• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Argue with IT that it takes 4 minutes for their new machine to confirm I typed the password correctly.

    I do this every day. They are telling me it is a security measure. I hate our IT dept.

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
    15·
    4 days ago

    I have to for work and I’m genuinely considering putting together a presentation about how big of a HIPAA problem it is for us to have ai integration everywhere.

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’m pretty sure that can be disabled with Active Directory shenanigans and whatnot. I have to use Windows for work as well, in a HIPAA-esque-compliant manner, and I never see the constant AI integrations that people often complain about in Windows. I know our IT team heavily modifies and manages our Windows environments for us.

  • Cambionn@feddit.nl
    3·
    3 days ago

    It depends why I need to use it.

    To help someone on their Windows computer with an otherwise unrelated issue? I just help them. Pushing Linux unasked all the time just pushes people away. Better keep it for when that is a relevant answer to their problem.

    If my boss decides Linux is no longer an option? I would fiercly contest it, but if that’s to no avail I would seriously consider switching jobs. Even outside worries about loosing sovereignity I simply won’t be very happy working on Windows every day.

    I see no reason of this happening at my personal devices. If something doesn’t run on Linux I just don’t use it, same for hardware that’s incompatible with it. Worked well for years now, never felt like I missed out much.

  • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    I have to for work, most of my job is in the cloud but I still find myself going “fucking windows goddamn shitty operating system” every once in a while. And man when I do have to use powershell damn is that shit ass

    • black0ut@pawb.social
      3·
      2 days ago

      A coworker put it better than I ever could:

      “Microsoft is the only company which has ever managed to make a shell that takes 10 seconds to autocomplete”

      And I think that’s poetry.

      (Yes, I know there are many more reasons why pwsh sucks, but there’s beauty in the simplicity of this one)

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 days ago

    Imagining if trusted computing became legally enshrined and windows was the gateway to the internet. Would keep my use of it to a minimum, perhaps to fulfill work obligations, do taxes, pay bills, etc. and save anything that didn’t need the internet for another machine running Linux. I’d also consequently make much greater use of my hoarded media and ebooks.

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      In that case wouldn’t we just make local networks with our family, and then maybe neighbors. Just have a network that’s not connected to the Internet but still connected to each other. I think we’d just have couple of programming tools, make things, and still use computers, but just the way it was in the beginning, and with everyone making their own things.

      Maybe there’d be people using long distance communication protocols to make something that is not the current Internet. Unless that becomes illegal. But can radio waves be illegal? We just need to transmit data somehow