From the downvotes it seems like many people might be this:

I would love a suggestion for a ups that could tolerate running off my generator when the power is out for extended periods, anyone have a decently priced recommendation?

I don’t think that’s a bad extension of the analogy

Yeah, I have one of those and love it. I use it between PC, SteamDeck and Switch all the time

Thanks for all of the suggestions!

Right now our guidance is that each developer is given a namespace and a helm chart to install and the wording is such that developers wouldn’t think of it as an ephemeral resource (ie. people have their helm installation up for months, and periodically upgrade it).

It would be nice to have user’s do a fresh install each time they “start” working, and have some way to automatically remove helm installations after a time period, but we do have times where it’s nice to have a longer-lived env because you’d working within some accumulated state.

Maybe there’s something to automatically scaling down workloads on a cadence or after a certain time period, but it would be challenging to figure out the triggers for that.

Others have said it already, but I love my Framework laptop. I have one of the first gen ones, running Ubunut, and I’m looking forward to upgrading it to the new AMD motherboard they’re releasing later this year. The fact that they have upgrade paths for their laptops is amazing.