I’m a software developer. Previous times I’ve had instances where for one reason or another I’ve had to work on pretty terrible machines; needless to say that at one point this gets on my nerves and I just can’t work as well. Right now I have a pretty recent Dell Precision with 12th gen Core i7 and that CPU is surprisingly good for a model with just two P-cores; still, it’s nowhere near the 5900X I have in my desktop. On my previous job I had a laptop with I think 10th gen i7 that was generally good, but from time to time it would decide that it would just throttle down to like 800 MHz and stay there for no particular reason (temps were fine and everything).
Still, I get that being able to work on your own hardware is rather an exclusion (unless you’re a freelancer).
This, plus the fact that if it’s a laptop and you put a bit more load on it, it can get loud, whereas a desktop PC can be pretty quiet and performant at the same time; a work desktop might be better in some regards if they let me build it myself, but it’s usually just an OEM machine that’s might not be assembled with low noise in mind; on top of that I don’t want to have two cases right next to each other.
Relatable. What I kinda hate about it as well is that I can’t use my own PC for work, but at least this time around I have a decent work laptop - and I can still use my own peripherals.
I’m not sure if it’s the same thing, but there seems to be some login problems with Lemmy.world (I’ve been experiencing those for the last 2-3 days when trying to log in from a browser).