#maybe find a replacement graphics card too since that 1050ti is OLD

[the-peculiar-bi-tch]

one thing i've been meaning to try out is buy a thinkpad t480 that's like 12 years old and is being sold on ebay for scrap because something is broken, buy whatever parts are needed to get it working (screen, storage, memory, wifi-card, battery, whatever), and repair it myself. there's old thinkpads on ebay for like 40 bucks and manufacturers like crucial and kingston have pretty good prices on some quality products. that wouldn't fix the CPU being kinda bad by modern standards but like if you just gotta surf the web and do office work (or some hobby coding), they're great! AND you're automatically cooler than this rich asshole who thinks money = importance, because it sure don't stop him being wrong.

My solution for bloatware is this: by law you should hire in every programming team someone who is Like, A Guy who has a crappy laptop with 4GB and an integrated graphics card, no scratch that, 2 GB of RAM, and a rural internet connection. And every time someone in your team proposes to add shit like NPCs with visible pores or ray tracing or all the bloatware that Windows, Adobe, etc. are doing now, they have to come back and try your project in the Guy's laptop and answer to him. He is allowed to insult you and humilliate you if it doesn't work in his laptop, and you should by law apologize and optimize it for him. If you try to put any kind of DRM or permanent internet connection, he is legally allowed to shoot you.

With about 5 or 10 years of that, we will fix the world.