A Crummy Commercial

I use an old Toshiba 17 inch laptop. mine looks kinda like this except for a binder clip holding the screen on the left   It runs Windows 10 and works fairly well.  It's not a speed demon, I wouldn't want to use it for editing large documents or editing video but it's all right for browsing and light document editing.  Also it runs the PIC programming software and the circuit board design software I use just fine. And I'm used to it, especially the keyboard and the touchpad.  Maybe it's the mythical muscle memory but when I move to a different computer (I have a Thinkpad as a backup) it just isn't the same.  I waste a lot of time correcting typing mistakes and the cursor doesn't quite move the same way.  Also I like the bigger 17 inch screen compared to the 15.5 inch or smaller laptops. But I may have to change for a couple of reasons:  First, the future death of Windows 10 support.  This Toshiba doesn't have the right internals to pass the Window...

 And yes, I am undoubtedly misapplying a sub-atomic scale idea to human scale realities so I won't try to define the term, entropy.  But it really irks me that things break or wear out or are hard to fix.  Evidence is littered all around me, the unmovable automobiles, unrideable bicycles, broken appliances, battery operated stuff with so much battery leakage that it's hard to get the door off the battery compartment. And there's not much I can do about preventing it.  That's the way the universe seems to work. But one positive thing I can do to combat this concerns kits.  I really try to provide continuing support for the kits, I still have repair parts for most of them.  I've always put my call on the circuit boards so anyone with access to a search engine should be able to contact me by email even if they don't know what the item is. I generally like to try and fix things via an email conversation.  Often a high-resolution picture of the non-working ...