My personal use devices are all some variation of Pingu (eg. iPingu, Pingtendo etc.), and my NAS devices are based off Pokémon puns (Storlax and Archivysaur currently).

My wife on the other hand is boring, so her’s are just system default.

I don’t want to be that guy, regardless of my username!

Gold is probably going to be the easiest intermediary for you to travel with, it’s a pretty good hedge against inflation - but it has been on a bit of a tear lately; so there’s always a risk of pullback.

Alternatively, you can exchange part of your current savings into your target country’s currency? (There will be caps on how much you can travel with, so research that first).

Might be worth seeing if you can buy/invest in Gov’t bonds in your target country, or open up a bank account and deposit the funds into a high-yield savings account or term-deposit.

Lastly, there is always crypto - but that’s probably even more volatile than what the US would be over the next few months.

Unrelated, but what’s the source show for this meme?

It’s been more of a pain in the arse than initially expected.

Most motherboards (for example) only have 2-4 USB-C ports, meaning that I still need to employ A-C and C-C cables for peripherals etc.

My main gripe is that the standard just tries to do too many things without clear delineation/markings:

1. Is it a USB 2.0 (480Mbit), 5Gbit, 10Gbit or 20Gbit cable? Can’t really tell from the plug alone.

2. More importantly, for charging devices: How the heck do I determine maximum wattage I can run?

For all its faults, at least the blue colour of a USB-3.0 plug (or additional connectors for B/Micro) made it easy to differentiate !

Now I’m eyeing up a USB Cable tester just to validate and catalogue my growing collection! 🤦🏻‍♂️