As someone who just had a one shot with three couples and one guy who murderhoboed until he had to leave to take care of his pregnant wife, I find this stereotype funny as hell.
Damn. I hope that place paid enough to deal with that nonsense. My place doesn't care if I'm completely naked as long as I take calls, respond to tickets, and get the work done. Then again we're also permanent wfh minus the odd onsite here and there
The dead man switch at one of my last places was the companies incompetence and lack of forethought.
When I left, I told them that the files for their system that I designed, built, and maintained was on the laptop I was returning to them.
They wiped it.
They also had zero clue how to use the programs I had nor any other aspect of that system so they really shot themselves in the foot then shot their other one to test of the first one hurt
Assuming you don't live in a food desert.... Or have a baby that requires more milk than you can produce.... Or have a pet that requires a particular diet....
Honestly, get the flux and a hot air station instead, imo. Then again, I prefer being able to have control over where the heat is going instead of reflowing everything at once
Might as well add some picos to scratch that itch.
And the rabbit hole that micro controllers bring.... next thing you know, your work desk is also a solder station, a hot air station, PCB design, circuit design, and you've got two extra diy printers in various state of being built/rebuilt
Sometimes it's less about the person that you're targeting and more about what that access gives you.
Low level accountant? Office worker with an excel file full of passwords or has correspondence with your actual target at a different company that you can pose as to gain access into?
Can we currently see a reason for it with its current abilities/functions? No
But
We can look right at the history of conventional computing to predict a possible timeline for it.
Single purpose computational machines that took a lot of power, a lot of room, and were fairly rare. Used for military or research purposes.
Multi purpose machines that could run user created calculations and were slightly smaller and efficient. Begins to be used in more academic settings
Multipurpose machines capable of being used to aid general office staff, continue to become more compact and efficient
Portability becomes possible for select few with a need
And so on until we arrive to now where nearly everything and everyone has a computer
I think it'll take a new component/circuit design for quantum to be viable for home computing similar to the transformation that happened to computers after the addition of the transistor
It's a tool to aid in creating a product, not a tool that magics out a finished product. That's my point.
Too many people use it as the latter instead of the former.
As someone who just had a one shot with three couples and one guy who murderhoboed until he had to leave to take care of his pregnant wife, I find this stereotype funny as hell.