• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I think the big disconnect with that is government laptops…

    If someone told me their government laptop caught fire when they joined a Teams call where two people had a camera on. I’d believe them.

    But no government employee will tell you a story like that, because it is completely unremarkable and expected. It’s like a Park Ranger of 15 years losing his shit when he saw a squirrel…

    If you’re used to using a gaming laptop to edit text files and suddenly you have to use a shitty $300 government issue laptop, it’s going to shock you.

    But the solution to that is funding the government. I’m not a big Obama guy, but at least he gave agencies money for laptops. trump and Biden love cutting corners though, which just translates to paying people to watch a screen scroll by slower because of a slow laptop.