I love the Dells I use. They're wonderful little workhorses, and I got a pretty good deal as they used to mine chia cryptocurrency.
Not my thing, but none of my business.
It wouldn't be such a big deal if you weren't facing immense harassment for using these tools. I don't blame him for saying fuck it. If the code works, and has been reviewed/modified/approved by a human, then who cares.
I'm fully in favor of using the power of the state to regulate AI data centers so that they're not exploitative to local resource limitations. I'm fully in favor of rewriting copyright law from the ground up for the modern era, to the extent that I think copyright should exist at all. I'm in favor of researching model-human interactions and assessing well-being of users and coming up with some forms of agency-respecting safeguards. I'm more than fully in favor of reigning in billionaire corporations whose only motive is profit and taxing the ever-loving shit out of them.
What I'm not in favor of us restricting the technology as a whole or acting like its use or even its very existence is a moral failure. I'm not in favor of stripping agency from adults because you think you know what's best for them.
I know it wasn't your point, but I'd like to add that when some rightoid inevitably tries to give the impression they care about "a black woman being held back" and how racist the Democrats are it's imperative we ignore them. They're only trying to use our empathy against us with superficial grievances.
I can believe it for their best developers.
What would worry me is this being true for their middle and low tier developers.
AOC is the moderate compromise at this point, IMO. I like her quite a bit, but I'd happily vote and fight for anyone campaigning on Nuremberg-style trials for every appointed federal official in this administration and every ICE agent deployed in the last year.
I don't believe it at all, but I will still hope it. Hope you get to rub it in my face some day lol.
HIPPO violation smh
You are on the right path. Most stuff people self host requires very little horsepower. Most of your CPU will be idle in the end. Things might get expensive if you want to add a lot of storage, but the good news is that can be added later as you need it. I think you'll be surprised just how much a modern-ish laptop can host.