• onlinepersona@programming.dev
    2·
    2 months ago

    And devs get an underpowered laptop with 16GB, an i5, and 128GB SSD, that cost less than a quarter of the product manager’s device, because they dared ask for a Linux laptop. It’s an update from a Chromebook, alright! But the business “cares” about excellence 😉

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    • datendefekt@feddit.org
      2·
      2 months ago

      I didn’t ask for anything and all I got was a 12" i3 with 8gb of RAM.

      As a enterprise architect I understand that I spend most of my time in Teams, outlook, PowerPoint and excel (damn, it hurts reading that) but I also often have to work on, you know, enterprise sized diagrams.

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 months ago

      I still laugh about the time a company I worked for bought all the mobile devs less powerful laptops, and then they didn’t have enough storage to install Android studio.

  • Graphy@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    You guys don’t understand how hard it is to be a pm.

    Jira changed “issues” to “work items” and to recover from that trauma I took another two weeks off.

    • finkrat@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I wish it was the heaviest thing I dealt with. It is big but my God, (mandatory) Microsoft apps, particularly Teams and Outlook, make that look small in comparison

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Place I worked previously did this with Think pads - didn’t matter if you primarily used an email client or an IDE, you got the same 32GB RAM/i7/512GB NVMe. They were big enough to be ordering new laptops 50 at a time, and the overhead of having to manage different pools for swaps when things needed fixing or for upgrades wasn’t worth it. It only needed to save something like a billable hour a year over the book life of the laptop for it to be worth it