• jevans ⁂
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      264 months ago

      glances over at HP laptop I requested a replacement for 6 months ago because it overheats if I have a video call on and a spreadsheet open

      • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        84 months ago

        My HP is genuinely a creepy laptop. In the BIOS is a an “HP remote setting” as well as 3 other remote modes all at the bios level asking to join my wifi, again, at the BIOS level.

        I work from my home laptop. I have a small offline private network between my work laptop and home laptop that I send ansible jobs to (since the work laptop is a powerful machine), but that work laptop does not touch the internet.

    • @allywilson@lemmy.ml
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      Well, let’s see…my work laptop experience (so far).

      • Lenovo: Worked there for 14 years
      • HP: Worked there for 6 months
      • Apple: Worked there for 6 months
      • HP: Worked there for 2.5 years
      • Apple: Worked there for a year
      • Dell: Worked there for 2.5 years–
    • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      44 months ago

      Alternatively, your laptop will spontaneously combust firing you from life.

      I seriously don’t understand how that fucking company is still in business.

  • TimeSquirrel
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    464 months ago

    Panasonic Toughbook: you accidentally applied to a job on an oil rig.

  • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    204 months ago

    Looks depressingly at the shiny new ThinkPad my work got me to replace my old ThinkPad… I’d get so much fucking severance if these fucks ever laid me off - is it really never going to happen?

  • st0v
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    154 months ago

    ThinkPads for 24 years, same.company. last one had a terrible battery, After a few months, I couldn’t take it anymore and complained about the battery life.

    … now I have a Dell. Maybe that was my first strike used up.

  • r00ty
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    134 months ago

    I’ve been using thinkpads as a work laptop since they were branded IBM Thinkpad. So, I have nothing further to comment.

    • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      154 months ago

      If you try to give notice they’ll kidnap you and you’ll spend the next three decades of your life singlehandedly keeping the server running from a secure location somewhere in the Poconos.

  • @BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
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    84 months ago

    Looking back… that was right, hmm, 7 out of 8 times. The miss was a very chill place that gave out Dells, but I lost my job because the funding round didn’t come in.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      94 months ago

      If I have to choose which government I’m going to share my secrets with it’s going to be the one that doesn’t have agency over me.