Panasonic Toughbook: you accidentally applied to a job on an oil rig.
Network Operations Field Tech. They climb the ladders and debug the cameras. Absolutely toughbook.
Haha I was going to say you’re about to get shot in a foreign country.
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–
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?
Answer: how safe is the job from you?
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?
Damn, the Dell one is accurate for me.
I’ve been using thinkpads as a work laptop since they were branded IBM Thinkpad. So, I have nothing further to comment.
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
