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> A lot of corporates still _kind_ of live in the past, hearkening back to a time when a three year old laptop was largely unusable With the amount of nannywar
by Swizec 3y ago
> A lot of corporates still _kind_ of live in the past, hearkening back to a time when a three year old laptop was largely unusable
With the amount of nannyware and spyware these corporations load up on your laptop it actually does feel pretty unusable. The difference in performance between my personal 4 year old laptop and my corporate 3 year old laptop is ridiculous.
The corporate laptop has so many antiviruses and stuff running all the time that it feels like a 2000’s era windows machine that’s been exposed to the internet for too long.
- cebert 3y agoMy work makes us Delinea (Thycotic) PAM which is single process and blocks all OS calls to check if you have privilege to run/execute a command. Additionally, we have to run CrowdStirke, Netspoke, Windows Defender, and some type of “inventory scanner” app. My work laptop is much more powerful than any of my personal personal computers on paper, but the nannyware slows everything to a halt (64 GB RAM, 12 cores). It’s very painful to not have local admin rights on a Windows machine if you’re a developer. We can’t even install Docker or make changes to it without “help” from our non-developer IT staff.
- phatskat 3y agoOur dev machines (mostly Mac) are also locked down, thankfully we have “Admin By Request” which works better than calling in IT at least. Fire up an ABR session, do your admin stuff, close the session. A minor hassle and it gives IT a paper trail for later (and probably pings someone if certain software names come up during a session).