I've owned somewhere between 12 and 15 USB-C dongles over the past 5 years. Most of them are dead, collecting dust in a drawer I keep telling myself I'll clean out. The ones that survived? They're the ones I keep going back to, the
I bought a Kindle Paperwhite in 2022. I told myself it was for reading more. I read maybe three books the first year. But now, in 2026, the thing hasn't left my nightstand in months and I've finished 47 books this year alone. So yeah, e-readers
I spent two years refusing to buy a portable SSD. Copying files to USB sticks, uploading to cloud storage, emailing myself links ( like an animal ). Then I grabbed a Samsung T7 on sale and now I can not imagine going back. If you are still living without one, here is
I have owned exactly seven USB-C hubs in the last four years. Three of them are dead, two are collecting dust in a drawer, one intermittently disconnects my external monitor, and one actually works. That last one cost more than the other six combined. Cheap USB-C hubs are a trap,
I spent three months researching monitors before buying one. Read forums, watched YouTube comparisons, made spreadsheets. Then I plugged it in and realized none of that mattered. The monitor you have right now is probably fine. Here is why I think most people waste time and money on the wrong
I bought my first GaN charger two years ago and now I own five. Not because I'm a charger collector ( though that's basically what I've become ), but because once you go GaN you physically cannot go back to those brick-sized power adapters that ship
I have owned, lost, and destroyed more power banks than I care to count. The cheap ones died after three months. The expensive ones I left on airplanes. The ones with built-in cables seemed smart until the cables frayed and I was stuck carrying a brick with a useless nub
I spent two years bouncing between monitors like they were disposable. Buy one, hate it, sell it at a loss, repeat. Turns out most of my wasted time came from three specific screwups that nobody warned me about. Mistake 1: Ignoring Pixel Density I bought a 32-inch 4K monitor thinking
I have gone through more keyboards than I care to admit. Cheap rubber domes, fancy low-profile boards, even one of those split ergonomic things that made me feel like I was typing on two separate planets. After years of swapping, I landed on a setup that just works ( and no,
I have owned probably fifteen pairs of headphones in the last decade. Over-ears, in-ears, bone conductors, the lot. Most of them are gathering dust in a drawer somewhere in Montevideo. The problem with headphones is that everyone has an opinion, and most of those opinions come from people who listened