LOL, you’re vastly overestimating company’s IT abilities, funding and give-a-shit motivation. As to money, now you gotta hire people to watch people. No matter how automated, there’s a cost and additional personnel need.

And if the corporation is technically competent enough to manage all that mess, that’s probably a company with skilled workers who will leave under such conditions.

Saving this one for next time I’m on call for weekend monitoring.

A firewall blocks in and outbound ports. Windows Advanced Firewall already does this.

If you want more fine-grained control, look to your router. I use a Netgate pfSense rackmount appliance. You can do the same with an OpenSense or pfSense router running on a toaster.

Be glad to help if you have questions!

News Flash!

“Linux is still a pain in the ass, even for experienced IT professionals.” More at 11…

I’ve run Linux for a great many things over the years. Running 2 AWS LightSail instances for my own use. Running dozens of Ubuntu Server instances at work. Shit just works.

But Linux is a hard fail for a daily driver. Maybe not for you, but for most of us it sucks.

I’ve tried and tried and tried, for 20+ years. Of course I can make it work, but it’s a pain in the ass. I got work to do on my daily driver, and fucking around as well. I need a desktop that just works. With everything.

accountant no 10-key happy

Why must you fill my thread with lies?

(LOL, your post is truly unexpected.)

AS400s daily

Just changed teams and AS400s will be in my wheelhouse soon. Would an extended function layout be nice?

My god. It’s full of win…

I’d kill for this exact machine on a 105-key deck. Such a base to build on?

My boss sometimes calls my personal cell. But only to get my attention on a thing that needs attention, or something I need to know right then. I always answer because I know it’s important, never bullshit. And that’s how it should be. Also, he takes action when needed, never lets anything sit and fester.

He moves fast and expects his team to do the same, when need be. Fair enough. We also have fewer meetings than any other department. Because we move. I can sit on my ass all day (read: nap), but when it’s time to move, I move. Love the guy. When I started working for him last month, “I do not micromanage my people. If you find yourself being micromanaged, I’m already looking for your replacement.” Getting my feet back on the ground after being micromanaged for 4-years. :)

Kinda disagree on email communications. We use Slack effectively. Mostly. Problem is, many of us, me included, allow it to distract us. People tend to expect instant response from a DM. I don’t check email often, and I’m sure that annoys some people. But you’re 100% right on tracking the conversation. OTOH, you can track conversations in Slack almost as well. Email for external customers. DMs for internal. Works for me.

Learning to turn Slack off for a period of time, or block my calendar. Boss encourages this! “HR wants our personal reviews in this week. Block out an hour or three on your calendar and do it.”

Was on a team trying to kick this around, figure out some kinda policy. Never really got agreement or traction. Seems it boils down to social skills. I know the VP isn’t approving my purchases until early evening. Gotta poke her if I need action. I know $manager isn’t looking at his DMs, but he is looking at group channels. I know $dev is not going to answer me for a day if I Slack him.

All over the place on this post. Guess we just have to learn how we each work, roll with it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Friend of a friend had a sailboat named “Sail Hatin’”. Much love.

I cannot believe lemmy didn’t drag you out in the alley and beat your ass for that comment. Any notion that, gasp, meeting people in person can be useful is anathema 'round here.

Our teams meet at the main office about once a year. I hate flying and being away for a week, but it’s still pretty fun. Free drinks and food! And no one will touch the Keystone I leave in the office fridge.

We learn about each other, makes us closer as a team. Plus, we meet the others who wander in and out the office. Sometime people come in just to meet us.

I think they did it quarterly, but I started right before COVID, not sure. But every 3-months is too damned disruptive for too little benefit.

My experience with Zoho is out of date, but I was happy with them several years ago.

I’m fine with Google everything ATM. I keep local backups and Google Drive for offsite. 2TB for ~$100/yr. I think? I have one weird issue with Drive, but I don’t expect much support as it’s probably my fault/misunderstanding. Plus, it all works well with our (wife’s) Androids. Easy sharing, all that.

We use Google at work for our IdP and that’s been nice for a distributed work force. OTOH, no centralization kinda sucks. My team may be enforcing Active Directory this year. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Maybe we can pair on this and learn together? Love to investigate Zoho gain. Always looking for new solutions and Zoho never turned me off.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

Because the 1999 story is the origin of this talk.

This internet myth has got to die. ONE case in ONE department, a quarter century ago, does not mean it’s a practice.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-connecticut-judge-rules-that-police-can-bar-high-iq-scores.html

LOL, I’ve had that buried for so long I had to hunt for it to see what OP was talking about. Talk about a non-issue.

Lots of cleaning advice, but let me add this bit: If you crack it open and use a can of air on it, unplug the CPU fan first. Super easy if you’ve gone that far.

Edge is my daily driver and has been for a couple of years. Seems faster than Chrome, but maybe that’s just my perception.

I think these haters are hating because Microsoft. Or, they’re too ignorant to realize Edge is Chrome under the hood.

PS was built from the ground up to be intuitive. There are some interesting videos from the MS devs talking about the design process.

Edge is my daily driver, work and play. Fight me.

It eats all my RAM

Mine doesn’t. But I see Chrome users suffering daily. No idea why there’s a difference.

The job I was talking about was IT at a payroll company. Running payroll can be surprisingly complex, so most small businesses farm it out to a employee leasing place, let them hassle with the regulations. Lot’s more to it than multiplying hours by pay rate.

But it sounds like they were farming it out? Sending hours and pay rates to an accountant?

We’re a software dev, and despite the low turnover, we’re constantly growing and hiring. Not easy to pull in solid devs because it’s such a competitive field. HR earns their money in my outfit. We’ve needed a new security person in DevOps for 2-months, haven’t heard a peep from the boss about candidates.

But yeah, I feel you on the useless HR people. When I say our director was so dumb and useless, I really meant we thought she had blackmail on the owner. We were not joking, it was the only explanation that made sense.