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[–] [email protected] 127 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I also work from home and use my work laptop for work only. Not even googling stuff, nothing. Just work. Never even opened the media player or went to youtubes website once.

I have my own computer running on a separate screen and I can do and watch whatever the fuck I want during working hours. I can play a game or watch a movie and nobody knows. Its that simple.

Same with phones. Never use work phone for personal stuff.

Its not even being tech savvy, just common sense ffs.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit 15 points 6 months ago

This is the way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Same here. It also removes some hassle when changing jobs. All of your personal stuff is on the computer you own and all of the work stuff is on the the computer the company owns. Just turn in your work laptop and you're done with that place and on to the next.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Additionally, never connect your phone to the company WiFi

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Definitely if they require you to use sso, but if it's just guest wifi that anyone with a password can access, I wouldn't worry about monitoring.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why is he watching it inside the remote connection window instead of his own browser?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand how it's such an impossible concept for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You'll understand more as you age

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks Gary,

Now that I know you can see me, I can wank much better.

Best, Calum

[–] Swemg 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What? There's not even a "your" in the comment you replied to. Well done, you've gone full dumb dumb.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

It's misspelled in the image. The message you're replying to is meant to be read as if it's part of the one above it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The mistake is in the original message in the post itself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The comment was edited. It is very well possible it did have one in it

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

PS Can you help me figure out how to get my camera up over there?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have been working from home for years and my employer is not watching our screen. However about a decade ago we received a company wide email from an admin reminding everyone that they can see DNS requests when we're connected to the VPN.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

Thats why i have a laptop for work, solely for work, nothing but work right next to my big rig

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like he's remoting into the computer in the office from another computer at home (pretty common in IT since you probably have admin tools perfectly configured on that computer and specifically configured for its network config) but with Windows Remote Access it lets the person physically at the computer see everything by default. But i would really hope that someone in IT would be painfully aware of why you shouldn't do sensitive personal browsing on a work computer or a work network

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't RDP that often to physical devices, but I'm pretty damn sure the default settings for RDP forcefully logs/locks out your user on the physical device and only your lock screen is visible. I have never tried it but I'm also pretty sure it's possible to have two logged in users at once, one using RDP and one using the physical device.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

pretty common in IT

I've never heard of anyone in IT regularly remoting to their work computer.

If we remote anywhere it is to a jump host, and those are terminal servers, so no monitor connected.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Remember anything you do on a company pc is probably contractually property of the company. So not only should you never use your company pc for private browsing you should never do anything on it besides your work for the company.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago

Hey Gary, could you help me? I couldn’t find out how to get you camera access too.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The hilarious thing is how understanding they were about it. xD

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

Why would you ever do anything besides work on a work computer? Noob.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

People in this thread who question critical thinking skills but fail to identify the most obvious staged content of the week on lemmy.

Thanks

Gary

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Habitually using your own machine for non-work tasks often lets you keep certain records of the research process which begat the work, even while the client/employer owns the work itself through SLA/NDA/AOI. This typically includes records contributing to general “personal expertise,” such as query history, bookmarks, generalized notes, and other non-proprietary information.

It also lends to an overall impression of professional sprezzatura when the client can only see a history of master strokes, without the nitty-gritty details of your autodidactic effort.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

sprezzatura

In short: professional rizz

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oooooo, good word.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The lack of an apostrophe for “Can see you’re logged in” is unreasonably irritating to this grammatical pedant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Gary must have been in a hurry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For sure, that is also one hell of a run-on sentence in that main block of text. Dude could do with some proper punctuation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Gary needs more heckling.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

that's not a lack of apostrophe. your is just a different word. if there were a lack of apostrophe it would have said youre.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Calum: I can't come in today, but boy am I gonna cum.

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