[johnwalkr]

Apple AirPods. They’ve been a pleasure to use unlike any other headphones I’ve had. The way the automatically pair to all my devices works well and the method of choosing which device is connected is well-thought-out.

Apple Watch is also well-designed. It doesn’t try to do too much, and every feature has become well-implemented over the years. For example, it used to be a slow and annoying process to load music onto it. In recent watchOS I never have to think about it, whatever I’ve been listening to recently is there automatically and ready to send to my AirPods. But the feature I use most and which was the reason I bought one is Apple Pay, specifically that in Japan it supports mobile Suica for riding public transportation. Since the underlying technology for Apple Pay has been used in Japan for a long time, many businesses including almost every convenience store and even some vending machines supported it out of the gate.

“Helper” brand 65W USB-c charger. I can’t find it online anymore, presumably because it’s unsafe like many chargers. However, for $30 it has 1 USB-c port, 2 USB-a ports and compact adapters for most countries’ power outlets. It works for all of my devices including Nintendo switch and it’s dock (it uses a voltage which is often not implemented in USB-c chargers). I have 3, for home, work and my bag.

Raspberry Pi. It has some annoyances and I wish the design itself and processor selection was different. But, it was cheap enough and popular enough to arrive at the end result of amazing community support.