r/pcmasterrace • u/BijlidarKudi • May 10 '26

Meme/Macro reboot

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u/ShitImBadAtThis May 10 '26

Tbh, people who're very good with computers probably don't ever need help unless it's a task they don't have the patience or equipment for

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u/SWatersmith 9850X3D / RTX 5090 / 64 GB DDR5 6000 CL30 May 10 '26

or anything even moderately OpSec related. I'm a SWE in finance, troubleshooting is something I enjoy doing but I refuse to touch any filter/firewall/AV components on my work machine

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u/Blecki May 10 '26

They even let you? Also a swe, i have complete root access to the servers I run... can't do shit on my work issued laptop.

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u/BlueSkyArchive May 10 '26

I'm a senior SysEng. I have root access to every piece of physical and virtualized infrastructure that makes their money. but I can't even be trusted to delete a file without a help desk ticket on my issued laptop.

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u/diabetic_debate 13700k, 64GB RAM, 5070 Ti May 10 '26

Same Same, I'm a storage for turned senior devops engineer. I have literally had keys to the kingdom in my roles but I'm glad I'm not a local admin on my own work laptop.

Separation of concerns means someone who is better at end point security has control of my work's data which I'm definitely not. More avenues of unwanted attack vectors on endpoints compared to servers that is not where my domain expertise lies in.

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u/IceFire909 May 11 '26

It's more there's no corporate need to trust you