In horror movies, car won't start... until the assassin/monster/or whatever tries to wreck the car

ublockorigin.com

Make sure to install uBlock Origin when you install FF. It's unlikely your nephew can click on ads believing there is a virus but do it, to be safe

So here’s the deal, I have an old HP laptop I am in the process of resetting and setting up as my ~8yo nephew’s first computer.

Big mistake. It reinstalls all the bloatware and sometimes it can even end up bricking your Windows install. Always clean install.

Obviously the parental controls will be in place with his parents getting a crash course in anything they don’t already know how to use(they’re tech literate so I’m not worried about that).

Just in case you decide to use the Microsoft parental controls. It automatically blocks Firefox so you have to unblock it manually.

So here’s where my question for y’all comes in, what are your recommendations for a budding computer scientist/programmer’s first Windows machine?

Replace the HDD with a 512 GB SATA SSD, install 8 GBs of RAM and it will probably last more

It literally takes 20% of the CPU of my i5-10400 randomly, and even 40%

The app

Meanwhile I have 16 GBs, and I feel that I should update to 32...

I don't even know him

Because:

1. They pretend words like Karen or Boomer are slurs

2. They censor the words g#me, g#mer and videog#me

3. They say Hitler invented videogames in 1939

4. Most of their proof is photoshopped images (example)

5. Most of the users active in that sub are actually also active in gaming subreddits

6. They call their subreddit a "facebook group"

Any argument from /r/BanVideoGames is fun lol. People don't realize it's satire and it becomes the funniest part of that subreddit 😂

You forgot this

Doesn't that one have ads?

Edit: Yup, it does.

Ah, sorry. Here you go