You should buy a faster CPU

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In the past few years, CPUs have gotten really fast. Shockingly fast! Yet most people are stuck on previous generation mobile chips (whether by choice, or by their companies choice), at a huge detriment to their productivity.
Meanwhile, AI coding subscriptions like Cursor are all the rage these days. I’ll skip the debate on exactly how useful these tools are, and focus on the pricing. Cursor is $480/year for the team plan (the cheapest corporate plan), and other providers are around the same, setting a clear price point: engineering productivity is worth at least $500/year.

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I was thinking of getting one of those BeeLink mini-PC (https://www.bee-link.com/). Has anyone tried those?

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afaik this is the BeeLink products that DHH using, can’t remember something like SER9

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Recommended for the Arch based Linux “setup/distro” https://omarchy.org/

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Thanks!

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Thank you for the recommendation.

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I’m glad DHH ditched macOS and went all-in on Linux. Even though I’m more interested in NixOS, I really like what he’s doing with Omarchy. Hopefully having prominent voices in the industry backing Linux will help push the ecosystem forward.

As for the Beelink mini PCs, I’ve heard they’re excellent little machines for running Linux.

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It’s the year of linux again

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Maybe upgrade your hardware including CPU about every a few years gives a better price/quality ratio

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