I’m a teacher. I bought a Oneplus Pad because it has better specs than the PCs we have at school.
And it’s a freaking tablet.
A few years ago, in another school, we had an EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD PC. It wasn’t tossed away: it graduated from high school.
WhisperingWispxxx
I used to have one like that at work, but I bought an SSD and 8Gb of RAM and now it’s good enough for what I do. One doesn’t really need processing power for office work.
Material-Taste1080
I still just use a controller.
AdmirableAd7616
Bless your soul brother
FreeNet_Coyote
So true, well not for me working from home, but business seems to like their employees lose time on a daily basis. Minutes lost to application loading and email opening add up pretty quickly to hours then days of lost time.
NLMichel
We need to normalize better equipment, why do the sales guys get nice Tesla’s and BMW and I have to use a super crappy stuff to work on 8 hours a day.
Bdr1983
Except for the GPU, my work laptop isn’t even that much worse than my PC at home.
And I certainly have a nicer mouse and keyboard at the office.
Moody_Girl_Name
No bs. I have to put a little space heater right up against the pc and cook it for 5 minutes to even get it to turn on at work.
AttitudeRaani
I actually finally got a laptop from work that is only about a year old vs being 5-7 years old
TransitionStraight14
Office pc is so slow (due to agressive security strategy) that it feels like 1990 pcs and vpn well 56k
ZebraSandwich4Lyf
Currently posting this from my office PC which is running on a i5-2500S with 4gb RAM together with a 1366 x 768 monitor. This heap of crap was purchased in 2011.
I know the feeling.
delpy1971
So so true, that’s why I take my gaming mouse into the office, then laugh when someone trys to use it and wonders why the pointer moves so fast.
ripnburn69
The place is full of win 10 running on 4gb of ram it’s a very sad place.
Suturb-Seyekcub
I use a wired intellimouse pro 3.0 and a 3Dconnexion 3d mouse so I’m good fam
javdoughs
I am starting a new office job next week but I am not horrified for the spec of the pc due to my field of work. I am more terrified about the awful peripherals that will come with it though.
redmainefuckye
I goto a methadone clinic and try to do maintenance for them every time I come in. My counselor had inverted colors on last week for some god known reason lol
VillainofAgrabah
I spend much more time using PC at work than home so it’s the opposite for me. I am more used to the slow PC at work so when I get to use my home PC at weekends it always feels pleasantly great.
TheWinterNights
30 Hz screen, second one about as shitty – both of course don’t match up in form, size or color grade.
Cheap plastic keyboard with shitty keys and no proper travel.
Cheap 5 bucks plastic OEM mouse.
Code compiling feels so slow I am wondering if they may have put a mobile CPU in the machine – I would check, but the shitty OS is locked down.
Doing all my “research” (and by research I mean ChatGPT and Stack Overflow search queries, because god knows code review will ruin every even semi-decent piece of idea with “the new process (TM)” or some fucking shit like “clean code”, so may as well copy & paste garbage) on my phone, because at least I don’t want to pull my hair out on the responsiveness of the phone browser.
I do think that there may at least be some decent memory in the garbage bin, because it sure pops up the notification for the planning meeting to plan the next sprint plan reliably enough for me to remember how much I hate the 14 different jobs invented around mine to make sure I don’t actually get any work done. No seriously, the one project I do for fun on the weekend here and there and may an evening or two during the week on put on GitHub proceeds faster than anything I am doing for “the business”.
Course I still get compliments for speed and quality of my code delivery – at which point I can’t push the meme picture of the clown doing his makeup out of my head anymore.
​
I am literally in this picture.
And one of those days.
Sooner or later.
I won’t make it out of the car. It is getting harder and harder to open the car door in the morning.
I would make a joke about “just learn to code” – but the money is pretty good, and this is still better than the retail thing or catering and crap I did when I was young. So guess there may be something to that, but I don’t even know anymore.
sakura-peachy
Asked work to give me a laptop with a gpu because my job requires video editing. Got a Microsoft Surface. It’s alright for basic email and Web stuff but man when I try to edit video it’s like trying to tow a boat with a Yaris. My gaming PC barely notices I’m editing.
