So, I hooked up an old computer in the hopes of using it as a render farm for bigger projects. It's definitely not going to help. The damned thing is practically a fossil at this point. And to think I actually used it for rendering back in the day.... oof.
Going through some old Blender files on it I found this project from 2016. Now this is when I generally used external programs to pose the models and export the scenes to Blender for rendering. So everything in the scene is static, however I decided to give it a 2021 touch up since I still had the original Blend file.
There was a time when I thought the image on the left was top of the line for an amateur. Putting them side by side really put it into perspective how far I've come since then.