Discussing buying wi-fi chips at work to ship to customers
I remark we can use an Intel AX200/201
$coworker replies "no. Just the 200"
I explain the (minor) difference between the two
She fucking copy pasted the Google Slop Machine replying about CNVi instead of PCI-E and that it would cause issues
Of course if she'd read the extremely short Wikipedia article on CNVi she'd see it's supported on Intel chips since the 8th gen series in 2017
...We're using Intel CPUs from 2024
This shit just fucking *exhausts* me
I'm very much a "hardware guy". I am worthless at writing software. But I can (and do) bore people to tears with hardware minutiae all day. I've tripped over and summarily *forgotten* more hardware quirks than most normal people will ever have to reckon with
But now people who are not "hardware people" can get a plausible sounding answer to punt an email back over the fence about why not to do some trivial thing because they don't understand the ecosystem
@CursedSilicon I'd literally call up HR and tell them that this bs needs to stop.
@kkarhan It's a company of a dozen people and she's the Sysadmin. I'm also "the new guy"
Arguably, I build the fucking things. So I better have a decent knowledge of hardware. But it feels like a tedious "nerd fight" every time I opine on hardware at all
(I've already been sat down and told to stop asking about touching or setting up infrastructure. Very "stay in your lane" kind of energy)
@CursedSilicon Then I guess talking to HR is unavoidable at a certain point.
@kkarhan I mean we don't have HR. We have my boss who is the COO.
I deeply enjoy where I've landed, work wise. It's just the intellectual tug-of-war with the "one other tech person" is kinda tiring
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Kevin Karhan 