• @hoanbridgetroll@midwest.social
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    1482 years ago

    Plot twist: She’s mining shitcoin with the courthouse electricity. She’s smart enough to know that’s the only paycheck she’s getting.

    Judge: “Council, why is your laptop running so loudly?”

    Lawyer: “It’s…uh…fuming at the witch hunt that my client has endured.”

  • @Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    722 years ago

    This just screams “Rich-looking lady who knows fuck all about computers goes into shop to ask what laptop she needs to run Excel”

    • Dept
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      942 years ago

      or… she’s a gamer and she travels a lot

      • @Squeak@lemmy.world
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        482 years ago

        No, no. This is a female and females aren’t allowed to game.

        Could also be that Asus knew a picture like this would come out, so gave her a free laptop to get the ROG brand in a prominent place.

      • @neeeeDanke@feddit.de
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        312 years ago

        I would hope if she was she would have a seperate not-gaming Laptop for work.

        Would be more professional, but shes Trumps lawyer so I guess there is not much to expect in the way of professionalism.

          • @Microw@lemm.ee
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            152 years ago

            Well either she is unneccesarily using a gaming Laptop for non-gaming.

            Or she uses her private gaming laptop for work and doesnt separate between those two spheres, which is unprofessional and potentially dangerous in regards to privacy security.

            • @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
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              72 years ago

              unneccesarily using a gaming Laptop for non-gaming.

              I don’t see why this would be an issue, it’s a computer after all.

              Using her own machine for sensitive work like that, on the other hand, I do see the point. Unless there is some sort of dual boot setup involved.

            • Norah (pup/it/she)
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              162 years ago

              There are plenty of reasons besides gaming to have a laptop with a dedicated GPU. There isn’t really many low end professional options, they start over $2k. 3D modelling, video rendering, ML and a bunch of other professional uses are significantly improved with dedicated hardware.

              Who knows, maybe she’s running LLaMA on it locally so no one catches her using AI to write her rebuttals.

            • @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
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              122 years ago

              unless it means you are using your work laptop to game.

              Why is this a bad thing? Why would you have separate computers, when you can have one good one?

              • Benign
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                192 years ago

                Security issues. It’s standard security policy for most companies to separate private and work.

                • @Grabthar@lemmy.world
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                  So have a drive for work and one for play. Bill the laptop to work but spec it for what you want at home.

  • MudMan
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    542 years ago

    So, alright, in her defense, I have that particular laptop and a) it’s not that heavy, b) at least the AMD versions can go up to 8-9 hours with the mux switch off, and c) it actually has a great typing keyboard. It is absolutely a kickass mobile workstation, especially if you need the performance to do other stuff like edit video (or game, obviously).

    Now, would I have switched the RGB off during court proceedings? Yes, I would have switched the RGB off.

      • Bizarroland
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        72 years ago

        I’ve done some work for lawyers before in the it field and I would place a hefty bet of $10 that the reason that she has that laptop is that her old one broke down and she told her it guy to get her the most powerful laptop available.

        Lawyers are not really known for being technologically savvy, same for doctors and teachers, but they often have a lot of money to burn for tax purposes every year.

  • Praise Idleness
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    Today when I walked into the Trump case court I saw something I dread every time I close my eyes. A lawyer had brought their new gaming laptop to courtroom. The Forklift she used to bring it was still running idle at the back. I started sweating as I sat down and gazed over at the 700lb beast that was her laptop. She had already reinforced his desk with steel support beams and was in the process of finding an outlet for a power cable thicker than Amy Schumer’s thigh. I start shaking. I keep telling myself I’m going to be alright and that there’s nothing to worry about. She somehow finds a fucking outlet. Tears are running down my cheeks as I send my last texts to my family saying I love them. The judge enters, and the lawyer turns her laptop on. The colored lights on her RGB Backlit keyboard flare to life like a nuclear flash, and a deep humming fills my ears and shakes my very soul. The entire city power grid goes dark. The courtroom begins to shake as the massive fans begin to spin. In mere seconds my world has gone from vibrant life, to a dark, earth shattering void where my body is getting torn apart by the 150mph gale force winds and the 500 decibel groan of the cooling fans. As my body finally surrenders, I weep, as my court and my city go under. I fucking hate gaming laptops.

  • RachelRodent
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    All the memes on youtube about Biden and trump playing video games together make sense now

    • @mycatiskai@lemmy.one
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      He probably also doesn’t want to need glasses in court so he has the biggest screen so each sentence can be in font size 48 and still fit on one screen.

      More than likely there isn’t anything on the screen unless the lawyers put something on for him to say which he will ignore anyways.

  • Asus RoG laptops are so underestimated for productivity. The AMD chips have fantastic battery life and performance.

    Recently set up an office on a couple of them, granted it was not this high end of a model but it’s stupid to ignore them for office use.

    Also I guarantee she didn’t pick this. This was 100% advised to her by her companies IT group after she repeatedly said her computer was slow. It’ll run all the spyware she downloads with enough cores left over to run excel.

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      Might be smart to disable all those lid animations, though. Or smarter yet, insert subliminal messages on it.