Why would you rather stay on 18.1?

AMD testing the waters?

The first time was purely a grift, this time it is a grift on top of a revenge.

Weird, I didn’t realize I had migrated from Sweden to the US…

I like your optimism, but I won’t put my hopes in it.

Trump has shown that he is completely unhinged this time, he is out for blood and plenty of it.

“What would I be appologizing for?”

Just one thing, lying and claiming that you accomplished the progress in the games yourself.

I am so glad that I have blocked .ml and grad

That deserves a slap

My past role was a combined role of these:

Helpdesk technician
VIP technician
Linux system administrator

We didn’t effectively administrate the Linux environment, I was the only linux admin at the company, and I wasn’t even doing it full time.

In an ideal world I agree with you, but when resources are limited, running a separate environment is not allways realistic.

A machine that takes extra time and skills to manage?

IT guy here, if we gave developers the option to exclude whatever the hell they wanted from AV scanning it would just mean that we would end up with computers where the entire C: drive would be excluded.

No, can’t have that.

So what should a decent IT department do to give developers the access they need to do their job while maintaining a decent level of security?

Well, the least bad solution I have worked with was to have a non generic path that was excluded by policy.

Something like C:\Excluded

The directory was excluded from AV scan and allowed in policy, the user could put what they needed there and it would be fine.

Oh yeah, that makes sense, thanks!

I have heard that some TVs attempt to connect to every WiFi they can find using default credentials even if you never connect it yourself

Bitlocker is designed to aid against phyiscal attacks, so physical access is a given.

Tell me that the entity overseeing this infrastructure replied with “lol no”

That is a fair answer.

Though I would hesitate to use your trust in your own ISP and VPN as a blanket statement for trust with regards to other’s setup

Most people outside of the US does absolutely have a choice of their ISP.

That is idiotic.

VPNs absolutely have their places.

But if you don’t trust your ISP, why would you trust your VPN service with all your internet data?