HP: you are not going to get fired. You will quit.
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–
I did😂
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.
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
Guess I can stop worrying about job security for the forseeable future
Razor: if your house burns down because of the inevitable lithium fire it will cause, you’re on your own
Damn, the Dell one is accurate for me.
So far flip the dell and Lenovo around and it’s accurate for me
Lenovo: you’re okay with sharing secrets with China.
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.
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)
yeah, I’m pretty sure that as a westerner you have zero agency over either government in practice
Unless you’re a member of the big club, I’ve got bad news for you[1][2].
