fonix232

An mSATA or small NVMe in a USB enclosure is the best way to go. No wasting a precious internal slot, and they can be super tiny (2230/2242 enclosures are dime a dozen).

Windows Server exists.

It really shouldn’t, but it does.

Not remembering specifics of a technology, and completely forgetting the base building blocks - the same blocks that you should be using for AI generated code too, BECAUSE YOU NEED TO FUCKING REVIEW IT - is not the same.

I’m an Android engineer by trade. I might not be able to give you the exact interface definition of a BroadcastReceiver, or explain in technical terms the core differences between a TextureView and a SurfaceView (that’s what the documentation is for!), but for sure as hell can tell you if your architecture is good or not, or if the quality of the code you wrote is shite.

If you forgot to write good code and good architecture, in a span of what, at most, a year, then you were never a good engineer to begin with.