I was going through a whole process for this remote position where I had to verify if my device met their hardware requirements, and it doesn’t… meaning that the only thing preventing me from getting this job was literally just not having good enough equipment, as the hiring manager confirmed we would start the onboarding process immediately so long as my hardware met the requirements.

Ugh.

I usually would have a lot to say, but something feels extremely eerie about literally being this close. I can’t say much else.

The only way I can really undo this is to get a new PC within 30 days, which is not really an option for me, so I just gotta move on.

Update: Through some power settings, I manage to bump up the processor speed. I reached back out to the recruiter to see if we can proceed. I will let you all know how this goes.

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Reminds me of when the Athlon 64 came out! The Pentium 4 was destroying Athlon processors in performance but it ran so hot hitting 2, 3, 4GHz… Then the Athlon 64 drops and being able to do more instructions per clock cycle, ran at a like 30+% “slower” clock speed but performed significantly better. Then the 64x2 comes out and murders the Pentium D. Things were bad for Intel until they plopped out the Core series and THAT rocked.

    But yah, if I clocked my CPU now down under 2GHz, it would still perform incredibly for day-to-day tasks! A requirement for an SSD OS drive is my main requirement for any computer now.