To be honest, I don't trust myself to be cautious enough to be going out to restaurants at the moment. Admittedly I tend to become quite lax with taking precautions the longer I'm out of the house.
I run my own business so I'm forced to be out every day and I deal with customers on the regular...
I'm basically starting from scratch. Everything I have is dated. It just took multiple laptops dying on me to realise that I've been missing out on so much and I've become too accustomed to slow operations and having to mcguyver the registry for every small little process to get the speed I need
Figured I could drop the GPU. I'm an engineer by qualification so I'll code a mathematical model to tell me how long i must put my popcorn in the microwave for but I'm a marketer by experience so I'll basically use it for everything besides gaming.
I think I knew that all along. I guess I've just been looking for someone to make me feel better with myself about wanting to waste a crapload amount of money on something shiny
So I'm currently in the market for a new laptop because I completely ruined 2 of them in the space of 3 months. I do quite a bit of Photoshop work and Youtube influencer level video editing and I've been using 2 of my older laptops that really aren't specced to handle that kind of work...