nevertheless I don't think it's clever to completely discard the idea. Giving incentives to underprivileged people is a way to counter steer an unfairness. It has to be a temporary vehicle and not a permanent solution though - that's an important point to accknowledge.
I've been off caffeine for 3 months from now.
It is harder to start to work until I get engaged into what I am doing (previously it was instant after the coffee shot), but I am getting used to it and I feel way less stressed during the day and more balanced in the aspects of energy and mental states.
It is not like now my life has changed, but before I needed the coffee to be able to work properly and now I do not.
The issue here is bad frontend engineers and people buying laptops and expecting good performance.
Everybody is so happy with the apple M1 but it is only as powerfull as a ryzen 3600, a 180$ cpu
If you write well your web it will perform in most devices
apple just has the worst ratio "computing power / dollar"
Mighty will eat thru your $1k budget in 2 years with subscription fees alone. And you haven't even bought a budget laptop to run Mighty on yet. Mighty does not save you money.
Also not sure where you got the 20 hour stat. Mighty's marketing claims a 2 hour boost. And I'd take it with a grain of salt since active use of Mighty is like running a video streaming service in the background.
when talking about the M1 I had in mind the apple mini pc
If you really need a laptop just go with anything comparing the specs
In my prev job laptop was required and I had a really good thinkpad, much better than any apple laptop on the office
If you don't need a laptop, just get a desktop, much more computing power per dollar expend
