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I think one of the largest Intel fabs is in Israel for god's sake. We really do excels as a species don't we.

Who would potential reselling business idea

"I have a compulsion to buy laptops but only when they're less than $100"

So what they should have said is to make the image negative.

That's being a standard image editing function since the days of film but you have to use the correct terminology.

If he's ill and that's why he's working from home and this is not a usual thing then he's not going to have a KVM is he

Give them a bad review on glassdoor. Really drive the knife in.

Work shouldn’t distrust employees this much

If he's using an RDP connection then it's not about work not trusting him, it's about him leaving all the defaults on. Standard behavior for RDP connections is for the computer to essentially just take commands from a remote mouse and keyboard as if they are commands from the local peripherals.

The computer doesn't know anything about the remote connection, so it's just operating as usual which is why everyone can see the screen, because under normal operations that's but a computer does.

The email is just advising him to maybe change some of the settings so that it doesn't behave as default.

Nope. If I have to wander around going to various work sites and getting the laptop rained on, baked by the sun, sprinkled with dust and grass cuttings, and generally getting kicked about it's going to be a work device not my own.

My manager did that but he had the porn side open on a different tab. He spent the entire presentation not noticing.

Remote connections have being a thing since before Windows, so they really don't have "boomers" as an excuse. Lacking the critical thinking skills of a dung beetle is more what I was thinking

I work in the IT department for my company so I know for a fact that there's no monitoring on the work laptops, which is super strange but whatever.

Still I wouldn't use the work laptop for anything other than work activities because despite the fact I 100% know there's no monitoring I still don't trust it. Besides, It's unprofessional, and although I don't really care about that all that much, it's good to get into the habit of not doing personal activities on a work laptop, because one day they might start monitoring, and this way I'm already in the habit of not doing anything personal.

Yeah this is a pretty weird setup they've got going on.

Like you say they're going to be remoting onto their work computer and then having their remote connection remote onto another remote terminal server.

It's a holographic holodeck all over again.

Wait they didn't give you a laptop? If they want you to work remotely they really should be giving you a device.