Post #3831206

2026-07-15 06:30 UTC

To be fair, there's also a massive chunk of loss of control that I'm freaking out over, I guess. As it stands, I can install whatever I want, and use this PC however I want. Going forward, if I get moved onto a new system, I'm going to have to ask permission to install the useful little plugins and tools that I currently use that no one else in the organisation has ever heard of. And it's possible that that permission won't be granted, because the guy who's now in charge of it doesn't see the need. Also, up until yesterday afternoon I was under the impression that I'd be allowed to carry on as I have been. We even listed my Kubuntu machine on the Cyber Essentials form we filled in at last week's meeting on the subject. I figured that once MS365 was rolled out, I'd be given the opportunity to figure out how to make it fit into my workflow. But yesterday it became apparent that that's probably not to be the case.

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@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org 2026-07-15 06:56

What's particularly galling is that there's no real reason for the change, beyond "It's what everyone else is doing". I never, ever go to them for IT support unless it's something that I literally can't access because it requires network admin privileges to allow on my PC. Things like trying to get it to work with the office printer, or asking for my dashboard server to be given a static IP. All the while I'm at this company, there's no reason why I can't carry on the way I am. Then when I leave, the PC can be wiped and set up with Windows for the next person to use. I'm sensible enough to not ask them to allow any weird, sketchy shit, and they ought to know that by now. But it's not personal, they're just taking the (reasonable) view that if everyone has the same PCs running the same software, then support will be much easier. But it leaves me feeling like I've been lied to.

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