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You placed the laptop in a location where slowly but surely there is a dust build up in the fans? You get some issues.
Hard drives start degrading? You get some issues.
And so on, while I've been running some personal things off VPSs too and those never had a single second of downtime. My home machine is my pride and joy but for sure 1 day a year on average there is something. But much cheaper in terms of raw components and performance.
So, yeah, it makes sense if you want the things you run not become a side job/hobby.
So that example fails to support any reason for akari matching light in English. But for the sake of argument here is another one: じゃり (giari, read as "ja-ri") in Japanese means gravel and in my dialect almost the same sound (giarin, "ja-ri-n") also mean gravel. Go figure.
I do believe that while Google and Apple are evil gatekeepers they also made it easier for non-tech people to install their own app without always calling their kids or neighbours. That's already a big win.
One question: how did you find tutors and were they meeting physically or also online? And what subjects did you find needing tutoring?
My schooling was alright but I can imagine a much better version given different circumstances.
Because then why do you ride a vehicle when you could walk?
Why do you use fire when a well-positioned mirror with sun could do?
Why a piezo ignition or lighter when a stick and lots of friction would do as well?
GPT 5.6 sol and Astra can now one shot incredible stuff.
Look it up, also I discovered that 350C is not double as hot as 175C, actually just 25% more.