My other “dailies” include Rogule, Mazelle, and Hexcodle. Sometimes Decipher as well. Check them out!

As others have mentioned, there are no good BifL options. Based on what I gather from your post, your best option is probably getting 2nd hand devices and following behind by a few years. You can probably keep a 3-year-old device for 7 or 8 years (which is ages in the smartphone world), then “upgrade” to another 3-year-old device at that time.

For this, I’d recommend something popular like a Pixel. They have a number of options for alternative OSes (Graphene and LineageOS are both good options) and they’ve done well for me as long-term use phones.

I’ve bought my last couple phones on Swappa, and I’ve had no issues with any of them. Sold one on there too, and they’re pretty vigilant (they manually review posts before they can go public).

“Hey baby… wanna watch Netflix and dismantle the patriarchy?”

Crack Stuntman had this idea years ago

Yeah, I was referring to the incest.

Over the years, controllers have gotten more standardized and are generally well supported. I have a few, and have never had issues with them in Steam (both Mint and Manjaro).

I’ve gotten a few from 8bitdo and they’ve all been solid. If you have a favorite console from your childhood (or adulthood), they probably have one that resembles it.

For most of the games I play, I prefer to have the left stick above the d-pad (like the Xbox, as opposed to the PS). I also recommend getting a controller that has trigger throttles (similar to Xbox or GameCube), as those can be nice to have for many games. This one seems pretty good (I have an SN30 Pro, but don’t love the left stick position).

I was going to argue that it could go the other way, but then I remembered Ghengis Khan.

Or they named it after the Irish doctor who documented it, Men O’Pause.

You’ll get used to it with practice. It’s fine if you prefer to type differently, but you’ll probably hit a plateau with how efficiently you can type (or you’ll rely on looking at the keyboard, which is not ideal).

I just switch to the num pad. Also worth practicing on if you do a lot of typing.

I’ve been running Linux on my laptop for a few years now (started with Mint, on Manjaro now). I have our HTPC set up with Mint, and the family is good with it. When my kids are old enough for their own, I’ll probably keep them going with Mint as well, we’ll see.

My wife’s laptop still has Windows, but I’ll likely move her over if she gets a new PC at some point.

Looks good to me

Soy sauce, maybe some diced vegetables

Is there a KVM switch out there

Not that I’ve found. I have a similar setup (Thunderbolt dock with two monitors and two laptops). I think the single dock solution is enough for most people, so there’s not much financial incentive for people to make a bigger KVM switch.

2 workstations

Depends entirely on your expected use case. Would having two different PCs active at once be helpful for you? I don’t imagine it would be cheaper, but depending on your machine specs and desired performance, it could end up being cheaper (than having a dock that supports 4 displays and ensuring all your PCs can handle that through one port).

Slow down there, what’s wrong with good ol’ assembly?

All it takes is a little hypnosis and a bunch of LSD.

So he can practice his scales.

The real question: is it better or worse than Oreo Coke?

Hydration levels vary wildly by the moment

I usually move static assignments outside the DHCP range, but in general, most routers will avoid re-allocating it even if it’s within the DHCP range.