Wanted to repurpose an old Surface Pro as a music station in my shed (think tech moan vibes). Basically a nice touch interface to access my NAS where I’ve ripped my CD collection, with an slim external dvd-writer for actual CDs and I also planned to use it for Spotify.

Spent many hours looking at different distros, but getting the touchscreen, Bluetooth and drivers working was not easy. In the end I reverted to windows 11 with de-bloat, and it works great.

At Uni. I’d bought a 64MB MP3 USB player which replaced my mini disc player that got stolen. When buying I hadn’t realised how useful it would be for transfering uni work. Plus the uni had a fast connection so we could torrent MP3s real quickly (before they finally woke up and properly locked their machines and network down).

This was the fellow!

https://ebay.io/m/xgXpwb