Imagine getting a new job. You come into the office on the first day. Instead of handing you a laptop, they just give you a chair in the break room. You’ll be working off a linux distro that’s been installed into the door of a smart fridge.
You guys are getting tech jobs?
Not all laptop users work in tech.
So what if all the desks are set up with thin or zero clients.
Layoffs will be a regular occurrence. Think you’re safe because you have a lot of seniority? My wife was laid off by Chase just a couple weeks before her 20 year anniversary. Funnily enough, they had just switched everyone to thin clients a year or two before.
It was a sign they were trying to cut long term costs over user convenience long term when they switched to thing clients. Budget cuts are never a good sign in business that are “supposed” to be growing
Lol I got a layoff notice last Thursday at another financial institute. Our whole environment is Lenovo. I noticed at the end of last year that 2025s upcoming EOL refresh was going to be all thin laptop conversions.
But don’t worry guys, I can apply for 10 dollars less an hour to the new contractor they are bring on to delay the inevitable.
Your boss is constantly micromanaging you, but you can’t get anything done because thin clients suck.
What if you get two HP Pavillion Desktops. One for home and one for the office?
We got lenovo’s in my last job. I did support software tools for internal usage. Pay was low but work was not overbearing and I could have spent my whole life there. Current job, I got a MinisForum mini PC, what does that mean?
You will never receive any acknowledgement or raises.
What about a Microsoft Surface?
From a sample size of one other commenter, you will be employed for 1 year until they can’t find enough for you to do and have to let you go.
My last tech job gave me a Microsoft Surface, which possibly explains why I was hired with the promise that things would be really busy, barely did anything for a year, and then got let go because there just wasn’t enough work to justify retaining my position.
I can second this too, 8 months same exact thing
Every month the CEO rolls a D100, if it’s a 100 you’re fired.
We need to expand the meme!
I’ve had so many Dell Laptops…
I have a ThinkPad and this checks out
What if it is an IBM ThinkPad.
Bonus security because you’re clearly developing for legacy code.
I work on a GPD Win Max 2, so what does that mean? 😃
…probably gonna get fired when my employer catches me playing Cyberpunk.
I had a Thinkpad L390 Yoga before. Constant overheating, the logo sticker just came off one day and stuck to my hand and the battery barely lasted through a meeting. Absolute garbage, never again. The Thinkpad brand is dead to me.
Now I have eight cores, 64GB RAM, a GPU with raytracing support and a 2K IPS display…all in 10 inches with 8-10 hours of battery life. GPD is insane and those specs would cost me an arm and a leg if I stuck with IBM.
I was able to choose my own Lenovo. Twice. 14+ years at the same place.
Oh, hey, 15+ and on my second Lenovo here too 👋
Albeit I had a desktop at first. Don’t remember which brand.
Seems like you chose wisely! I kind of want you to choose a dell for science next time, but it would definitely be against your best interests according to the laws of physics that mysteriously underly this phenomenon.
The laws of thermal- and accoustic physics are surely warped within Dell hardware. Otherwise, I have no explanation why it acts so much worse than other laptops with similar specs.
Didn’t they just announce discontinuing the zipple?
What about a Framework laptop?
Edit: or a desktop that you can remote into from your personal machine if you want to work outside the office?
Just got a framework 13. Can’t imagine going back to anything else right now.
Yes, having a work desktop (or a virtual insurance somewhere) is great.
Especially if you need to run some intensive jobs.
Adding to OP:
Framework: You are self-employed.
It ain’t much but it’s honest work, the honestest.
Wouldn’t it either be a really new start up or a non profit foss group? Talking about framework
In my friend’s case, it’s a web development company that’s been around for at least a decade. His previous machine at the same company was a Dell, I think.
@reallykindasorta didn’t they stop making trackpoint on ThinkPads?
I see some news about it but my work just upgraded ours recently and they still have it! Must be the version right after. RIP trackpoint.
