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  • Because all of what you’ve listed is easily managed at an enterprise level. It sounds like your Windows admins are lazy, or you have executives that actually like those shitty features. I’ve seen that happen before too.

    None of what you’ve listed besides start menu web search is enabled at my workplace.

    I’ll agree 1000% that a lot of those settings don’t need to be locked behind admin rights though, and there should be an easier way for enterprise admins to leave more of these settings up to their end-users.




  • More features for our employee account lifecycle automations. The coding isn’t as much the hard part as keeping track of all the different moving pieces and how it all interacts.

    For example, when using Azure Enterprise App user provisioning to sync data into AD from an HR system, it can only set the Name (separate from DisplayName) property when creating a new user. This limitation isn’t documented anywhere I can find, and it doesn’t even show as an error in the logs when it tries to update an existing one and fails.


    It’s the curse of “one man army”: this shit is too complicated to keep it all in my head at one time, and also too complicated to bring anyone up to speed in a reasonable time frame. So I’ll continue soldiering on with it on my own. Thankfully the end is in sight.

    Don’t do this sort of shit for any boss that isn’t worth it. Mine has no overtime expectations, is very obviously training me to move upward within the team, and each of the last two years I’ve gotten >10% raises.








  • Yeah, I don’t know why they don’t have the normal “what is this” text from their main page at least at the bottom or something.

    cock.li offers free email service with no personal info needed for signup. They’ve done this for 11 years, with no major outages to my knowledge, relying only on donations without explicitly asking for them or bugging their users.

    I think at some point they also offered paid VPS services.

    Very useful for accounts that you don’t want connected to your other “identities”, but where you’ll still need them associated with a real email for things like password resets.

    It’s also tor friendly.


  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.mlah yes, windows defender
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    10 days ago

    My guy, I’m a grown ass adult that does sysadmin work for a living in a full Windows/Microsoft environment. Just stop. You’re wrong about how Windows works.

    Your meme is simply not how Windows works, unless you intentionally choose to disable the security feature of UAC while leaving Windows Defender on. At that point you’ve accepted the risk that you could do something to break your shit.

    You turned off warnings for all the shit you say Windows sleeps through, but left Windows Defender on which keeps the exe warnings. The only way to get Windows to work the way in this meme is if you configure it in this non-standard way.

    Your willingness to poke around with computers will serve you well, especially in the modern age as people are less willing to do that, but don’t assume you know everything just because you know more than the people around you day to day.



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    11 days ago

    All of those things require admin rights, which is an explicit acceptance that you are now working with things that could fuck your shit up. Modern Windows, unless you disable UAC, asks you to confirm you’re sure you want to use admin rights before you have the opportunity to break any of the shit you claim it’s chill about.

    Running an exe doesn’t require admin rights, hence the extra warnings. Plus a malicious exe could do all that shit without asking for admin first through a privilege escalation exploit.

    I swear, people find more uninformed shit to complain about with Windows every day.


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    11 days ago

    If all else fails, you can try using whatever the lastest community supported fork of Universal Android Debloater is. It uses ADB to remove bloatware, which bypasses vendor locks on keeping certain apps installed.

    Obviously no real replacement for custom ROMs, but it’s better than nothing.