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      11 days ago

      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

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        My HP is genuinely a creepy laptop. In the BIOS is a an “HP remote setting” as well as 3 other remote modes all at the bios level asking to join my wifi, again, at the BIOS level.

        I work from my home laptop. I have a small offline private network between my work laptop and home laptop that I send ansible jobs to (since the work laptop is a powerful machine), but that work laptop does not touch the internet.

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      11 days ago

      Well, let’s see…my work laptop experience (so far).

      • Lenovo: Worked there for 14 years
      • HP: Worked there for 6 months
      • Apple: Worked there for 6 months
      • HP: Worked there for 2.5 years
      • Apple: Worked there for a year
      • Dell: Worked there for 2.5 years–
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      Alternatively, your laptop will spontaneously combust firing you from life.

      I seriously don’t understand how that fucking company is still in business.