Find a skate shop and let your kid talk to a skater working there. Buy a skate key and any cheap trucks and bearings and see if they will show him how to replace them on his own.
Upsize your NAS drives. Get rid of external drives. Set up one nas to back up to the other, or pay for cloud backups. Synology cloud is relatively cheap.
I prefer console because: it just works. Devs don’t need to address bugs related to hardware, and they can tune their games for the performance of the console.
I don’t have a lot of free time so knowing it will work within seconds of hitting the power button is worth it to me.
I used to PC game, and still do for a few that are better with a mouse/keyboard.
I don’t hate on anyone that prefers a different gaming system.
Meshtastic. Be sure to set it up to not broadcast your precise position over the default channel.
Here is an example.
https://www.seeedstudio.com/sensecap-t1000-tracker