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That mouse bit got me. good job
I’m a teacher. I bought a Oneplus Pad because it has better specs than the PCs we have at school.
And it’s a freaking tablet.
A few years ago, in another school, we had an EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD PC. It wasn’t tossed away: it graduated from high school.
I used to have one like that at work, but I bought an SSD and 8Gb of RAM and now it’s good enough for what I do. One doesn’t really need processing power for office work.
I still just use a controller.
Bless your soul brother
So true, well not for me working from home, but business seems to like their employees lose time on a daily basis. Minutes lost to application loading and email opening add up pretty quickly to hours then days of lost time.
We need to normalize better equipment, why do the sales guys get nice Tesla’s and BMW and I have to use a super crappy stuff to work on 8 hours a day.
Except for the GPU, my work laptop isn’t even that much worse than my PC at home.
And I certainly have a nicer mouse and keyboard at the office.
No bs. I have to put a little space heater right up against the pc and cook it for 5 minutes to even get it to turn on at work.
I actually finally got a laptop from work that is only about a year old vs being 5-7 years old
Office pc is so slow (due to agressive security strategy) that it feels like 1990 pcs and vpn well 56k
Currently posting this from my office PC which is running on a i5-2500S with 4gb RAM together with a 1366 x 768 monitor. This heap of crap was purchased in 2011.
I know the feeling.
So so true, that’s why I take my gaming mouse into the office, then laugh when someone trys to use it and wonders why the pointer moves so fast.
The place is full of win 10 running on 4gb of ram it’s a very sad place.
I use a wired intellimouse pro 3.0 and a 3Dconnexion 3d mouse so I’m good fam
I am starting a new office job next week but I am not horrified for the spec of the pc due to my field of work. I am more terrified about the awful peripherals that will come with it though.
I goto a methadone clinic and try to do maintenance for them every time I come in. My counselor had inverted colors on last week for some god known reason lol
I spend much more time using PC at work than home so it’s the opposite for me. I am more used to the slow PC at work so when I get to use my home PC at weekends it always feels pleasantly great.
30 Hz screen, second one about as shitty – both of course don’t match up in form, size or color grade.
Cheap plastic keyboard with shitty keys and no proper travel.
Cheap 5 bucks plastic OEM mouse.
Code compiling feels so slow I am wondering if they may have put a mobile CPU in the machine – I would check, but the shitty OS is locked down.
Doing all my “research” (and by research I mean ChatGPT and Stack Overflow search queries, because god knows code review will ruin every even semi-decent piece of idea with “the new process (TM)” or some fucking shit like “clean code”, so may as well copy & paste garbage) on my phone, because at least I don’t want to pull my hair out on the responsiveness of the phone browser.
I do think that there may at least be some decent memory in the garbage bin, because it sure pops up the notification for the planning meeting to plan the next sprint plan reliably enough for me to remember how much I hate the 14 different jobs invented around mine to make sure I don’t actually get any work done. No seriously, the one project I do for fun on the weekend here and there and may an evening or two during the week on put on GitHub proceeds faster than anything I am doing for “the business”.
Course I still get compliments for speed and quality of my code delivery – at which point I can’t push the meme picture of the clown doing his makeup out of my head anymore.
​
I am literally in this picture.
And one of those days.
Sooner or later.
I won’t make it out of the car. It is getting harder and harder to open the car door in the morning.
I would make a joke about “just learn to code” – but the money is pretty good, and this is still better than the retail thing or catering and crap I did when I was young. So guess there may be something to that, but I don’t even know anymore.
Asked work to give me a laptop with a gpu because my job requires video editing. Got a Microsoft Surface. It’s alright for basic email and Web stuff but man when I try to edit video it’s like trying to tow a boat with a Yaris. My gaming PC barely notices I’m editing.