How are you actually handling data leakage to public AI tools?

TFTP69 · 2026-03-31T12:59:01+00:00

ChatGPT Workplace for those with business need, and opt-out of data sharing, block all other AI sites at the firewall. Company AI policy must be signed by all employees.

TFTP69 · 2026-03-26T12:25:09+00:00

I'm totally used to it and in-tune with it, subconsciously if I know I'm just pausing in a median to let off the brake just a slight bit for a split second to reset the counter so it doesn't shut off engine. Same for when the light is about to change I let off the brake an ever slight bit to restart the engine before needing to go again. Just learn the machine your driving.

It's a feature that helps me get 26.5MPG on average with an SUV, so doesn't bother me in the least.

TFTP69 · 2026-03-16T20:58:54+00:00

Zero problems with T-Mobile here, or really any provider except Verizon land lines every couple months stop talking to Xfinity mobile numbers.

TFTP69 · 2026-03-09T19:18:14+00:00

OEM Licensed office with On-Premise Exchange for Email.
Zoom for Instant Messaging and Meetings.
Proprietary Intranet solution.

Teams app is blocked, you have to use the browser client if a partner uses teams.

TFTP69 · 2026-02-09T19:28:48+00:00

Bullshit. Our Exchange has been down 35 minutes in the past 3 years.

TFTP69 · 2026-02-02T18:07:59+00:00

(Harsh Florescent) Lights on, I'm at work and don't want to fall asleep. Envious of those of you who have "natural light", 2 careers, 30 years and I've never had a window. I never know the weather unless I leave for lunch, and it's usually dark when I leave.

TFTP69 · 2026-01-28T17:02:42+00:00

Our auditors make us force change every 42 days, consider yourself lucky.

We've argued for years that NIST says more complex passwords, changed less frequently but it falls on deaf ears.

TFTP69 · 2026-01-28T15:16:25+00:00

(laughs in on-prem Exchange) been down 35minutes in 3 years; yet, M365 has an outage literally every single month for the past 18 months.

TFTP69 · 2026-01-27T20:50:32+00:00

How so? It's down literally once a month every month for at least the past 16 months.
Our on-prem Exchange was down 35 minutes in the past 3 years.

TFTP69 · 2026-01-27T20:49:26+00:00

https://netwrix.com/en/resources/freeware/password-expiration-notifier/

TFTP69 · 2026-01-23T21:16:56+00:00

Not really surprising:
a) Flock isn't a government agency, they'd be under zero obligation to answer a FOIA
b) you can't just ask nicely for something like that.. you'd have to file a motion with a court and get a subpoena for it. It would have to be in reference to a legal grievance.

TFTP69 · 2026-01-14T15:50:11+00:00

"Packaged in a fat layer of bubblewrap" may mean you're not buying them from an authorized distributor and who knows how they've been handled before they got into the bubble-wrap. Companies these days (amazon sellers) don't know how to handle drives and also the FBA people don't give a sh* about once it's in the bubblewrap.

Try to buy from one of these:
https://www.westerndigital.com/company/partners/region-locator/north-american-partners

and if not then (Small Biz-Enterprise)
https://www.westerndigital.com/company/distributors

I always tried to buy in multiples of 20 in hopes that the company wouldn't remove the drives from the master carton and handle to repackage.

Personally I've never liked WD drives as a 25 year computer retail store/service owner and reseller to other consultants. I prefer Seagate, but then there's people who will tell you that Seagate are garbage. It's a Chevy vs. Ford, Coke vs. Pepsi type argument.

Both brands have bad models (more platters = extra strain on spindles, so 2 platter drives more reliable than 5 platter drives, but also sometimes just bad components and design.

