Apple products are generally the worst way to attempt to do anything with a computer. Drop the idea.

Honestly, I’m probably gonna crack away at some more Triangle Strategy. Crazy underrated.

A lot of people recommend Plex, which I’m sure is great, but if you want an actual Netflix GUI, Titan Bingie Mod for Kodi is the way to go. From what I understand about Plex, Titan Bingie on Kodi provides all of the same features.

Are you using the VPN locally on your device or router level?

Common sense still prevails. Don’t install obviously shady freeware. Something like GIMP or Blender or Ubuntu or FreeCAD or ProjectLibre is going to be safe. Large community = most likely safe.

Don’t bet on it. Twitter doesn’t have to host anyone it doesn’t want. TOS and all that.

There’s the old “more people were in poverty before capitalism” argument.

Did capitalism bring people out of poverty? Or did access to education, healthcare, social safety nets, and proper food bring people out of poverty? Where I live, capitalism is what’s driving people into tent cities.

How does one person controlling the capital in an area, help other people if they’re gatekeeping the economic prosperity from by forcing them to perform labour, at a disproportionately low rate of recompense, to help them (the capital owner) increase their net worth? Don’t even say trickle down economics or I’ll deck you.

Okay, sure, but we’re talking about inches. 8x8 isn’t a large footprint. Don’t be obtuse. Also 4x4 is 1/4 the footprint of 8x8.

They’re not a lot bigger than a NUC. My HP mini PC’s footprint is like 8"x8"

I mean, they’re the OEM, they could easily have lowered their own prices. It’s not like they were taking a loss on each unit.

Pretending like capitalism is this new concept that needs to be fully explored and debated before we understand that it’s bad is a pretty bad faith framing of the issue. Infinite economic growth is literally impossible because Earth has finite resources and there is a finite number of humans. There is no necessity or imperative behind infinite economic growth other than to make the ruling class richer at everyone else’s expense.

Relatively cheap? Huh? At $500-$1000 they were exactly the opposite of a relatively cheap desktop machine.

Lenovo or HP mini PC would be a much better bang for your buck.