I hope that there would be no Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton affairs/scandals(so-called in The White House in the USA),but instead of politics I hope that it wouldn't be related to Hollywood Film Industry for instance of both me & voice actress Kath Soucie(AVO Talent Agency). Nobody really needs such another thing once again in history of mankind/humankind.

I wonder who would be for instance the new Bill Clinton(possibly Kath Soucie),Hillary Clinton(Peter Varano or maybe Paul Kafun),Monica Lewinsky(probably me),Linda Tripp(possibly Adam Muth from social media),Barbara Walters,Paula Jones(possibly Sandie Schnarr-her own partner looked like for instance David Hayter or even Peter Varano-I know it because I watched little bit Impeachment : A True Crime Story). I hope that for instance I(people like Monica Lewinsky or for instance me even)would have even more successfull life career than Monica Lewinsky's previous job,work.

I wonder if for instance CERN heard of so-called ACTA 3.0? I heard that one british sciencetist worked in the Internet.

Once again I was compared to alcoholic bum because I forgot to take once again(it might happened few times)physical pocket money for instance. Besides judging by such things as for instance bills,taxes,invoices,receipts based on physical or digital economy you can't predict inevitability of death due to natural causes like my own biological parents are thinking. They are definitely not oracles,clairvoiants. You never know the day of when someone dies. However I don't think that I'm some sort of bilionaire philosopher more like so-called pseudo-philosopher.

It's true, I compared you to a drunken hobo, but only because he deserved the insult.

My trusty work/gaming laptop since 2018 (Dell Precision 3530) is finally breaking down. :(
Or, at least its fan has now started making such a rumbling noise this week that better retire it now before the fan really gives up.

That's not the reason why life sucks. I just received my "new" laptop from my employer... and it is a Dell Latitude from 2020/2021. Wheee, an old laptop replacing an even older laptop! I checked that some sites selling used laptops are selling this Latitude for 300-400 euros or so.

But even that is not what I am bitching about. I checked the battery condition ("powercfg /batteryreport" in the command prompt)... and it is 52.1% of the original capacity. Shit! Even the older 2018 laptop it is replacing has a battery in a better condition, 70.1% of the original capacity. (Their original capacity is about the same, 68 Wh).

So now the work laptop I still like quite much gets replaced by a barely newer one whose battery is in a much worse condition. And I specifically asked for a laptop with a good battery life because I have to quite often use it also on battery, e.g. if a customer calls or I get an alert while I am away, last week twice that happened, I was driving on a highway when I got an alert or an urgent call from a customer and had to pull over to the side and start doing something with the laptop sitting in the car. Not a good thing if I run out of battery in such a situation. Or, it may be I need to make a 200 km train trips for my work every now and then, and I'd like to be able to use the laptop there too with battery.

I am going to ask tomorrow if I can get a fresh replacement battery for this (I think it costs a little over 100€ or so), I can even swap it myself, seems to be very easy just a few screws and remove a cable). Somehow I fear they say no, I am supposed to be happy with what I get... fjuck!

Frankly, I'd prefer if they replaced the fan on my 2018 laptop (fan + heat sink costs around 40€ I think) and I'd keep using it, since other than that fan, it still works perfectly fine. And it even has a discrete NVidia GPU, something that the 2021 laptop doesn't.

I am now running some sort of test with this 2021 laptop, how long the battery lasts from 100% with moderate load (EDGE playing a Youtube video full screen, causing a 10-20% CPU load), so I have something concrete to whine about tomorrow.

You use your employer's work laptop for gaming? Isn't that a bit ... dangerous? Even if company policy permits it, there's still a risk that the next gaming-related update (Steam/ Galaxy/ EA App/ Discord/ Denuvo/ anti-cheat/ graphics drivers/ whatever) will break something work-related. Good luck explaining that to your boss and/or customers. "Uhh, ever since activating low-latency gaming mode, I can't access my company's network via VPN anymore. So sorry, guys." :-D

No because it is two different OS installations on the same computer that don't interact with each other. The work Windows partition is encrypted etc. and has only work-related stuff installed on it, plus a more strict enterprise level virus scanner which spies the employee for the employer, like what is running and installed on the laptop.

The other partition (OS installation) can't naturally see the encrypted work partition, and it is also hidden from the work partition, just in case.

And no the company policy doesn't really allow it, the work laptop should only be used for work related stuff, not even visiting a news site or Youtube on your coffee break, but people do that too.

Neither does it allow one to install Linux on the laptop instead of Windows, but two colleagues of mine did it anyway and the boss is aware of it, and did point out that is not allowed but didn't demand them to revert back to Windows. And the company policy says Windows is the only OS used on the laptops... but some people have Macs because they don't want to use Windows apparently, go figure.

So... yeah. I justify my actions by the fact that then I am willing to take the work laptop with me to 4 week summer vacations etc., so I can do some work related stuff then when the need arises (something that some people can't do or need help from me, which still sometimes happens). If the laptop could only do strictly work stuff, I wouldn't carry it with me in my free time.

I guess it helps the company is quite small so they may, and pretty much have to, trust employees' judgement a bit more than Tesla or Google or IBM.