About the only excuse I’ve heard is something about some network security setup on our laptops that if they don’t join the network within a certain timeframe they’re locked out and have to go back to the mother ship for reimaging.
The tech running the upgrades that failed really did say it bricked them. No boot to fail safe mode ... dead.
And the new mothership is in NJ after they bought us up a few years ago. I visited one of the data centers in PA shortly after the buyout.
LOL. Ahh the joys of large corporate IT.
Because taking the SSD out here in CO and slamming an image on it hooked to another machine... is less secure than doing it in NJ.
I love some of the silliness companies come up with in the name of security. Truly is impressive how far off of logical it can go off the rails.
Somewhere ten people sat in a conference room and nodded their agreement that it sounded like a great plan. And next quarter they’ll wonder why the department shipping costs are so high. Won’t even make the connection. Hahaha.
I bet they’re using the TPM module to store/encrypt WiFi credentials. Heh. Whole bunch of ways to kick yourself in the head really hard with TPM settings and Bitlocker.
“It’s so secure it doesn’t work anymore.” Which is kinda what you want if it’s stolen, but not so smart during an OS upgrade. Or worse, set to self destruct for something as completely normal as... a network being down. LOL LOL LOL
It’s funny. One of my biggest pet peeves are IT people who write code or design systems that assume the network is always available and working properly.
Of course I bought a couple of vacuum robots that literally can’t be operated without internet, because their data for where NOT to go in the house to destroy things is ONLY stored in the “cloud”. Not a single reviewer of the damn things mentioned this in at least ten reviews I watched. Just said the no-go feature “worked great!” #^*!%*+=!!!!!
Product reviewers apparently have fiber internet and not rural jackass microwave internet. Should have known. They upload video... lots of video... damn it. Ha.
Here’s today’s fun. Walking up and down my stairs six or eight times trying to get the robot back on the internet so I could run it... to save myself time and effort. And not walking my stairs. Or vacuuming. LOL.
And what did I eventually find? The robot company managed to get themselves added to a DNS Real Time Block list for malicious network behavior! Hahaha. My firewall was like, “Nope. These ass hats don’t belong on the internet. They’re that bad.” LOL.
Sigh. Whitelisted. Someone else will have to fight the good fight on that one. I need the stupid carpet vacuumed. Hahaha.
What moron doesn’t just store the no-go data into the robot after it’s created on the phone? Sheesh. No. It makes more sense to have the vacuum cleaner ask a server farm for it every single time it runs.
Brilliant.
It’s embarrassing to be in the same industry as people that stupid. A vaccuum that can’t operate without internet. Not a vacuum that uses internet to add nifty features that will work when the internet is down. No. It literally won’t work without it.
And sadly the things are better designed and engineered than anything else on the market. And do a pretty damn good job... when there’s internet. LOL. They even... get this... have a LOCAL API which is another reason I went with them. No internet needed to control them, right???
Wrong. You tell them to start with the flag set to use those no-go zones when the internet it down, they fail. Because they can’t download the data. Again. For the five hundredth time this year.
Gah. I swear Steve Jobs was correct to throw things at these types of people and tell them to think harder and do it over.
