Gamepad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThis was brought to mind when I had to hook up a powered USB hub last night, because I ran out of USB ports on my computer (and my computer has 8 USB ports of its own!).<\/p>\n
Is it… bad<\/em> that I have so much crap attached to my computer? Or is it normal these days to have dozens of USB peripherals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It occurred to me last night, as I hooked up some new gadgets to my computer, that I have… an obnoxious amount of USB peripherals. Keyboard Regular mouse Trackball mouse Printer iPod Memory Card reader IR receiver for the Windows Media Center remote control External hard drive Bluetooth adapter USB headphone\/headset Gamepad This was brought… Continue reading USB Madness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[388],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","tag-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-gr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6045,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2024\/02\/10\/the-switching-saga\/","url_meta":{"origin":1019,"position":0},"title":"The Switching Saga","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I work from home full time, and for most of that time I've used my own personal computer for doing my work - 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