Lol, reminds me of my old setup.
It was all old W98 laptop that I got used. I installed xunbuntu on it back when it first came out in 2006. It sat on my desk, open like that with a bit of tape over to hold the power cord because it was loose. The battery was completely dead.
It was the server I used to host all the modded maps I made for a silly little tank game. Thing ran seemlessly only going down when the power went out or somebody juggled the power cord for 5 years.
My son fell into a bad group of mostly straight A kids in middle school.
They collected a large collection of webpage based games. They started out attempting to host them on the schools network through shared docs etc. The IT guys wised up to them and shut it down.
Then they turned into 14 year olds and took it up a notch.
Got together and paid for a hosting location overseas. Built a video hosting webpage with thousands of pirated educational videos. Made a secondary menu without any links on the homepage. They have to type in the index page in the URL. All of the games pages show up as educational videos in the history.
Most of the teachers in the school are using the free educational videos so the webpage is on the trusted site on the school districts content filter.
The IT teacher at highschool figured it out. Instead of ratting them out and banning the webpage. He started working on getting them scholarships to colleges. Now most of the ringleaders have full ride scholarships.
My son was invited in because he is extremely good at games (unusually fast reaction times). He holds the high score on most of the games. I don’t play against the little shit. It’s pointless to try to beat him.
That’s an obvious explanation of why the reported numbers change but most of the population can’t process the information.
It requires a multi-step of thinking to understand and reverses the assumed conclusion when people first look at the numbers.
its just like when people look at violent crime rates in the 1960’s-90’s. The reported crime rates were steadily increasing even while the actual violent crime rates fell. What changed was a societal acceptance of what constituted a violent crime.
Suddenly beating the shit out of somebody with a different skin color, your kids, or wife was no longer considered a fun weekend activity and was instead a violent crime.
iPad, 2 phones, 2 laptops, and a double monitor. I own my own business with no employees so I do all the jobs.