The chap running the Aging Wheels YouTube channel owns one of these and has done some great videos about driving and maintaining it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npMKIUTa3uI
This could be the butterfly keyboard all over again. I find it really hard to believe that Apple isn't testing their products with real people, it's more likely such issues are just getting ignored or shrugged off when discovered. Which is possibly more disturbing.
I typically enjoy Dave Jones' videos but this one was really neat. Looking at old processors is a fun rabbit-hole to go down on YouTube if that floats your boat.
It's probably worth looking into the big cloud providers rather than the little guys. In Azure you can have an app service (a deployed app in any one of loads of languages without looking after the machine it sits on) with 1.75GB RAM for about $12 a month. Obviously your usage may vary and that will effect the price. But I get the feeling that the big players are cheaper than people think they are for small projects.
The other videos on this fellow's channel are great. The pipe cleaner bending robot reminds me of machines I've seen on 'How it's made' in a spring factory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BngfWLsFVs
The only true fair solution would be to put everyone back at least a year and wait until the exams can actually be done. In the mean time they could've invested the energy in getting an online exam system working and improve/innovate online learning mechanisms so that if we go back into lockdown again they are ready for it.