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Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal (www.404media.co)
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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

Older refurbished Thinkpads are a good and cheap way to go. They save a ton of compatibility headaches which only eat time. Linux is very economical on hardware resources. Or, just use an old pc. I work as a programmer and my main PC is 15 years old now.