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
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.
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--
Honestly good litmus test, if you got a Thinkpad that means somebody seems to listen to IT on what to buy which does bode sort of well for a tech job
I requested a thinkpad and installed arch linux on it. How safe is my job?
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.
Razor: if your house burns down because of the inevitable lithium fire it will cause, you're on your own
So far flip the dell and Lenovo around and it’s accurate for me
Guess I can stop worrying about job security for the forseeable future
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.
