Running a mongo database, an express server in VSCode with nodejs, the Angular app, also in VSCode with nodejs and the browsers proved a bit difficult for my existing (and ooold) refurbed Dell latitude. It might have been the last windoofs update that brought it to bay, too. I don’t know.

Thank you for the wargames, I am going to try my hand.

Thank you all for your suggestions, I will have a look at used thinkpads or tuxedos. Scratches never bothered me.

You are all very helpful!

Reddid was / is a lot more lively, with enough posts in a day that I had to turn off notifications. Lemmy has not as many users around the world, and subocribing to a lot of communities does not equal reddit traffic at all.

I feel this is restful, and it offers the opportunity to learn new stuff. Also, by subscribing to different communities on different instances, you mix it up and make everything link together more tightly.

There might be a future when you have to currail your subscriptions, but just now, you are doing everything right.

Yea, I was really sad when my then-current provider did not offer Usenet access.

Actually, being able to group or sort instances hierarchically like rec.books.whatever might be helpful in organizing all these discussions. Currently this feels like alt.everything. When lemmy grows further, this maght become even more confusing.

My attention span is shot, too, but I mostly blame my stressed-out lifestyle. If I try to read a book, I fall asleep on the first two pages and can’t remember a word I read before I nodded off. But the few times aactually succeeded in sitting down with a book, I was absolutely surprised how relaxing it was reading from paper and not from a screen. There is a peace in paper I don’t find on a phone.