night before last i dreamt that i was taking a couch nap and i woke up next to an alligator, one of the big ones that look older than continents with tiny eyes from squinting into the distance, looking past eons of memories of birth and death, my tiny little life, too small for an old one like this to even see, but here they are, hugging me on my couch
Detachable junk sounds good in theory, but I can't help but feel that the plug-and-play approach is just asking for trouble. Forget about USB compatibility – I want something mounted on a threaded rod that I have to spend several minutes turning into place, and it makes an obtrusive squeaka-squeaka-squeaka noise the whole time because I'm a dumbass and forgot to lubricate it. I want something that needs to be seated and secured like the parallel data cable from a 1950s computer. I want something where removing it requires disengaging a series of four interlocking mechanical toggles, and I want each of those toggles to go ka-chunk.