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My advice would be to build with what you know.

Even if you need to really shoehorn a component of the system in, just make a note about it and keep building. When you're done, you can go back and focus on replacing that one piece.

My view is that you learn a lot through the process of building this way.

Sansa Clip 1 GB from 2008 still going strong here. I use it to listen to podcasts with wired earbuds while going on walks.

I love the physical buttons and simple lcd screen for status.

I do wish I had purchased one that accepted a microSD card like yours though.

Kindle is another example of a single-tasking device I enjoy using.

As someone whose desktop is showing its age and no longer games much, I'm curious about your build machine.

Do you have a physical build machine? Or in the cloud? And did you build it or order it from somewhere?

A few years ago I realized my days all kind of blurred together.

So I started journaling. I eventually built a good habit of doing it once a week. Every week, I read the previous entry and then write a new entry. Around the end of the year, I go back and read the whole year.

I prefer to use a physical journal with nice paper and a decent pen.

It has been very transformative for me. I write about my experiences and I write about what I read. I also write about what changes I want to make, and reflect on how changes I wanted to make are going.

Reviewing my thoughts in this way has led me 1) to be more forgiving of myself, focusing more on growth instead of failure and 2) to make incremental progress on objectives I have.

I purchased a few solo key 2s but have ended up pretty disappointed. Keys ended up being delivered with bent usb connectors which worries me that they will break prematurely.

And the documentation, at least when I received the keys, felt incomplete and hard to find; it did not give me confidence in the product.

I still use them as a backup key, but I decided to just by two yubikeys as my main keys.

and have already removed your authorization with the Bank directly

Can you expand on what you mean by this?

My banks don't offer me some way to revoke authorization from the bank's website. Does this mean calling customer service and giving them a business name to disallow future ach debits from?

I agree. I built a journaling habit by scheduling time for it every week. Sometimes I just don't feel like it and scribble something down. But sometimes even when I start with just a scribble, I keep going and it helps me to think through thoughts in my head.

Might depend on what you eat but when I first started flossing, the gunk that I saw being removed was enough to convince me that flossing was a good idea.

It may depend a lot on the tightness between your teeth, for example, how beneficial it is?