While I like gardening, unironically advising people to grow their own food to cut costs is just bonkers.
It takes months to grow anything, and given the limited space, you can't grow much anyway. You'll be lucky to grow 20€ worth of food on your balcony while spending hours doing the gardening. That's not cost effective.
But I want clear black and white distinctions and outrage!!!
I still don't understand, why this is seemingly no problem in any other application.
Desktops, servers and even some chonkier laptops manage to work with regular (SO)DIMMs just fine.
If hardware/budget allow it, you might want to throw in a cheap SSD and some more RAM. Something like 50€ could greatly improve usability.
It's not gatekeeping, but a frustration about a new generation coming to an obvious conclusion, that they already had.
Ukrainian infiltrators started the fires using the jewish space lasers the Americans are raving about!
(It's actually frightening, that only the reasonable part of that sentence is made up)
Most people (public and private) never go beyond disapproval, though.
You'll hear people complain about this and that, but never even looking for an alternative.
And I have yet to encounter a single smug vegan. Not online, not offline.
But I've seen countless people like you fighting the just fight against vegan windmills (awesome Rügenwalder double reference for the German people here).
So where exactly are those vegans? Are they in the room with us right now? Or are you defining every mere mentioning of veganism as an attack because you deep down are afraid of actually having to confront the cognitive dissonance you're living under?
Can't or won't?
Seriously, though, I wouldn't be surprised, if a bunch of suicides or "retractions" are happening soon.
How about 2 million if you shut up? No? How about we publish this dirt on you? Would be a shame, if some nameless robber orphans your children.
"Self-inflicted". If you don't comply, we'll break your computer, and that's your fault. Why did you make us do that???
16 years ago was 2008 (which is shocking in itself, I'm old), SSL was seen as very very optional until 2013, when Snowden dropped his CIA/NSA leaks.
I wouldn't be surprised, is the security is "trust me, bro".
You can get away with very little supplies, actually. Basically just a small shovel, the rest be salvaged.
Pots can be made from old plastic bins/containers, soil/fertilizer can be made from food waste using worms, seeds can be made from surprisingly many fruits/vegetables. Pumpkin seeds are right inside the pumpkin, potatoes and beans can be put right into the soil, even tomatoes can be grown from store bought ones.
And while it's a really cool hobby: you're right regarding the cost effectiveness. Unless you happen to have a significant plot of land, it won't make a dent in your grocery bill.