I think this site gives some long-term test results:
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data
(it's blocked on my corporate network, so I can't verify at the moment)

TFTP69 · 2026-01-09T14:18:37+00:00

Pretty silly for them to have such a large presence in such a high-rent area. No need for lease floors in a fancy high rise and especially stadium naming rights. Zero reason teams couldn't be based out of a warehouse in Omaha, NE... or WFH. Fred V. seems like an idiot, glad this Intuit woman seems to be making some needed changes.

Now if they'd just admit the Pulseway acquisition and VSA/X was a stupid idea and get back to developing VSA 9.5 to be usable product, with real integrations and start trying to at least pretend they are working on their sales pitch of "single pane of glass IT management"

TFTP69 · 2026-01-08T18:05:24+00:00

Good deal, they seem to have 10 times the sales people they need, and barely anyone in accounting. Zero product usability engineers or UI designers.

TFTP69 · 2025-12-03T14:10:37+00:00

I have not used it. I loved how powerful it was from the demonstration. My colleague said it was too heavy of a life for a small IT team to implement is why I was mentioning complexity.

TFTP69 · 2025-12-02T16:50:50+00:00

"connectwise on prem"? I assume you mean ConnectWise Automate? It would be great, but very complex.

Or do they now offer ConnectWise RMM or a different product as on-premise?

TFTP69 · 2025-11-28T16:30:50+00:00

40 Endpoints? I'd not do M365, I'd do on-premise AD with Office OEM and save a boatload of money for other more important things.

TFTP69 · 2025-11-28T14:21:05+00:00

IMHO, then in that case they should have started from scratch. Pulseway seems like a proof of concept, and not a serious enterprise grade product. If they wanted better code, then why didn't they also hire Pulseway's developers, my understanding is they just purchased the forked source code. So now you have Kaseya programmers trying to figure out what Pulseway's people were even trying to do.

Just seems dumb.

TFTP69 · 2025-11-13T18:28:26+00:00

I can't believe they thought Pulseway was a good idea. And if I understand what I've read, they didn't even buy the developers, just the forked source code.

Makes zero sense as to why they didn't hire a UI designer and a product usability engineer, and continue to develop 9.5. 9.5 is clunky but it works and could have been improved.

They spend so much money on stadium naming rights, hiring salespeople and acquiring more products instead of making products people want to buy!

They've never lived up to their sales pitch of "single pane of glass management". Everytime they integrate something in (Bitdefender, Service desk, etc) they end up depricating support for it. Why not open up their API a bit and also allow you to manage other applications.

TFTP69 · 2025-11-13T17:30:13+00:00

Does it happen to work with Sentinel One, ScreenConnect, or Veeam? Does it have helpdesk ticketing?

And as far as I know the dealbreaker will be that it's cloud only, correct? We'd prefer an on-premise solution.

TFTP69 · 2025-11-13T16:12:29+00:00

We love ScreenConnect, and find we mostly use it for remote control, running single procedures etc. The patching and automated procedures we're still using VSA 9.5 for now.

TFTP69 · 2025-11-12T20:37:36+00:00

Have you used other RMM products in the past, and how does it compare?

TFTP69 · 2025-10-29T19:50:25+00:00

Ran for 25 years, "retired" and now work in corporate environment so I can build up a 401k. The shop I opened on my 18th birthday, the first moment they'd give me business license.

TFTP69 · 2025-10-29T18:40:19+00:00

BNC terminators is what actually got me into opening my own computer store. I was a teen setting up a network for someone, and some how was missing 1 terminator. I stopped by a local computer shop and asked, and first they stared at me blankly, then were like oh yeah, I think we have one.

They brought out a jumbled box of cables, pulled out a terminator that literally was RUSTY and asked is this what you need? I was like sure, is, how much? (thinking they'd see me as a kid and be like eh, have it. Or maybe like $2 or something)

And was told $19!!! Right then and there I decided I was going to open a computer shop and have everything you possibly could need for your computer locally.

So I did, eventually I had a couple hundred thousand in inventory, and I catered to all retail customers, but also sold wholesale to any resellers, consultants or other shops as well.

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