Technology
Windows 8 was correct. Metro was correct. Microsoft saw convergence before anyone and got laughed off the stage for it. Fifteen years later Valve and Google are eating the lunch Microsoft left on the counter.
640,000 hostile requests, Claude hacking BSD and FFmpeg, and the expensive realization that my router is on borrowed time.
I wanted a wireless keyboard and ended up finding the factory behind half the brands on AliExpress.
I bought a Lenovo V14 out of desperation, built a desktop two years later, and somehow the laptop is still working. It just changed jobs.