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holy shit imagine showing up to your job and you're given babby's first laptop
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I think my biggest issue with big tech companies is when they don’t dog food their own shit.
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Agreed but chromebooks are for kids and grandma not workers
But let's be honest "management" / marketing / HR ain't doing real work
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It blows my mind how much ewaste ego generates. I fixed some 8-12 year old laptops this week and as far as word processing and email writing goes you'd never guess how old these things are, they'd work fine for most any manager, but managers want to feel important, want to look important and most of all want to be able to goof off on their work computer so god forbid it can't play 2k video from chrome
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I get a new laptop almost every year cause I always accidentally spill water or wine on it at some point
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foids are pretty hard on laptops
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I’m not a foid
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tbh twinks are the biofoids of men
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Who else would drink wine? Wine aunt erasure.
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I would conveniently spill something on my MacBook right before the end of year tech budget just to get a new one. Once we got downgraded to shitty Lenovos I never spilled again
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I don't even like PCs and I have 3 quality ones, 2 crappy ones, and a MacBook and I've only paid for the cheapest and oldest one.
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it is becoming more and more apparent to me that you might be the most based poster on this site
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trans lives matter
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Chromebooks are establishing a niche previously occupied by thin clients. Think banking, customer service in retail, etc.
Still would be insulting to go from an expensive windows machine or Mac to a Chromebook
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My friend bought a chromebook and it has deleted everything on itself (including D&D character sheets) maybe 3 times
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I think Google is famous (more like infamous) for employees not using gcp and instead a private internal cloud platform. Makes sense why gcp lags so far behind in marketshare to aws and azure.
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Apple uses WebEx and won’t let their employees WFH. It’s pretty funny.
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Facetime is not a replacement for Zoom
I won't pretend webex is defensible tho
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If a company already has Cisco phones (like the physical phones at desks) then they get WebEx for free. Pretty sure that's most of their customer base, companies that were effectively already paying for it when COVID hit and all of a sudden everyone was scrambling for video chat services.
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Yeah this is enterprise sales 101 so I get why they use webex. I just like to pretend Apple is different and cares about stuff like software quality
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Based masochism
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GCP is a deal right now. Google is desperate for cloud market share and will cut insane deals
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And then their blackbox AI thinks your account is spam and shuts down all your production cloud stuff in the middle of the night, with no way to contact customer service and no recource
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There may be some downsides to their neurodivergent desire to remove human interaction from their cloud business
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IMO their interface is shit compared to AWS or even Azure. It's not intuitive. But that's common for engineers driving customer-facing products. They have no ability to understand how to build for laymen.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Amazon is still working towards migrating to native AWS
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everybody ive known whos worked at microsoft fricking hated having to use ms stuff lol
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I unironically think that M$ dog fooding is what lead to https://massgrave.dev
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I code with a Chromebook
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Why are we put here? Just to suffer?
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Moar like Cringebook!
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