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.
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.
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
Panasonic Toughbook: you accidentally applied to a job on an oil rig.
Haha I was going to say you’re about to get shot in a foreign country.
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
I requested a thinkpad and installed arch linux on it. How safe is my job?
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.
