I had to supplement my machine with cloud hosting and mainly work from the command line. I also need to say that my “actually pays the bills” work was done on

I had to supplement my machine with cloud hosting and mainly work from the command line. I also need to say that my “actually pays the bills” work was done on company computers, which were modern but not purchased by me. I play games on a video game console, so that was never an issue. I’m primarily a C++ programmer, so making software always worked well on a Pentium 4 and is developed in the terminal. GNU/Linux, of course, still runs great on this old system. The biggest issue had been that web browsing had become a chore. The bloat of the web is well established, and loading huge websites was out of the question. Ad-blocking has become more difficult but was absolutely necessary, not loading JavaScript makes many pages unreadable, and so on… I got to the point where the fun of extending the life of my old laptop needed to be balanced against my lack of free time. I also really started to consider that a raspberry pi would be more powerful and consume less power, that my machine was not a collector item, and that the “greenest” thing may be upgrading. Honestly, though my new machine is faster, I’m still not convinced that it provides me and added benefits or capability other than websites now working as intended. I think I was expecting more.