credittw2021
This does lead me to an interesting question, that being whether one could make orange juice from frozen concentrate that is 'better' than store bought and reconstituted at a factory
My brother makes about what I do, but he is an MBA and a plant manager with background in logistics.
Sometimes he gets calls and has to go in to work. Hell there has been at least one instance where he had to drop everything and courier a bag of parts on a commercial flight so a line wouldn't stop.
That said, I have worked in 'abusive' on call environments. I.e. we had a system that would break at least once a week between 3am and 6am (like, multiple times in that period). But because the oncall labor to remediate was 'free', fixing the problem was never a priority over the 2 years I worked there.
Back in they day, they went out of their way to use non ATX power supplies.
My first xps desktop was utterly incapable of having all of its drive bays used without said drives cooking to premature failure.
My current work XPS laptop will downclock to 800mhz when chromium has hardware acceleration enabled. Other colleagues have had multiple laptops replaced because theirs downclocked when plugged into AC.
Dell is no better in quality than most of the MFGs who died in the 90s and 00s.
(As a random aside, I loved how HP would use a nice ASUS mobo and then trash everything else back in the day. We used to joke those little cases were what an Antec 1080 pooped out)