• onlinepersona@programming.dev
    483·
    2 days ago

    And devs get an underpowered laptop with 16GB, an i5, and 128GB SSD, that cost less than a quarter of the product manager’s device, because they dared ask for a Linux laptop. It’s an update from a Chromebook, alright! But the business “cares” about excellence 😉

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
      14·
      2 days ago

      I still laugh about the time a company I worked for bought all the mobile devs less powerful laptops, and then they didn’t have enough storage to install Android studio.

    • datendefekt@feddit.org
      22·
      3 days ago

      I didn’t ask for anything and all I got was a 12" i3 with 8gb of RAM.

      As a enterprise architect I understand that I spend most of my time in Teams, outlook, PowerPoint and excel (damn, it hurts reading that) but I also often have to work on, you know, enterprise sized diagrams.

  • Graphy@lemmy.world
    661·
    3 days ago

    You guys don’t understand how hard it is to be a pm.

    Jira changed “issues” to “work items” and to recover from that trauma I took another two weeks off.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    I recently had my title changed to appease me and its now “IT Project Manager”. I have never been so livid in my life.

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    Place I worked previously did this with Think pads - didn’t matter if you primarily used an email client or an IDE, you got the same 32GB RAM/i7/512GB NVMe. They were big enough to be ordering new laptops 50 at a time, and the overhead of having to manage different pools for swaps when things needed fixing or for upgrades wasn’t worth it. It only needed to save something like a billable hour a year over the book life of the laptop for it to be worth it

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 days ago

      It’s memory and Javascript usage helped my company transition away from IE (to Chrome 🤷‍♂), so at least it was good for something.

    • finkrat@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      I wish it was the heaviest thing I dealt with. It is big but my God, (mandatory) Microsoft apps, particularly Teams and Outlook, make that look small in comparison

  • GreenSofaBed@lemmy.zip
    12·
    2 days ago

    I’ve got an older MacBook Pro with i7 and 32gb ram and I can barely use Jira it’s so laggy and slow to do anything. M2 Max is probably it’s minimum requirement, it’s so god damn shit.

  • 0x0@programming.dev
    171·
    2 days ago

    Meanwhile the dev gets an i5.
    Can’t really complain on an i7 with 32 GiB though, but had to struggle for those extra 16 GiB and to get an 1TB SSD.