A lot of this is often down to shitty IT practices by the vendor who has little IT knowledge let alone decent security insight.

I helped support a new PCL installation (technician control PCs and software upgrade) in this exact scenario many years ago. The vendor came in expecting to treat our system as their own. Direct remote access to several over-specced, physical servers from the outside world, available on our core network, shared account names (and passwords!) across all devices, every account a local admin and their own domain admin account so they can make changes as required… Needless to say our security guy almost broke a rib from laughing so hard!

What they got was very different. I ended up doing fairly basic troubleshooting to get the shitty software working without it needing admin rights to run - XP era software running on Win7 clients so it was meeting basic folder and reg key write permissions - everything else was locked down as tight as we could. They didn’t even get admin on the servers.

A few years later I heard they’d reported that our site was their most reliable. Probably due to the fact that they (or the techs) couldn’t fuck with anything without our permission. Apparently their original configuration is normal in the industry… Shudder

Private equity firm you say!? I expect EA will be dead within 5 years and their carcass of IP sold for scrap on the used market.

Absolutely, I’m seeing so much “oh, we got tricked! We’re innocent victims too!” narrative coming out of all these fucksheads. Names of those actively spreading these lies and propaganda are recorded and jail is too good for them.

I would wage good money that very few millennials are buying new cars

“Yousa no tinken yousa greater den da Gungans? Mesa like dis. Maybe wesa… bein’ friends”

I jumped ship around a year ago after similar update BS frustrations. I had tried Ubuntu a few times over the years but didn’t like their shift to Unity or later choices.

When I did make the jump, I ran Bazzite for the first 3-4 months as the immutability let me gain confidence that I wouldn’t break something and showed me just how easy Linux gaming has become.

I loved Bazzite but gradually encountered more things that were harder to do because of the immutability and a couple of software packages that didn’t play nice with flatpak so I pivoted to KDE Fedora and love it to bits. It still plays all the games I need it to and super stable.

A rally of miscellaneous assortment of people of all shapes, sizes, haircuts and colours proudly waving their flags in support of everyone “ANTIFA!!”

The same middle aged white guy dressed like a failed interviewee for Costco’s middle-manager program and the same shitty military-wannabe haircut barking about right-wing talking points just copy-pasted a few hundred times? “ALSO ANTIFA!!”

Gear changes in cars. Any car racing or high speed chase these cars are always accelerating and changing through endless gears despite being on a long straight.

Except Ronin, Ronin does it well since the chase is in the city and they’re always slowing to avoid objects turn down alleyways etc so going through the gears over and over actually makes sense!

It’s covered in the article

When his first term ended, you could almost taste the relief that he never managed to do anything terrible and its like it was a 4-year lesson the world had to learn… Then the dipshits in charge failed to put the diaper-stain in jail to rot for his corruption.

I feel this deep. Coming around full circle over the past 30-odd years.

Cutting my teeth mucking around and learning DOS 5 with friends on my families first PC, they were directories. Migrating to a support career where everything is stored in folders and now coming out the other side abandoning windows altogether and I’m back to calling everything directories again!

At this point, I’m convinced that his face isn’t makeup or bronzer but rather an accident resulting from a golden shower he received from a underaged Russian girl who was on some kind of supplement that turned her pee bright orange

Yes, this works well!

I did this with my mates at the pub once a month. An hour or two over a quiet beer, no pressure, just a casual catch-up if you could make it. Couldn’t get everyone each month but across the year we had seen everyone much more than normal

It’s an alien, kill it, kill it!

Stop, it’s not an alien, it’s DT

Aww, it’s DT… KILL IT!! KILL IT!!

This is the way. It’s still an acquired taste but each variant of *mite and from different countries is a different take.

I’ve seen videos of Americans who slap on the *mite like Nutella - they’re gonna have a bad time even if they love the stuff.

I love me a cunning stunt!

Absolutely, was in the same boat as you.

Got burnt out with the corporate job but now I’ve moved to another discipline, I have my mojo back for messing with PCs.

The last few years I’ve delved into all the things I’ve wanted to but never took the time. I’m all in on Linux from mid-last year - which in itself has reinvigorated my curiosity for everything.

I’ve recently started leaning html to create a basic web page with the intention of joining the indie web, then when I tire off those, I’m keen to contribute to oss projects (support because I can’t code)

Chris Cornell’s cover of Nothing compares to you

And he’s not wearing a suit… Blasphemous!

90% of the NZ population was right behind this… And then the tobacco lobby got their fingers into the govt and they folded like the cheap 1-ply TP they are. Fuckers!