MalReynolds

At that level (of age), choices come into play.

The usual paradigm for dev estimates is double the number, bump the units.

1 hour -> 2 days.

servicing your own car or modifying the exhaust on your motorcycle (teenagers here didn’t have cars in the first place, actually)

Today’s equivalent is building your own ebike, and it’s awesome and way easier than rebuilding an engine.

or as it goes,

mice lie and monkeys exaggerate

It seems likely that simulated testing (in a computer) will be mature by 2050, it’s under development now.

You should be fine on gOS for 6 yrs+, which is how long google promised to keep up with security updates. The device tree (think hardware drivers), which is what google removed with pixel 10 is what is causing grief, is already there for lower pixels. Unless, of course, google comes up with some new fuckery to invalidate the usability of the security updates (pray I don’t alter the deal further…)

Annual rentseeking incoming, 3.2.1…

It’s PCIe 4.0 :(

Boo! Silly me thinking DDR5 implied PCIe5, what a shame.

Feels like they’re testing the waters with Halo, hopefully a loud ‘waters great, dive in’ signal gets through and we get something a bit fitter for desktop use, maybe with more memory (and bandwidth) next gen. Still, gotta love the power usage, makes for one hell of a NAS / AI inference server (and inference isn’t that fussy about PCIe bandwidth, hell eGPU works fine as long as the model / expert fits in VRAM.

Pretty sure that’s a x4 PCIe slot (admittedly PCIe 5x4, but not many video cards speak PCIe5), would totally trade a usb4 for a x8, but these laptop chips are pretty constrained lanes wise.

I have a similar setup on my laptop, a docker searxng (well podman rootless, but near enough) locked into a gluetun instance. Works fine, simple to set up, sucks less than any individual search engine and is usefully configurable, but I’m on linux, I expect there’s more pain for windows (linux might be a use for the spare computer…). It’s not resource intensive. Gluetun let’s you expose a local port for searxng and you just point your browser at https://192.168.x.x:8192 or whatever, no need to worry about exit IP. Gluetun is well used and has a focus on avoiding leaks, plenty of eyes on the code, I’ve never had any problems.

You can wireguard (or tailscale or whatever) into your home network and use it on your phone too. Spin up a pihole for adblock while you’re at it. I say go for it…