• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I think the big disconnect with that is government laptops…

    If someone told me their government laptop caught fire when they joined a Teams call where two people had a camera on. I’d believe them.

    But no government employee will tell you a story like that, because it is completely unremarkable and expected. It’s like a Park Ranger of 15 years losing his shit when he saw a squirrel…

    If you’re used to using a gaming laptop to edit text files and suddenly you have to use a shitty $300 government issue laptop, it’s going to shock you.

    But the solution to that is funding the government. I’m not a big Obama guy, but at least he gave agencies money for laptops. trump and Biden love cutting corners though, which just translates to paying people to watch a screen scroll by slower because of a slow laptop.

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      3 hours ago

      My CPU was mid range when I bought it five years ago and I use it process a 300gb+ database of price history. My day job is working jupyter notebooks hosted on raspberry pis. Not being able to process a 60000 row database is definitely a skill issue. Bad hardware should encourage good software.

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        2 hours ago

        Don’t get me wrong, they’re idiots.

        But people are drastically underestimating how shitty government laptops are.

        But what do I know? What’s decades of direct experience when someone online has a Jupiter laptop?!

        Clearly you know more than anyone who actually deals with it

        Speaking of, it’s my mom’s b’day coming up, you clearly know more than me so what would a thoughtful and bespoke gift be?

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          Get her a Thinkpad with 64 GB of ram and a server-class CPU that blasts enough heat to make the laptop hover. That’s what I had the last time I worked on a project for the government. Company took it back though 😞

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          27 minutes ago

          Idk. If it’s your mum that you take after, you can get her nothing and let her make the excuses for your failure.

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          2 hours ago

          Flowers, her favorite unless her favorite is roses then go for something nice and in season. If you have the time bake her homemade cookies as well.

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          1 hour ago

          The issue with your comments are not how bad government laptops are.

          The issue seems to be you don’t understand how little work processing even a million rows is.