A DIY laptop???!!! I had no idea such a thing existed, I will definitely be looking into this.
I've never cared about running high quality graphics, medium is fine for me. I'm more concerned with fan noise than graphics. My current system is fine for things like Skyrim and Sims 4, but for something like BG3 I'm streaming from my desktop.
Is there a reverse version of this where all the brownies are middle brownies? That's the version I want.
Thanks! I notice that all of their gaming laptops have an NVIDIA GPU, but I see people complaining about NVIDIA drivers here regularly, is that an issue I should be concerned with? I would hope a system prebuilt for linux would have taken that into account, but I don't know that much about the complaints.
I would definitely like to see this community grow, but agree with the others about the challenges of increasing engagement for a niche topic when there isn't much action for each of us to take from day to day. Most of the active portion of FIRE seems to be at the start and end of each person's journey, the part in between is just slowly moving forward. It might help if we had more highly upvoted posts to catch people's attention on the main screen. Maybe we need to start cranking out FIRE memes like the Star Trek communities? 😄
Hard no. Huge privacy issues with all of those companies and questionable how useful/accurate the data you get back is anyway.
When I look at what they're creating, I can see that they are trying to protect a lot of the "in" leaders and so they're laying off too many workers and keeping too many leaders. I have no doubt they'll have to make leadership cuts next year since they are approaching this completely backwards, so I definitely don't see staying as "safe".
I'm optimistic that I'll be able to find a job quickly enough that the severance is actually a bonus, but I haven't looked for a job in a long, long time, so I might be deluding myself. I have enough connections in the company that I could probably land something else, but the idea of taking a little break sounds nice. We just had a major reorg last year (when they should have made this change) that has been brutal to implement. We are just now getting stable from that and this is going to hit my employees hard.
The headcount reduction was the major thing for me. We're merging 3 teams, which I expected for a long time now, but I expected more leadership cuts and fewer worker cuts. If I stay, I will have to significantly reduce the quality of work or drive my employees to burn out. I'm not very interested in either option.
Here's a what if for you all this week.
If you were given a choice to layoff 1/3 of your employees (with no reduction in workload) or take 9 months severance, which would you do?
I'm pretty sure I know what I'm going to do, but will be waiting until the last possible moment to commit in case I change my mind. In my case, I could live 3-4 years on my savings (not counting the severance), but that would set back my retirement plans substantially. I'm not looking for advice, just thought this would be a good discussion topic and I'm curious how others would handle this in their own context (not in my shoes).
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