Although if you can find ARM images, make the effort. I stay away from anything x86 via Rosetta as I don't want the slowdown.

It didn’t need to be performant. I was in between jobs for 3 weeks and I reviewing C#/EF Core. I hadn’t programmed in C# in over four years

Luckily quite a lot of .NET teams are using Postgres or MySQL nowadays but yeah.

It’s a different environment compared to what it was 5 years ago.

Wow! :-)