There's often also services like printing (paper and 3d), vinyl cutters, lasers, sewing machines, music and games rooms and things you can book and use. Also some sports equipment and tickets.
Yep. Iirc, cycling is not only the safest way to cross any distance, but it's statistically safer than sitting on a sofa. (Lots of accidents happen at home.)
Probably the slowest I've used was a 25 MHz(?) sparcstation 1, 500 MB drive, 16 MB RAM. Or some 90's arm box. Netwinder? iPAQ?
It's kind of terrible how huge even tiny distributions are these days. But these days there's cheap low power draw hardware and big storage available that works great and that's nice. I don't miss the bad old times.
GNU and scheme. I know that's kind of an obvious answer, but they're things I appreciate. Unfortunately guix hasn't really worked for me as a distribution. I'll probably look again some time in the future.
That's almost always false unless the hardware is faster and thus more power hungry and hot than your CPU. That's rarely true. Some fpga accelerator? Maybe. GPU/TPU? Sure. Your hard drive? Not a chance that it would have even remotely competitive processor.
The point of hardware acceleration is usually that your CPU doesn't need to do a task so there's less CPU load and it can spend that time running applications or respond faster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des-Sources