I'm suffering withdrawal symtoms! I've nothing to read while eating my breakfast! :(

All too often! And in a similar vein, never put that 'important item' somewhere safe so that it doesn't get lost. You'll never see it again!

I found this link to the daily newsletter archive. Pheew! Suffering withdrawal symptoms from my daily tech fix! Our archive of The Insiders[^]

I've never liked using the touchpad on a laptop, I keep selecting or opening things! I've always used a variety of wireless mice, from a Microsoft one using rechargeable batteries to my current 'no-name' one that has a built-in rechargeable battery. It looks very similar to your bluetooth version. Anmck Wireless Silent Rechargeable Mouse for Laptop Computer PC,1600 DPI 3 Adjustment Levels Slim Mini Noiseless Cordless Mouse,10m Remote Range 2.4G Mice for Windows,MAC OS&Linux/Home/Office-Black : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories[^]. In answer to the original question, just buy a wireless/bluetooth mouse. Don't pay too much, though, and see how you feel. I think mice are a very personal thing so you'll need try different shapes until you find one you're comfortable with.

Even more so when I'm only a 71 year old 'hobbyist' programmer swiming with the big fish! I love programming and I'm always trying to write 'difficult' (to me) programs. It keeps the brain healthy (I hope!).

On my Windows 10 laptop I use my own VB net player based on VLC. On my Android devices I use a very basic URL based player called 'CustomRadioPlayer RadioStream App'. It's very, very simple but works!

Internet radio. I have two stations I've listened to for years: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio and Morow.com.

I use the 'Print Edit WE' extension in Firefox which also allows editing the page (removing ads, banners, or anything you don't need) before saving as PDF.

Good Grief! What a lot of youngsters! 1951 me, the best year yet!

Conway's Game of Life. I'd programmed it in the Tiny Basic, that was included in the ROM of my first home-made computer in the early 80s, and it ran so slowly that I learned 8080 assembler programming. My first 'real' language. I was hooked!

I'm using the Community version of VS2017. 1. Yes. Using the installer you can add and remove items. I normally program Visual Basic but I now want to have a go at some Android programming using Xamamrin. Just check the box, the installer says it needs another 22Gb, click Go to start the install! 2. Yes. I can remember the actual command line (Google it!) but it will download all the files to a designated directory. It will be quite large! 3. To alter your installation just go back to the Installer and check or uncheck the changes you need. The installer tells you how much space is needed or will be released. I moved up from VS2010 and was a bit daunted by this new method. I spent quite a while in a Virtual Box Window 7 machine testing everything out before doing it on my main machine. It took a few goes until I'd got it right!

Yep. Version 5.4.5. Very old now but quick and clean.

Total self-taught. Built my first desktop computer in 1978 and started by writing 8080 hex code. Progressed through to assembler, BBC Basic, Pascal to VB.Net. I could never get my head around all the C variants! Still keeping the Alzheimer's at bay at 66 by writing programs for myself and family.

Actually you'd enter the 'Twilight Zone'.

I've written a program to play internet radio streams using an embedded Windows Media Player. It works fine but sometimes the title of the track currently playing is wrong. e.g. "Emerson, Lake and Palmer" will be displayed as "Emerso" - the string being terminated at the character before the first comma. I use

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.currentMedia.getItemInfo("Title")

to get the title information and if it doesn't contain a comma, it's fine. I'm guessing this is a problem with WMP as using the standalone program shows the same error. Is there any way around this problem or can someone suggest another media player I could embed to play radio streams?

Transam Triton. Practical Electronics Magazine project from 1978. Built from components based around an 8080 processor and running Tiny Basic with a character based screen. After building it I was hooked! I re-designed it around an 8085 processor adding a 'fancy' video around a new Texas Instruments chip and writing a load of machine code graphics routines. Eventually went BBC Computer then PC. Great fun!

In many other projects I've seen textboxes, say, where the very long string has been truncated with three dots added to show that it has been trimed - (This is a very long ...). I assumed this was a feature of .NET. It doesn't seem to be, though. Has anyone got any suggestions as to the best way of doing this?