As someone who deals with Windows software and mobile apps of dubious provenance at a BYOD workplace:

• Get a separate device with sufficient horsepower to handle whatever work, school, etc. throws at it. Used ThinkPads and unlocked Google Pixels are a good bet.
• Pick a small and light laptop if you also need to have your primary one on hand. Preferably, both can use the same USB-C charger.
• Use that device for work-related things and nothing else. Assume it is compromised.
• Connect to a separate access point if you need to use it at home.

If a phone or tablet (preferably with GrapheneOS) will suffice, go for it:

• Recent Android and iOS versions have much stronger sandboxing than PCs and laptops in general. Spyware can still do a lot on mobile devices, but not nearly as comprehensively as on PCs and laptops.
• i.e. Commercial spyware can easily plant rootkits and kernel-level trackers on a laptop, but this would be much harder on an up-to-date mobile device.
• For Android devices that support it, limit work and MDM apps to a secondary profile and close that profile when not actively using the phone.
• Turn off cellular, wifi, bluetooth, and location when not actively in use.

If the offender is your partner, practice good digital hygiene, never let them touch your devices, and good luck.

Biolinum O for desktop

Liberation Mono for terminal

Agree with most of the other posts here. Some of the cheaper faucets I've come across have these miserable plastic valves that set you back $15 a pop and last only a year until they break. Then it either jams or water starts dripping.

That said, an Ikea faucet I got on sale for $20 five years ago still works like it did on day one. In fact, I got two more while it was still on sale, fearing it would break like the other cheap ones, but they're still sitting in their boxes under the sink.

I've done that a few times to reverse tether Android phones and tablets

Mouse cord getting caught on things. Makes me want to yank it forcefully.

Would like to, but never figured out how to get the TPM 1.2 chip in my X230 to work with cryptsetup. Everything seems to be written for TPM 2.0 only.

QR code reader and generator on both phone and laptop

• Phone: SecScanQR
• Laptop: ZBarCam and Zint

But I'm glad to have learned about LocalSend here so I'm no longer limited to short text snippets

What did it in were the semi-annual mandatory feature updates, which restored the invasive settings and bloat I worked hard to remove. Already being acquainted with Linux at that point, I began dual-booting and later having Windows on an entirely separate machine for a few stubborn programs I needed for work.

What made me acquainted with Linux was looking for alternatives after the loss of theming options and the start menu in Windows 8. That eventually brought me to my present Debian setup with the Chicago 95 theme, which recreates (and even improved) the workflow and stability I had grown to love in Windows 2000.

The first time I ever booted into a Linux iso, however, was to migrate files off of my machine, which was excruciatingly slow to transfer files under XP.

Middle mouse click is indispensable but it seems to be first to fail on my mice

To make it clear, I would still use Linux with GNOME/libadwaita over Windows any day. Yes, some themes are ridiculous and will be a nightmare for any developer to work around. That said, I can't help but be concerned about the coming demise of theming with the way GTK is going.

What first pushed me to start exploring Linux was when Windows 8 forced the Metro theme down our throats. My time with Linux would have started three years later if M$ had kept Windows 7 theming options - that's how important a customizable, sensible theme is to me.

I'm glad that I don't have to do that again since there are DE options that do insist on keeping theming alive.

On a file share, a notes directory with each category as a subdirectory, and plain text files for each note. Accessible from my computers and phone.

On my laptop, the launcher for my text editor (Pluma) points to a bash script that creates a blank text file YYYYMMDD_text in ~/.drafts and opens that file with Pluma. If it already exists, YYYYMMDD_text_1, or whatever increment is created. That's mostly to take advantage of Pluma's autosave feature, which only works with already saved documents. Then I save the document to the file share if it's worth keeping.

First experimented when Windows 8 took away Aero Glass and other customizations. Committed when I had to fight with Windows 10's twice-yearly feature updates that messed with my settings and wasted space with new programs I didn't ask for. I now keep a separate laptop just to run Windows when I have to.

Distrohopping was mostly confined to my first year using Linux. Deepin (kept crashing) -> UbuntuDDE (went unmaintained) -> Arch Linux -> Debian. Settled on Debian Stable since it just works, I haven't been using bleeding-edge hardware, and I don't like things changing around too often (see my Chicago95 rice).