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My CPU was mid range when I bought it five years ago and I use it process a 300gb+ database of price history. My day job is working jupyter notebooks hosted on raspberry pis. Not being able to process a 60000 row database is definitely a skill issue. Bad hardware should encourage good software.
I am absolutely of the opinion that good software is far more important than good hardware. Unfortunately modern hardware is so good that inefficient software gets a free pass.
Don't get me wrong, they're idiots.
But people are drastically underestimating how shitty government laptops are.
But what do I know? What's decades of direct experience when someone online has a Jupiter laptop?!
Clearly you know more than anyone who actually deals with it
Speaking of, it's my mom's b'day coming up, you clearly know more than me so what would a thoughtful and bespoke gift be?
Flowers, her favorite unless her favorite is roses then go for something nice and in season. If you have the time bake her homemade cookies as well.
Get her a Thinkpad with 64 GB of ram and a server-class CPU that blasts enough heat to make the laptop hover. That's what I had the last time I worked on a project for the government. Company took it back though 😞
Idk. If it's your mum that you take after, you can get her nothing and let her make the excuses for your failure.