My beautiful life with too many remotes
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After waking up each morning and lying in bed, looking at my phone for way too long, I’ll finally gather the courage to get up. I’ll reach over to my bedside table and pick up the light remote (1), sliding the lights on, then changing the color from magenta to white and turning it up to maximum brightness.
I’ll go downstairs, grab the universal remote for the living room TV (2) and turn on First Take while I drink coffee. I’ll head back upstairs to my office and wake up my laptop using my Bluetooth trackpad (3). I’ll play Wordle, entering each guess with my Bluetooth keyboard (4), and then it’s time to shower, get dressed, and get out of the house.
I live in the suburbs, so if I want to go anywhere, that means driving, which means…
