Just get an oldish SFF or USFF office computer cheap somewhere. It’s generally much cheaper and allows for upgrades if ram/ssd prices ever come down. Also somewhat new Intel CPUs are quite good for transcoding.

I can understand your stance here, but for me living in the EU both the current memory cartel and CXMT are foreign entities. And while one has proven themselves to be “evil” the other has not. So in a way that gives me a glimpse of hope.

I really hope they start dominating the field in the coming years.

For me it has to be Compliance (2012). It’s a masterpiece but it’s so disturbing that I never want to see it again, and would never recommend it to anyone.

I wish I didn’t see this article, but if you feel like losing all faith in the future of humanity for the fifteenth time today, here you go.

In most countries by the age of 6 or 7 most kids would be in school and sat in a chair for most of their waking hours. What sort of Captain Fantastic utopia with with sunshine, rainbows and developing muscles do you imagine contemporary childhood to be?

If by the age of 15, as the original comment suggested, a kid has never touched a screen they would be ostracised by their classmates and most likely have lasting trauma.

Of course it’s nice to spend weekends and holidays outside, but a blanket ban on screentime is something else completely.

Then again, parents are entitled to their own opinions and as I’ve said, it’s none of my business what these opinions are.

It’s none of my business how you decide to raise your children but I firmly believe screentime is not such a big deal. Engaging with corporate apps designed to be both addictive and extremely easy to use is.

I think giving a kid their own beater laptop with some linux distro to tinker with, break, learn how to type, play a few games, draw or whatever else interests them especially at an early age would help the child to engage with tech in a creative and productive way and not be afraid of messing with it.

My bet is that the most tech illiterate people that view LLMs and computers in general as some sort of magic are the most severely affected ones.