I bought an N100 mini that looks just like the Ars picture, but it's branded from Beelink as an S12Pro -- it does all of this and more. Mine is in the living room with the HDMI attached to my TV, but I RDP into it for most things. I installed WSL and and initially ran Plex from Docker, but switched to Windows native as it is simpler to setup and maintain.

The N100 doesn't support 64GB memory I believe.

Maxes out at 16GB IIRC. 64GB is in the small server space for Intel.

Middle class is shrinking; people in tighter economic situations can't afford hobbies?

It's an interesting history, better explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperament but in short, prior tuning systems were more mathematically correct, but an instrument would be tuned for a particular key and playing in other keys would sound (to us, anyway) like the instrument was out of tune.

But if a piece was written for a specific key and the instrument was tuned to that key for that piece, that would be both more mathematically correct and also matching the original intent of the composer? What is the rationale for equal temperament?

Seems possible from the technical side, but not so sure about the money part. if I'm following you correctly, XYZ.com would have shown an ad on their site and received, say 1 cent. With your service running, you visit XYZ.com, ad is replaced by a white box, and they receive, let's say 2 cents? If so, seems like efficient microtransactions will be a challenge.

That's the idea, the microtransactions will be taken care of by the existing ad networks and will end up in the aggregate payment from the network to the site. Sites effectively won't even know that it is happening.

There's a way to work in such an environment and not go crazy, but it will take time to get used to it. Think of it system with big asynchronous methods. You need to arrange your work to put in the slow running requests early, then focus on other things while waiting.

My nicer one is in the living room for end of the day games and such, but my older one is an always-on weather display.

I see agile as the problem here. Before agile, I would essentially 'own' pieces of the code, so I was committed to making it maintainable. Now, it's all just pieces and parts, and I'm not responsible for nearly as much, which make me fungible, and in general is dispiriting.

As a side note, I question the author's appeal to Marx as an authority.

> As a side note, I question the author's appeal to Marx as an authority.

Natural reference to make if you're writing about alienation from the product of one's labor.

Well, it's 8 bigger, isn't it?

I would have though SAG-AFTRA require all on-screen talent to be paid.

Age of the infected population?