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  • My daily driver is a 10yo Dell business laptop. Before that I ran a similarly aged Lenovo. I run mint.

    In my experience, the amount of ram and an SSD are the biggest contributors to how good the performance feels. Running mint on 4G is possible, but performance is comprised. 8G is perfectly fine most of the time. 16G (my current setup) is peachy keen. I’m astounded what I can do in blender on a 10yo machine.

    That said, if you can afford one (and they operate in your country - they don’t here), then grab a framework, like others have said. If that’s not an option, then add some ram and an SSD.

    My 2c.







  • Perhaps I’m too tired to understand your meaning here (it’s late), but blockchain isn’t crypto currency. It’s a distributed ledger, and was around long before crypto. It’s not completely immutable either as the hard fork of Ethereum proved.

    Blockchain could be used to record energy transactions, but the question is why would you want to? What benefit does it add?

    Btw homeowners in parts of Australia are already receiving credits for the excess solar power they generate. There’s no need to manufacture a new system to enable that functionality.

    Once again, I’m tired. Perhaps I’ve misunderstood your reasoning.



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    I’m bridging my main Mastodon account with bluesky, but I’m fully expecting this service to disappear soon enough. I remember when Twitter, Facebook, and a bunch of other sites allowed crossposting until someone realised they were driving traffic away from their own site and shut it down. I think it was Facebook. I can’t remember. Same is likely to happen here, or they’ll charge an exorbitant fee for API access like Reddit. For now though, it kinda works.