I wish it was that easy as she stated. You cant just tell Comm to get you a new laptop. They will laugh in your face, unless you are like her a high ranking officer. Typically Comm will hold their budget close to the chest and buying only big project items until the fiscal year is up and then they buy a bunch of crap laptops to complete their budget or a bunch of gamer chairs, or fancy desks, some of which just sit in storage and waste away. As a typical enlisted airman though you will never get a brand new laptop ordered, even for a mission critical device, unless a high ranking officer is involved.
You both are correct. Its a combination of shit hardware, shit software, and poor timing on daily scans that should be run after hours instead of on login. I use AF computers on a daily basis and can attest to bringin in my own laptop and using alternatives to login on my personal.
Currently a Air National Guardsmen. I've only had it take that long a handful of times. Usually when it does it is running Microsofts Endpoint Manager and trying to push updates, Scan with McAfee and Tanium, and loading a bunch of scripts in the background that are checking for compliance, setting a default AF or local Comm Squadon background, posting messages relating to the current security levels, etc. Its alot to all run as soon as booted and some things could and should be delegated for off hours but its not how its currently set. Typically the first 30 minutes of my morning is waiting for Outlook, Edge/Chrome, and Teams to open before even trying to open any tools. Also from working in Comm I've seen how they purchase hardware and its pretty frustrating. They will purchase 100 laptops at the end of the year to fill their budget for hte year, but its the lowest priced laptop, which is still almost double or triple what you can purchase it for as a civilian, then often times it will sit in storage and no one will touch it. This often happens due to the leadership not having any actual IT knowledge and they make the purchasing calls so performance isnt at the forefront of their mind.
Great, our military uses Teams; now I know we're doomed. Kidding, just kidding!
Seriously now...Hearing the pain here frustrates me because i am actually in favor of paying my taxes because i know when handled properly then roads, bridges, infrastructure, other things, and yes, the right tools for our military are done then everyone benefits...but when things are not managed right, it chafes me so much because the pain ripples all the way through from civil servants unable to do their job, to military folks not having tools to help defend us, to civilians being put at risk while going over unsafe bridges, to commerce not being efficient because roads suck, etc.
Well I won't be complaining about my company laptop anymore lol.
Just from reading your comment, sounds like the biggest problem is the vendor overlap here. MS Endpoint Manager, MacAfee and Tanium all seem to be doing the same thing.
This seems like scope creep on an epic scale. It's almost like someone came to USAF IT every 3 years and said "we signed a contract with X vendor, add it to the laptops".
Maybe its a stretch but I was doing research into North Korean hacks from APT38 and noticed that TSMC had been hit by WannaCry in mid/late 2018 shutting down some of their chip manufacturing facilities. Would it be possible to believe this snowballed into what we have today with a series of bad situations?
I keep seeing folks acting like Marriott is afraid to go against China because they would crush them, but I see it just as capitalism at work. When you have to make the most profit all of the time or SHAREHOLDERS will shut you down then you have to bow to any large market that puts up a complaint.
Wouldnt trust them. I'd follow the hack recently put out that gave you access without needing an account. Only thing you lose is access to their social media related functions if I remember correctly
I dont think anyone will sympathize with murderers or criminals, but that half of the criminals are in for non violent crimes such as drug offenses. Luckily the tides on marijuana are changing. Imagine though if half of our prison population wasnt there and instead were in some time of rehabilitation center to get past the drug use and back to be a productive part of society.
How many of those violent crime convictions are police officers stating "Stop resisting!" while putting someone in handcuffs and they trip and fall and get a bloody lip and throw assault at the perp? Sadly these are all "what ifs" and not looking at the actual data in front of us.
