They aren’t talking about the cheap ones you’re seeing that are new.

They are talking about the off lease laptops. Many of the business grade laptops have user replaceable batteries - literally a slide switch to release.

Yeah, definitely didn’t catch it, too early.

I haven’t seen the second season yet myself.

They did a second season, but there were three books.

Excellent series

And outdated perceived value of presence - that in-office behavior can be more strictly monitored and controlled, that it leads to increased productivity, and that the social aspect leads to more company commitment.

Aside from direct visibility of behavior, none of these are true. Productivity generally increases without the commute, with the ability to make a lunch in your own homes, etc, due to the reduction in stress. Studies have shown it to be a win-win, but outdated management styles that still dominate at the top end of management doesn’t believe or doesn’t care.

Pretty much all of mine are just tiny/mini/micros. The stack of 6 or so in my rack power everything I run (aside from my desktop, but I do have Linux vms and a Mac mini for app builds).

No issues so far.

Storage is all on my NAS, one for things like media server content, my dev work, pictures, etc, and one that’s a backup to that NAS. Only thing remote is my second level of backup.

8th gen Intel and up is pretty great for proxmox IMO.