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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 23:56:05 JST silverwizard
   I am going to need a more powerful work computer
   
   Not to do my job - but to use all the junk like Miro and Zoom and Datadog
   
   My daily tasks are trivial for my computer to perform - but using the tools we've chosen means I need more.
   
   This is failure of our entire industry.
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 00:01:30 JST me

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     I got the computer I'm currently using as my daily driver from my brother-in-law for the price of a new SSD. The company he works for had deemed it "obsolete" and was upgrading. I just run reasonable software in it and it's fine.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 00:02:57 JST silverwizard

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     @me My personal computers are all basically things I've gotten out of eBay and hand-me-downs. My work computer is literally someone else complained about it.
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 00:28:38 JST me

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     Though, I am somehow able to say this while running KDE...
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 21:03:54 JST silverwizard

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     @awkwardlefty_cj if it was a personal computer I'd 100% open it and increase the ram or whatever, but work computer is a different beast.
     
     But 4GB RAM being unsufficient for a whiteboard or video call is unacceptable
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     CJ the Awkward Lefty (awkwardlefty_cj@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 21:03:56 JST CJ the Awkward Lefty

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     @silverwizard Can you add hardware to it to increase the processing power? I'm planning to take my work laptop to my computer guys to see if that's possible. I got a super cheap laptop about a year ago because the one I'd had for years broke and I didn't pay attention to the specs. 4GB of RAM is *not* sufficient to both run Zoom and play music unless you're cool with a 10-minute startup.

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 21:04:21 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard Apparently social functions aren't hard just for nerds, for computers too!
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     CJ the Awkward Lefty (awkwardlefty_cj@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 07:17:13 JST CJ the Awkward Lefty

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     @silverwizard The whole thing just runs really slowly, especially on startup. I don't know if there's some other cause but it was like this pretty much from the moment I got it.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 07:17:58 JST silverwizard

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     @awkwardlefty_cj startup slowdown probably means a spinning disk (a hard drive/hdd instead of a solid state drive/ssd), which makes windows start very slow
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 07:37:09 JST silverwizard

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     @awkwardlefty_cj huh, seems like Windows deals less well with low RAM than I'd expect, because that seems an ok CPU and ok disk.
     
     But I mean, don't ask me about computers I only buy stuff people are discarding and then build abominations out of it, I don't do computers anymore
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     CJ the Awkward Lefty (awkwardlefty_cj@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 07:37:14 JST CJ the Awkward Lefty

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     @silverwizard It says it has 256GB SSD. This is it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NFDW4JS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

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     CJ the Awkward Lefty (awkwardlefty_cj@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 07:46:10 JST CJ the Awkward Lefty

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     @silverwizard lol

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