• @hoanbridgetroll@midwest.social
    228•2 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: “Counsel, why is your laptop running so loudly?”

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

  • MudMan
    167•2 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.

    • @banneryear1868@lemmy.world
      27•2 years ago

      Yeah I actually think this is really cool because buying this sort of laptop, you have to know a thing or two about computers and intentionally buy it. It’s not a default choice, she had a reason to get this specific category of gaming laptop. She’s probably a gamer with a watercooled rig at home, but as a lawyer is often on the go between clients, and she wants to get in on some sidequests and grinds whenever she can.

      • Clay_pidginEnglish
        30•2 years ago

        It’s also possible that she just asked IT to buy her the fastest laptop they could find. I choose to believe that she’s 4th ranked in the world in Destiny 2, though.

        • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
          4•2 years ago

          “Jesus that 6-stack just crushed us in the crucible. Clan tag TeamTrump? Top player’s name is BarristerBetty?”

      • Bizarroland
        26•2 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.

        • @Enigma@sh.itjust.works
          2•2 years ago

          Yeah there are so many lawyers with AOL accounts. I personally know one who is a powerhouse, won awards and whatnot. But outside the courtroom? As dumb as a bag of bricks, super naive, was shocked to learn they are an attorney, let alone the go to attorney in their field.

      • MudMan
        7•2 years ago

        Let’s not go nuts here, either. ASUS software is genuine garbage and there are lots of bad polish details all over the place.

        But they make pretty weird, nutty choices that are often unique and cool, so I sometimes put up with their nonsense just for that.

  • @Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
    84•2 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
      132•2 years ago

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

      • @Squeak@lemmy.world
        76•2 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
        37•2 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
            20•2 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
              13•2 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.

              • @NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
                6•2 years ago

                If she bought a gaming laptop specifically for work (this is the way you end up with a gaming laptop that’s not also your personal laptop) then it’s a silly, unnecessary, ill suited decision. There are other laptops with better battery life, cheaper, lighter, etc etc etc…. That fit the lawyer usecase better. Why would a lawyer buy a gaming laptop to lawyer?

                IANAL but I don’t think you need discrete graphics for lawyer applications. But who knows, maybe she’s running an ML model locally to tell her what to do.

              • @jasondj@ttrpg.network
                3•2 years ago

                Well, no, I think you’re missing the point.

                There’s really no reason for a lawyer to be carrying a huge gaming laptop as their daily driver. There’s no advantage to it over an ultrabook, MBP, or any high-end productivity laptop (that’s probably in a lower price bracket to boot).

                Now, if they do game on it, and also use it for work, that speaks to very poor IT security practice. Sensitive/valuable client data, especially for such a high-profile case, shouldn’t be on the same system that is built for gaming. The main reason being that games aren’t designed to be run on secure systems. So many of them arbitrarily require admin rights to perform properly, which means that this lawyer would have to have local admin privileges to be able to use them.

                Giving a non-technical user admin privileges to a system that contains sensitive data for a high-profile client is absolutely a recipe for disaster. That system needs to be locked the fuck down. Not running Baldurs Gate during recess.

                Now, perhaps, there’s a logical reason. Maybe her practice has a really good IT team and they’ve been able to effectively set up a good, secure BYOD environment. I’d still question this lawyers judgement in their professional image to select an RGB gaming laptop for their work. To me, this is no different than a shady personal injury lawyer that features their trashy Hummer H2 in every commercial, which exclusively airs during reruns of Jerry Springer.

              • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
                2•2 years ago

                I do the same thing, but it’s my home desktop. For me the big thing here isn’t about using your gaming computer for work it’s using it for work as a lawyer. There are two components to this: first law requires a degree of privacy and security that not having a separate computer for work demonstrates a habit of lack of security, second is that bringing an rgb laptop to a courtroom as a defense lawyer is akin to wearing jeans and a tshirt to court as a defense lawyer, it shouldn’t be a problem but judges tend to really not like that sort of thing and so it demonstrates a lack of professionalism in a job where professionalism impacts your performance

                • @desconectado@lemm.ee
                  5•2 years ago

                  Well do you know if that lady bought it only for use in court?

                  Jesus, people drawing conclusions from a still image. It could have been a gift? Maybe it’s not even her laptop? Maybe she has so much money that she wanted it for the rgb? Maybe she does video editing as a hobbie? Maybe she uses it for traveling for gaming and work, because NOONE brings one laptop for gaming and one for work when travelling.

                  Tell me more about what she does after work is over, you seem to know…

            • Norah (pup/it/she)English
              21•2 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
              13•2 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
                22•2 years ago

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

                • @Grabthar@lemmy.world
                  3•2 years ago

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

      • @NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Possibly, I guess some of us just never seen a lawyer w a gaming laptop. I thought people in those suit wearing professions either use MacBooks or ThinkPads.

    • @mycatiskai@lemmy.one
      23•2 years ago

      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.

    • @float@feddit.de
      3•2 years ago

      They also knew they shouldn’t give him a keyboard because he’d crash that thing in no time while bragging about how much he knows about IT and all the FANG tech leads who told him how knowledgeable he is.

  • RachelRodent
    23•2 years ago

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

  • @flamboyantkoala@programming.dev
    21•2 years ago

    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.

    • @fosforus@sopuli.xyz
      3•2 years ago

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

    • The CuuuuubeEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      I’m not annoyed at this one. Republic of Gaming and Gaming Laptop are two chunks. ROG is the brand. Gaming Laptop is the product