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?

Okay, yeah. That’s exactly what I was afraid of, and thanks for telling me. It’s as literally dystopian as I was had assumed. Great.

I used Hacker’s Keyboard for years and I loved it. A few years ago, I switched to Dvorak, and the Dvorak implemention in Hacker’s Keyboard is weird and awkward to use (I think, anyway). I’ve been using HeliBoard recently, which is still pretty new; it’s a fork of OpenBoard which is no longer maintained. I think as long as HeliBoard keeps working as well as it has been, I’ll keep using it forever, honestly. I would say it’s basically like getting to have Gboard except also FOSS.

Lol.

I’m quite a bit older than you think and even more naïve, I promise.

Are you afraid of becoming addicted? Or just that they won’t give you pills when you need them?

Kinda both, although more so the latter, tbh.