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yeah, most "gamer" culture inspires absurdly wasteful habits, spec porn, etc. so that's probably not in alignment, and the windows tax is no joke either - it's

yeah, most "gamer" culture inspires absurdly wasteful habits, spec porn, etc. so that's probably not in alignment, and the windows tax is no joke either - it's delicious that their mondo data hoovering burns up your own cpu cycles, but neither here nor there. that said, i'm still using an amd phenom II x4 bought in 2010 and manage hacking on clojure, golang, and odds and ends fairly well as a software consultant. arch, xmonad, emacs, and firefox are my "stack". similar to you, i also have a macbook air from 2013 for meet and zoom (and non cloud iphone backup :) ), so not quite as old as this person but certainly don't need a new one any time soon. love the blog btw

awinter-py 6y ago
thank you! yeah, that old mac air is really pulling its weight IMO the web stack is best on old hardware -- it's designed to handle massive load at scale and has the most attention to pure build tool performance when I was pure web dev, I could use just the linux laptop too.
- photojosh 6y ago
  > Anything for editing videos. Probably blender. I got my now-high school kid an old Macbook Air (made sure to get 8GB RAM) for US$300. He's been experimenting with Blender and video editing (FCPX, make sure to render proxy files!) Sure, that's "only" 7 years old, but it's fine?