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The $7000 Laptop for Editing JPEGs in MS Paint
CorporateCulture Post #3096 · source on Telegram

The $7000 Laptop for Editing JPEGs in MS Paint

Description

A four-panel meme that contrasts escalating excitement with a mundane reality. The first three panels use the 'Vince McMahon Reaction' meme format. In the first panel, against the text 'YOU GET A JOB', Vince McMahon looks intrigued. In the second, 'IT'S IN I.T.', he looks ecstatic. In the third, 'THEY GIVE YOU A $7000 LAPTOP', his face is red with glowing eyes, signifying peak excitement. The final panel abruptly switches to the 'It ain't much, but it's honest work' meme, featuring a smiling farmer. The text reads: 'THEY ASK YOU TO EDIT IMAGES FOR THEIR WEBSITE USING PAINT'. The humor comes from the severe anticlimax and the relatable absurdity of corporate environments. It satirizes companies that spend lavishly on high-end hardware to attract tech talent but then completely underutilize both the machine and the employee by assigning them trivial tasks with primitive, inadequate tools like Microsoft Paint

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The laptop has enough power to compile the entire Linux kernel in under 5 minutes, but its primary workload is resizing a 25KB logo and saving it with catastrophic JPEG compression
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The laptop has enough power to compile the entire Linux kernel in under 5 minutes, but its primary workload is resizing a 25KB logo and saving it with catastrophic JPEG compression

  2. Anonymous

    Enterprise logic: approve a 16-core, 128 GB RAM laptop so you can compile the whole microservices fleet locally - then lock the standard image so tight the only thing that can open a PNG is MS Paint

  3. Anonymous

    The real enterprise architecture pattern is the Adapter Pattern: adapting a $7000 M3 Max MacBook Pro's computational prowess to interface with Paint.exe through a Citrix session over VPN, because the Creative Cloud subscription request has been in procurement review since Q2 2019

  4. Anonymous

    The real tragedy isn't using Paint - it's that they'll still file a Jira ticket complaining about the 2-pixel misalignment, then ask why the $7000 laptop can't run their 47 Chrome tabs with 8 Figma files open simultaneously. At least Paint has better version control than their actual version control system

  5. Anonymous

    Enterprise IT: $7k dev laptop locked by GPO, and the only approved graphics app is MS Paint - gold‑plated CapEx, thrift‑store UX; basically Kubernetes for cropping a favicon

  6. Anonymous

    Classic enterprise budgeting: CapEx buys you a 128GB‑RAM laptop, OpEx vetoes the $20/month editor - so the ‘graphics pipeline’ is Paint -> CMS -> 9MB hero.jpg, uncached and recompressed every release

  7. Anonymous

    RTX 4090 renders path-traced logos, but enterprise policy mandates Paint's magic wand - true architectural elegance

  8. @pyproman 5y

    Paint is so resource-intensive these days, Paint also eats about 9 GB of RAM when launched. Note: This comment is a joke about that $7000 laptop

    1. @Eugene1319 5y

      Really?) I cannot believe 😱

  9. @walkersubterra 5y

    А потом ты проснулся

    1. dev_meme 5y

      Please, refrain from the usage of Russian. Only English is ok in this channel discussion/comments

      1. @walkersubterra 5y

        well, only I do not guarantee the correctness of writing and the correct delivery of my thoughts

        1. dev_meme 5y

          That's okay, just do your best and everyone will be happy You will get some practice and everyone will understand your messages. Perfect Win-Win situation

          1. @Sho_Oni 5y

            This rule is so cute, guys~

        2. @beenotung 5y

          Good try, appreciate

      2. @VlP_AI_TG 5y

        Бля, ну ок

      3. @VlP_AI_TG 5y

        Ok

        1. dev_meme 5y

          Thanks in advance

    2. @pyproman 5y

      Translated version: And then you woke up

  10. dev_meme 5y

    Please, refrain from the usage of Russian. Only English is ok in this channel discussion/comments

  11. @TERASKULL 5y

    because

  12. @TERASKULL 5y

    we are not the only ones in this channel, idiot. There are people from multiple countries here also, and it would be great if everyone used a universal language.

    1. @p4vook 5y

      I hate people like you

      1. @TERASKULL 5y

        makes sense lmao. I just asked to be inclusive to foreigners and you hate me.

        1. @p4vook 5y

          Inclusiveness is useless

  13. @p4vook 5y

    +

  14. @TERASKULL 5y

    I don't see a single issue with my grammar though. I think you have problems.

    1. @p4vook 5y

      Well, when have you checked your eyes?

      1. @TERASKULL 5y

        A few weeks ago, have 20/20 vision. Why?

        1. @p4vook 5y

          Then look carefully at what you've said

          1. @TERASKULL 5y

            Please enlighten me, because I clearly cannot see anything wrong

      2. Deleted Account 5y

        see nothin' there too, am i retarded?

        1. @p4vook 5y

          No, it's just him

          1. Deleted Account 5y

            ooh i see

            1. @TERASKULL 5y

              yes, i'm "special" to them lmao

              1. @p4vook 5y

                Of course you are

                1. @p4vook 5y

                  Just look how you behave

                  1. @TERASKULL 5y

                    you have no arguments, you tried pulling the "aha grammar" card, which didn't work, and you say that I "behave"?

  15. @TERASKULL 5y

    they prob never saw written american english before

  16. @TERASKULL 5y

    What did I do, idiot? I'm just following the one single rule of this channel

    1. @p4vook 5y

      Ok I see you don't even have enough IQ to leave comments. You definitely should not disgrace our Mother Russia, you fat capitalist pig

      1. @TERASKULL 5y

        I live in the comments, why should I leave? I'm pretty comfortable here, doing what I like - arguing with smoothbrains.

        1. @p4vook 5y

          I'm ok with you living in comments, I'm glad you've found a place to move from a trash bin

          1. @TERASKULL 5y

            who said this isn't already a trash bin? at least it's not on fire.

          2. @p4vook 5y

            Just to clarify: all of the above was postirony (kind of trolling). Have a nice day!

            1. Deleted Account 5y

              такого панчлайна никто не ожидал)

              1. @p4vook 5y

                Definitely

  17. Deleted Account 5y

    Пишите пожалуйста на русском, мне не понятно.

    1. @p4vook 5y

      ++++

    2. @p4vook 5y

      Dumb capitalist pigs messed up all the channel

    3. Deleted Account 5y

      ,kz htfkmyj? xtk bpdbyb

      1. Deleted Account 5y

        Пасибо

      2. @p4vook 5y

        No swear words pls

        1. @p4vook 5y

          Edit your message and remove one

        2. Deleted Account 5y

          главное сука блять не материться

          1. @p4vook 5y

            * tbsya

            1. Deleted Account 5y

              wanna forget russian for this stupid bs

              1. @p4vook 5y

                Say thanks to the soviet government for language reform

    4. dev_meme 5y

      Please, refrain from the usage of Russian. Only English is ok in this channel discussion/comments Here always was and will be only content in international format

      1. @p4vook 5y

        Why is English only international language?

        1. Deleted Account 5y

          bc bri'ish

        2. dev_meme 5y

          Coz most used over the World

          1. @p4vook 5y

            Chinese bruh

            1. dev_meme 5y

              Yep, if you would like, as European, to use Chinese, you may do so. Just this channel isn’t about it

              1. @p4vook 5y

                So racist! Why do you think ima European?

                1. dev_meme 5y

                  Coz we have your photos

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