I bought mine a month ago and I am very happy with it so far. The efficiency is very impressive.
I had number of Windows laptops including 2 versions of the earlier Surfaces before and this one finally somehow feels like not having issues with running the OS. If I need Linux, I run WSL on it and it even runs Unreal Engine simple scenes in editor on 60 FPS so I can prepare my lectures on it in the train without needing to use the charger.
Elite, the original one, on Commodore 64.
So at the end I took the risk, bought the Surface Laptop and tried Unreal Engine on it. The result is that it runs fine. With mobile rendering preview it runs stable capped 60 FPS in the 3rd person template project and that is all that I need.
Yes, that is the one I mentioned in my post. It looks alright, I am just checking if I find any confirmation.
This has a side effect of the people who went through the full game development cycle and can help to improve the process of developing of future games with actions based on their experience do not stay in the industry and thus the industry is bound to repeat the same mistakes again and again. I mean, I started working in the gaming 22 years ago, worked there for 7 years, then took 12 years of break elsewhere and now I am back for 3 years. After I returned I was surprised how almost nothing changed. It is still the demo-to-demo sprinting without proper planning or building the technical layers in advance. So the publishers/management is getting more or less faked demos and are always surprised that at some point they get a very badly made piece of software full of bugs and architectural flaws.
I am afraid there is nothing like minimalism when we talk about mobile phones. It is basically all or nothing. I mean, it seems like everybody only thinks about social media apps but I don't care about social media, I want my phone to run apps that control my smart home appliances, contain my public transport tickets, my ID card, my air tickets and other such convenient stuff. Most of these apps basically only exist for iOS or Android and some of them only work when downloaded from the official stores. So any phone achieving minimalism by using custom OS is just unusable for me and is equal to a dumb phone.
Unihertz is not officially supported but you can get LineageOS on it using GSI. I followed this how to: https://www.reddit.com/r/unihertz/comments/16sviga/unihertz_jelly_star_running_great_with_lineageos/
Only recently I started to use Unihertz Jelly Star. I flashed the stock Android 13 with Lineage OS 20.0 and I am very satisfied. Of course, it is the other extreme, as it is really very small but I am able to use it quite well for all I need.
Well, this is so typical of people who just see employees as numbers. How is it possible that a company thinks they have an overemployment problem? Doesn't it mean that the whole company's management is a pile of crap?
Just build your team on people who care, who have time and will to do 1on1s and who can build a culture of trust in your company. Then you will not need to waste money on an algorithmic whip.
Now, if someone comes up with an AI budy who helps with 1on1s and helps to build a culture of trust in a company, let me know, anything else is just waste of time and money solving problems created by crap management.