The benefits of keeping old devices. Before we moved several years ago, I had several computers/laptops, storage devices and some other miscellaneous devices that I’d be able to use and actually benefit from if I had kept them.
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I have games that I can’t get working on either Linux or newer versions of Windows.
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Hard drives from old computers and laptops can be relatively cheaply converted into external hard drives and, while they wont be fast and possibly not reliable if used too much, they offer decent storage for the price.
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I often use smaller storage devices (like SD cards and MP3 players) for transferring files from one computer to another and I also like to use them as temporary storage to preserve my hard drives when I don’t need fast storage.
Another thing I wish I had known about, was just how quickly emulation would get good for older games. I’ve wasted so much money from buying older/retro consoles because I thought that emulation would stay as just a niche interest. Nowadays, while some games and systems are still iffy, you can emulate a wide variety of consoles and a lot of emulators even work well on some older and low end devices.
I sometimes listen to chiptune and some other similar genres. On top of some of the more well known stuff like the original Touhou Games and retro games like Silver Surfer, something more obscure is pre-Touhou IOSYS, not all of it’s chiptune but it’s close enough to what was asked for. I feel like I’m forgetting some others but all I can think of is more retro games that everyone has probably already heard of.