Do you have a source for all your claims?
Everything I can find online says that cloudflare DDOS protection is unlimited and unmetered on their free plan. https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
But honestly, even if you are not prioritised I doubt Cloudflare will ever run out of resources due to ddos attacks. And if they did the whole internet is pretty much down anyways.
How did they mess up?
Also isn't a laptop from 2014 (?) kinda pushing it when it comes to laptops?
I can't be much more expensive to get a laptop that's much better in pretty much every way.
Unrelated but I really wish modern ThinkPads had a think light.
Or a normal booted ThinkPad if you don't really care about that (I personally don't) it will be able to run Linux regardless.
I wouldn't worry about DDOS attacks at all.
People simply don't care about whatever small website you plan on hosting. Unless it's something extremely controversial and you gain a lot of exposure suddenly.
It's worth worrying about if you ever get big but until then just forget it.
I.E. do something about it when/if it happens and not before. A ddos is fairly harmless unless you need to stay up for some reason (and you don't need to stay up).
Everything I have read before says that there is no limit for cloudflare free.
Are you sure about that?
The list isn't exclusively about FOSS.
A dude who's very picky about whitespace.
That's entirely possible we do that here. Unfortunately the infrastructure is very expensive if your city doesn't already have district heating and if it does like most cities do here, I'm guessing it's still pretty damn expensive to implement.
It's great though.
Or you just act reasonable.
It's ludicrous to act like you do and justify it because "everyone can simply block me."
One shouldn't have to block you. Act reasonable or fuck off because obviously Lemmy isn't something for you.
Communities or subs exist for a reason. If you want to just scream your thoughts into the ether I suggest Twitter or any of the alternatives.
Maybe the build quality is a bit worse but it's not bad. My x280 is doing great and I would absolutely not replace it with an older machine (even if that machine had a think light)
And I much rather have soldered components from 2018 (or something) than non soldered from a decade ago
But sure, there is nothing wrong with running old machines yourself. I just wouldn't recommend it to people that ask for a laptop unless they specifically request it.