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Laptops have soul (infosec.pub)
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Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal.
A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that's why they don't experience mental illness. A phone problem is like "out of storage :(" or "charging port broke". Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness.
You will hold a laptop in your arms and it's like "I can't feel my legs". And you tell it girl you never had any.

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[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

As someone who has worked in both refurbished consumer electronic resale as well as enterprise systems administration, for me it's the Consumer-grade hardware. Thin plastic, no reinforcement in the weak spots, and if you need to open the thing, clips that break, hidden screws, nonsense. Enterprise laptops on the other hand, survived my sales reps throwing them or running them over. A thinkpad's shell may crack, but it's innards are stronk

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah I can see that... I guess I'm just spoiled since I got a Framework a year or so ago, and it's built like a goddamn tank lol

[–] suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Last thinkpad I had went through 4 failed displays in the first year, all replaced under warranty until it failed again 1 month after the warranty expired and they told me to go pound sand. I’ll never buy another Lenovo again.

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Well that's some BS. To be fair I'll never buy a Lenovo again either lol