People are gonna pillory me for this, but flashlights.

First off, you want something that runs off two AAAs, regardless of price. If you can’t walk into any gas station, or any grocery store, or what have you, and buy batteries for your flashlight when it dies, it’s not gonna matter how bright it was before it died. You also don’t want anything brighter than ~200 lumens at the very most, unless you actually need one brighter, for some reason; they drain batteries way faster. You want something thin enough that you’re able to clip it inside your pocket and forget it’s there. You also want one that has an end switch that toggles between two modes: “full power” and “turned off.” If you have one that toggles between low and high settings, you will only use the high setting. If you have one that toggles between low and high settings, and strobe and SoS, you will only use the high setting. Every additional step in between “all the way off” and “all the way on” is just friction you don’t need, that will do nothing but piss you off every time you use the damned thing.

The features that make big, fancy flashlights expensive, are anti-features.

Oof. Yeah, I don’t use my computer for work, so I’d never even thought of that. That’s annoying.

[ Insert “I see this as an absolute win!” meme here ]

Vim’s keybinds are intuitive and Nano’s keybinds are completely unusable, if you’re asking me. I cannot use Nano without becoming horribly frustrated immediately. The reason “how to exit Vim” is a meme, is because everyone’s been there, one time. The difference is that you never stop not knowing how to exit Nano. I also hate Emacs’ default keybinds, but that’s mostly because I don’t want carpal tunnel syndrome, so that’s a different issue; Emacs’ keybinds actually do make some amount of sense, in all honesty, even though they’re objectively dangerous. Gun to my head, I could probably, technically “use” vanilla Emacs albeit with some difficulty. I cannot possibly use Nano and I would rather get shot.

Subject-object-verb or object-subject-verb?

FUTO Keyboard.

NixOS diehard.

I feel like maybe it’s worth mentioning that NixOS doesn’t have this problem. Please don’t pillory me. Anyway.

Yes, good and/or bad and/or otherwise. It’s gonna get weird.

The machine I had before this had 4 GB, lol. That’s why I put so much of the budget into RAM when I built this one.

Shaving what little hair I have left on my head is so much more convenient, lol.

Okay, fine. I have 192 GB of RAM.

I can remember saving my allowance for however long I had to, to be able to get the game I wanted, and then riding my bike to Walmart, or the used game store, or wherever it was, and then riding home with a stupid grin on face. I feel bad for kids who will grow up to be adults who won’t have memories like that.

This is amazing.

I hate having any more tabs open than I absolutely need. Right now, I have none. I’m probably gonna either fire up a YouTube video or find someone to watch on Twitch here in a minute, at which point I’ll have one tab open. I’m not gonna say exactly how much RAM I have, but I have as much RAM as my motherboard will take, so I can definitely afford to open more than one tab. I just don’t see any reason to, frankly, and it drives me up the wall.