I used Vuze for a bit back in the day, it was a resource hog on whatever I was running it on. I think I mostly stuck with uTorrent until switching to the open source alternatives.
I actually use all three you mentioned in different contexts.
In 2003 or so, I was really amused by the ORLY owl memes, so I collected them and stuck them in a public directory on my webserver. I have no idea how it was found, but at some point my open directory got indexed by google.
I found out because my host emailed me saying I had hit my bandwidth quota for the month... 2 days into said month. So digging through logs I found the biggest offenders, there were forums where people linked just about every image I had.
A little htaccess magic later, any request that came from a non-allowist referer was instead served a rather crude message I quickly put together in MS paint.
No one contacted me about it, but it was amusing watching these threads where people were getting upset when they thought they were going to see funny owl pics.
I booted this on my 486 back in the day. That machine had a combo soundcard/modem which gave me fits when I upgraded to a 33.6 later on (Plug and Play, haha. At least I learned how to deal with IRQ conflicts). QNX booted and recognized everything and it just worked, and so fast.
Also keep in mind that at this time, getting Linux working was a crapshoot, I had already attempted and failed to get it running on the same machine, making the QNX disk seem even more amazing.
This one was one of those weird experiments I tried as a teen and was pretty surprised that it worked. A buddy was staying over and we both had our PCs setup on our dining room table. I don't recall the exact year, but 95-96 probably.
My family had two phone lines (necessitated by my obsession with the Internet), so we started playing Doom in modem mode (one pc connected to the kitchen phone line, and a 50ft cable going to my bedroom). At one point i decide to try the direct connection. ATDT one end, ATA the other (i think the caller init string needed something to tell it to ignore the lack of dialtone) and it worked! At that point we restarted our game in serial mode. I hadn't thought of this in ages.
I got my own apartment while I was still in HS, my apartment become sort of a perpetual lan party. Friends would often just leave their machines setup at my place while they went to work or school.
All machines were initially connected via coax ethernet, all sharing one 28.8 dialup connection.
A house like this was basically the most amazing thing any of us could have imagined back then.
Absolutely. Before I was WFH full time, I tended to buy whatever chair seemed nice enough, but never spent over $200 USD. About a week after our companies WFH order I realized it was really causing discomfort after long work session. I went with a Secretlab gaming chair. Despite the "gaming" part, it's pretty solid and I've been very happy with it. Several friends and coworkers have purchased them on my recommendation and have been happy with them as well.
I let it write the boring stuff. Needed a python class to take an example dict, and generate a class that creates all the properties that map to the keys in said dict (I have a constraint preventing me from using something like json_dataclass or similar). While it's churning that out, I can focus on other things.
Also found its great for regex, I'm pretty good with writing these, but recently came across a pretty complex one in our codebase that wasnt commented. Pasted into GPT4 and asked it to explain it, it broke down each bit in detail, and in the end even generated an example string that would match it.
I prefer it. I will go out of my way to go to a store with self checkout vs one without. Probably due to anxiety/autism, but being able to remove the human element makes things much easier for me.
I actually use all three you mentioned in different contexts.