• st0v@lemmy.zip
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    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.

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    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.

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    HP: you are not going to get fired. You will quit.

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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–
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      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

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        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.

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

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

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    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

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    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?

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      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.

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

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      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.

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        Its also one you don’t have any agency over.

        (I’m living under the dreamful pretence that the american people can hold their intelligence agencies at least somewhat in check)