If touchscreens won, why am I buying buttons?

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The older and lazier I get, the easier I want my life. So when I discovered the Stream Deck+, a versatile little desktop controller with programmable buttons, built-in screens and rotary knobs, I knew I had to have one. If I'm not in the right browser tab, saying "Hey Yaffle, office aircon 24" works perfectly well, but it's just … More. Effort. Than ... Click.

I know, hardly difficult, but reduced friction all the same.

Turns out this is quite the rabbit hole. I'll spare you the sales pitch, but turning things on and off is just the start of it. One button became six, then a couple of folders, then a few pages. Oh, I appear to have accidentally built an entire dashboard. Or two. These days my Stream Deck+ monitors my CPU and GPU in real time, lets me recall preset room environments, and even controls my Home...

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