Speaking as someone who has a 7.5 yr old hulk of a tower that still does 90% of what I want it to do… and do it well… I made it w/ parts that were half-a-gen behind the cutting edge, then made appropriate gfx and ram and hrddrv upgrades as necessary about once each at mid-point. So I can’t run any of the newest games–but as a console player, that doesn’t matter, does it?
Well–the training for your brain so it doesn’t liquefy helps, too. Something about a correlation between brain use and decrease in Alzheimer’s… can’t remember.
Anyway, plowed through a bunch of calculus in high school and college. Do I use anything besides basic arithmetic? HA. Nope. Graduate school now, finally learning something I’ll use in life. But had to do that calc to get there…
That was very tactical. I applaud you, Peter, for turning another man’s strength into your advantage.