and i’ll take your gateway, as it would be a massive upgrade to my 2023 edition Kindle Paperwhite

he could have pressed the shortcut for the magnifier (windows+plus). if the shortcut doesn’t turn it off, you can find it in the accessibility menu

keyboard layout? i might be able to help if i know what he could have pressed. (and hey, at least it’s not perpetual windows narrator)

It might be a bug from the update, in which case it will probably be patched soon. Something similar happened to me, and it stopped after a day or so.

There are ways to retrieve deleted data from phones and USBs, but I wouldn’t worry too much, mostly because the software you can get usually just recovers photos.

It probably won’t be too great for the speaker, since it also has a magnet, but it’s probably not gonna affect the performance too much. You might still want to get a usb extension though, just to be safe

Install tor, it blocks your search history and data from basically everything.

Probably disconnect from the internet for now?

JBL is a pretty good brand, and they’re not too expensive, either. good sound quality and comfort.