Are you biking around this time too?

Yes, including a bunch of bikepacking coming up.

Have you given yourself a written warning? 😉

discipline is very important!

worse than a written warning. I actually feel bad about it

the pitfalls of misplaced oriented programming

We have that on our company issued macbooks

I have stopped using my company laptop for anything remotely related to personal stuff.

I stll have the ability to install apps (my user has admin rights), but that could go at any time (not that they've said it will - but it could!)

Like I wrote about in another thread, at my previous workplace, you'd have to wait weeks, months to get permission to install things. That was dreadful

agreed. for a computer programmer who probably has to install a whole range of tooling (at any time) it's a very bad experience.

The usually just apply default-everyone-is-a-computer-noob-so-dont-give-anyone-any-permission-for-anything policies.

They don't get it, that there are power users out there.

Yeah 😞

(reminds me of a time that I worked for a (now defunct) bank in the UK - I had to get a form signed by 3 people to gain access outside of the company firewall for websites - couldn't even access stack overflow! or any google links tht a search result returned)

I didn't stay long at that job.

I get that. I hope this won't force me out of my current job. Even with all of the current bureaucracy, I quite like it

The saddest thing was that when they installed Intune (and the company policies), it replaced my nice soothing wallpaper with the default company one - which is grey with a huge red logo on it.

That depressed me the most.

made me the saddest

I can imagine. Way to kill any joy and creative spirit.

yup

Security teams walking around with solutions in search of problems

My condolences, @U0AQ3HP9U .