The future is in AI/ML. Now you can spend your 2 years of life getting a certificate on it to get a job. Or you can choose instead to build something.
In the 90s and 2000s you could do all the things on your cheap laptop that big corps did on their expensive hardware. How much money you wanted to spend on hardware in business, depended on how much corrupt you can get on wasting corporate cash. As nothing needed too large a processing power anyway.
Things changed. Now it's all about processing power. The more you have of it, the more leverage you have over others that are competing with you for the same market share.
I was still thinking about what's the minimal you need, the cheapest.
Need two GPUs. And I can't run GPUs with laptop. Need at least a desktop. But desktops aren't available anymore since laptops took over.
Alternate? Need to go for those hated, overpriced, corporate waste, rack servers to simply get started. Even if I want to work on my ideas at home, there's no way around.
Next where from can I buy a rack server? Those aren't available on street side shops. Need to place order in corporate offices. And they won't take orders from you even if you walk in with your cash. They will measure you, check how much you are willing to pay, what you are willing to use it for in which office [ "I want to use it at home" isn't a valid answer yet ] ask you to send a "Request for Offer", try to figure out your contract-office-tender, and then send you back a "Our best offer" letter with price boosted up three folds.
Wondering what to do.