• dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
    4412·
    1 year ago

    Gaming laptops are a sham anyway. You are lugging a hunk of a laptop everywhere, on which you’ll play games only in your home.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      111·
      1 year ago

      Well sure, but now that spot could be in bed or a recliner. I do almost all my gaming with a steamdeck, now. Busy adult life requires this convenient bit of gaming hardware.

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      if you move or travel often they’re the best, just a flat device & cable instead of an entire box the size of a dog, a monitor and a bunch of cables.

    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      1 year ago

      Youre not wrong but i had a job for awhile where i had about one day’s worth of work (if i busted my butt) to do over 2 glorious, unsupervised days. Their IT was slackass too. They had their own machines on lock but i could bring my own in and look at reddit, porn, whatever.

      I hated my job, really hated my boss, but i never got paid to fuck off quite as hard as i did there so I look back on those times warmly.

      RIP mjollnir

      • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 year ago

        That’s not being slackass. You bringing in a machine to watch porn on is your supervisor’s problem, not IT’s.

        I was told multiple places that the only thing they wanted filtered was malware sites. They have a C-level who wants to watch porn but don’t want to pay for someone to set up access groups? Don’t want to pay or give time to have someone lock down the network? Not my monkey, not my circus.

        Of course it’s come a long way since I was doing it. Those things took time. Now you just set up your access list based on directory services groups and click a few buttons. But it’s still not my problem.

    • notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      1 year ago

      they are nice if when going on holidays. although now that I’m carrying a 17 inch 3kg laptop to college and back every day it can be a bit annoying.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      I have one, but don’t use it for gaming.

      I do underwater photography and mapping, and I need it for Reality Capture.

    • Case@unilem.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I having a gaming laptop. 13 inch Razer blase stealth.

      I bought it for the GPU and its compact size.

      Let’s me do some hash cracking while at work, though if its some serious work I’ll boot into Linux on my gaming rig and do it there, but I don’t like to tie it down when I could be playing games.

      As I get older and older I have less and leas free time.

        • Case@unilem.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Nah, been a minute since I dug that laptop out of a bag.

          The gashes I gather all come from a lab network I set up at home.

          Just practice, studying towards changing to a security role from more general IT roles.

          Edit: gashes = hashes, leave per request lol.

          • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 year ago

            Ah nice, sounds like you’re on the right track if you have a home lab up and running. Best hobby I ever took up.

            Also, that is the most unfortunate autocorrect mistake I have ever seen but I think you should leave it !