I second this. Grap a cheap 256GB SSD, use that HDD as external storage device. Your mother will hug you tighter for this :)
Background:
Been using my laptop for 6 years to this point, and thought it was the installed programs and content size that slowed my laptop.
Then I heard somewhere that SSD have gotten cheaper. So I gathered the courage to look on my local stores, and found Lexar NS100 1TB for $72.
After swapping the HDD with this SSD, installed nixos on it, laptop went from taking 2 and a half minutes to start to 15 seconds! And it was consistent every time.
Not only that, but opening apps (libre office suite) went from taking 30 seconds to just 3!
SSD gave a new breath to my somewhat old laptop.
PS: RAM is just as important, And it's often overlooked. Anything less that 8GB nowadays is not recommended (browsers have been known to use more RAM than expected. To me, tab suspenders where not an option, since to revisit the suspended tab means the browser had to load the page all over again, few seconds delay) 16GB is the sweet spot IMO.
It always has been. I mean, super yachts are expensive, someone's gotta pay for that in one way or another. There's never been 'enough' with these people. They hide their greeds in something like 'new opportunities'
Even now, the lawyers are working their butts off finding new loop holes so that they could sell your data even more without raising red-flags
This will keep on happening, just as how they try to shove ads to you in any way possible.
::: spoiler alert: they are invading the HDMI protocol :::
In Electronics world? Bipolar junction Transistors. Easily.
This led into having portable devices we have today.
Back then people used vacuum tubes for switching and amplification; of which were very expensive to run (used a lot of power when idle, while having a very short lifespan of less than 48 hrs).
I mean, vacuum tubes where phenomenal when they came, allowed first long distance calls in 1915.
Look at my phone now, fits on my hands, and has billions of transistors!
Post script: lately I've been thinking, what if we remove cell towers as middle men? Because nowadays privacy is somewhat dead. People have been using radio frequency for walkie-talkies even before 1st generation communication (1G) was a thing.
This. Happens more frequently than you think.
Most noticeable is when you just wake up, and begin to stare through a very bright area (like a window) and then close your eyes again.
The "sillouete" of the window (which is in a very weird color gamut) would appear with your eyelids closed, even if you move your eyes around.
After few seconds of eyes-closed, it disappears.