It’s so cute seeing Americans facing a wannabe dictator for the first time. Meritocracy never works in systems like the one Trump is building. It’ll take time, but they’ll get to the point where everyone in the system (including judges) will be working for the system. I don’t think people realize how small the window of opportunity to stop this is. It’s been done so many times by so many people - the only interesting thing about all what’s happening is that it’s happening in the US.

It’s probably easier to maintain clean and dedicated distribution packages rather than putting everything into one giant pile. I’m not a maintainer, but I imagine this is similar to coding.

I only want to use it for facebook marketplace

A customer can come back in the future. But probably not after this.

Same. I had an issue with AI videos at some point, but some dislikes later I don’t see them anymore.

Just give it a try. Even if you decide that gamedev isn’t for you, you’ll learn something new about yourself and game development in general.

I think the biggest advantage of an old laptop is that people often already have one.