Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are quite a few office jobs that benefit from a decent CPU. Anything to do with images/photos/video/rendering for example.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Plus PCs cost fuck all compared to staff, may as well get them efficient tools if they will be using them a lot.

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    • IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re 100% correct at a sane company. At my employer the hardware team is incentivised to cut costs and impacts to productivity are someon else’s problem. Corporate metrics lead to some pretty hilarious situations.

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      • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This happens so often. The new version of the framework our frontend developers use has massive performance problems, which meant that our FE devs couldn’t test their changes locally, they had to upload a release to the cloud to test every single change. That reduces productivity to close to 0. A developer isn’t cheap, so you’d think the company would be quick to issue macbooks that we are also allowed to have so that they can work again.

        Nope, it took 3 months for our manager to convince the helpdesk that they can get macbooks. Helpdesk originally said they’d have to wait for 2 years for the scheduled replacement of the laptops.

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      • LeFantome@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You get what you measure

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