Too many hobbies, not enough focus
i Retro Handhelds Series This is a continuation of my Retro Handhelds series. Read Part III here. By the end of 2025 I had finished exploring sub-$100 handhelds and it was time to turn to the higher end. My 2022 Retroid Pocket 3+ was my most capable handheld, and it was fine, but I didn’t …
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i Retro Handhelds Series This is a continuation of my Retro Handhelds series. Read Part II here. Out of the Hobby Most of 2023 was quiet save for an impulse purchase of yet another Analogue Pocket, this time in transparent green. I could not resist even though I wasn’t using any of my handhelds regularly at that …
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i Retro Handhelds Series This is a continuation of my Retro Handhelds series. Read Part I here. It’s 2020, I’m a PC gamer, and had long since discarded every console except my Wii and PS3. The Wii is plugged into our TV “just in case” but we never play it and the PS3 is up …
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If you follow display technology, you probably "know" that "OLED is best". It has the deepest, most "inky" blacks, fast response rates, vivid colors, and makes HDR look uhh-uhhh-mazing. OLED screens show up in smart phones, watches, gaming consoles, and high-end TVs. They're now becoming common in laptop and desktop displays: already available on PCs …
I bought my first dedicated gaming PC in 2014 and replaced it after numerous upgrades in late 2023. I intentionally kept it around so that the boys could use it for light gaming as its GeForce RTX 2070 is still capable at 1080p even in modern games. The boys were generally iPad gamers, but occasionally …
After purchasing a Keychron K6 from eBay to test it out, I learned a lot about what I wanted and didn’t want in a keyboard. I’ve settled on another Keychron model, this time a K8 in the Pro series. The Pro series has better stabilizers for large keys like space and shift, better keys with …
After I read Shift Happens I had a hankering for keyboards. I pulled my 1988-era Apple Desktop Bus keyboard out of my museum, plugged it into my ADB-USB Wombat adapter, and began enjoying the experience of retro mechanical keyboarding. As I continued on in the book, I became interested in modern mechanical keyboards and all …
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