Ok. I know this has nothing to do with layoffs. I just need to vent.
My 5 year old work PC su-ks. Takes 15 mins to boot and startup my apps. Then slow slow the rest of the day. Need to reboot once in a while. I just want to get my work done.
Going to IT somehow made it worse.
I miss PC refresh.
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It's not the PC. Bought a $200 used laptop on eBay, about 3 years older than my work PC with lower specs, but installed a non garbage OS (Fedora Linux) and it's overall way more responsive than my work PC. It's all the cr-p IT installs on the system that makes it feel slow.
@cd Thankfully I had a "workaround" where CrowdStrike would never run ;)
Even when IT tried pushing the CrowdStrike installer, it would just fail every time.
@c7 but its secure and now “safe for you to go fast” Isn’t that the information security motto.
The slow down started when they installed CrowdStrike on all IT systems back in 2019-2020. That Piece of Software (POS) is the start of many software that has impacted performance. It even made my Workstation CPU, high performance CPU, slow down to a crawl to where it was unusable. I manage to deal with the CrowdStrike software and performance issues went away.
I'm not surprised its gotten worse the last few years.
If it run smoothly then they dont have a job OP. Layoff news will make them to slow down your PC more. Don't you know Intel culture about job security?
that computer spends more time playing with itself than you do
How else are the dweebs in IT going to monitor your usage of company property? I remember once a yahoo ad triggered a false positive for their virus scan. Had to deal with an angry fuming nerd sending screenshots of me checking my portfolio during his "investigation". Haha so glad I don't work with those losers anymore!