Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
This is a sub that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
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So I will tell mine because I look back and I am just FLOORED.
A few years ago I worked for a small MSP.
Basically brought on board to give advice on how to lock down their environment, standardize patching, help out with hardware refreshes, best practices implementations and the gamut.
One thing I was really pushing for right away was for more robust endpoint management tools and also to move away from giving end users Local Admin privileges left and right.
To be honest I kind of inherited a dumpster fire with this MSP.
The CEO in question was adamant about not having his device enrolled in our endpoint management software (Because he "knew" what he was doing), thankfully it at least had our companies Antivirus installed. One thing I always re-iterated to new hires is that company devices are specifically that, not for your spouse, or kids, or friends to take over and use let alone install software.
Fast forward a few months, the company ignores a lot of my suggestions and feedback and just keeps steaming full ahead using outdated tools and software to manage their endpoints. The company gets ransomware hacked. It's bad, really bad, like "Sorry Wife and kids I can't do this national holiday with you bad and need to stay home while you leave on vacation " bad, our server and systems team and security team and I are pulling nearly 18 hour days for weeks, checking the server backups for reinfection, slowly bringing everything back online. It was the most stressful and miserable experience in my life as an IT Professional.
Finally, we are back up a few weeks later, I am finally relaxing at home and having a beer, browsing my IT and Technology blogs when my email starts blowing up with AV alerts, I promptly login to our AV solution portal and my AV Console lights up like a Christmas tree. In a panic I realize that the endpoint name in my AV Alert emails is that of no other than the CEO's laptop. The alerts are going off so fast that I cannot even get through them all.
Thinking that the device was lost and or stolen and that someone was actively logged in and downloading and installing software I decided to remote in and take a look.
Roblox.
This person is running Roblox in full screen mode on the CEO's laptop.
GODDAMN ROBLOX.
I wanted to scream.
But not just any version of Roblox, but the one that your 10 year old kid would download by clicking on the very first search result or the link that his friends sent him. This thing was just jam packed with malware, a hilarious amount of Malware, thankfully the AV solution just kept terminating the processes and or isolating and or moving the files to quarantine, with the kid oblivious to it all gaming away on a very expensive high end company laptop that just keeps downloading more and more malware.
This is after COMPANY WIDE Infosec training took place, where I created NEW training specifically due to this incident for every single employee in the company, where end users literally Signed agreements about proper usage of company devices, where I literally talked to every single person about security best practices. Including the CEO.
I ended up calling our Information Security leader since he technically reported to the CEO directly and told him what was going on, after some muffled swearing and a long pause in silence on both ends of the call and a long sip of my beer, we decided to have them ship the device back immediately to be re-imaged and wiped, only after being promised that they would make the call to the CEO to politely tell them to tell their little shit kids to stop installing Malware embedded version of Roblox on company laptops.
Anyhow, I digress. Happy Friday everyone!
We stand in solidarity with numerous people who need access to the API including bot developers, people with accessibility needs (r/blind) and 3rd party app users (Apollo, Sync, etc.)
We hear a lot of people saying that these expensive machines are just posh and not utilized, but I wanted to make everyone know that omg they deliver when needed and pushed to the absolute max. Mine is a 16” M3 Max 16 core CPU / 40 core GPU 64GB model.
I work as a research in mathematics and AI. We had a presentation yesterday to our funder, who visited for 2 days. It went quite well. The funder asked for something more, and my supervisor told them we would need at least a month for that.
I went home, coded the hell out of it, started running it. Saw immediately 100% all core CPU usage and 80-100% GPU usage fluctuating. Went to bed thinking that it will probably crash or still be running in the morning (no time to upload to the cluster since it takes a few hours to allocate time or go to the office to use the dual 4090 set up since it was midnight). Woke up early in the morning. Saw it was still running, and figured oh well, I tried. The Mac’s fans were screaming all night, thank god I sleep in an other room. Went to shower, checked again. It was done. Quickly ran some tests. It had worked!!!!
Went to work early. Gave it to my boss. Told them we got the new results. They were impressed, the funder was also impressed (something unusual because they are a very bitchy person from a very bitchy organization). My boss told that after my contract ends in a few months I am getting my own team!
I 100% know that if I hadn’t spent $6000 of my money a month ago for this machine this wouldn’t have happened. I know it’s not the best computer out there. I know a desktop could probably do it as well (though my office’s 7950X is quite slower in CPU tasks as I’ve said in other posts). But I move around can’t have a desktop. If I had any other laptop, it wouldn’t have been possible.
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
/r/hardware is a place for quality computer hardware news, reviews, and intelligent discussion.
/r/hardware is a place for quality computer hardware news, reviews, and intelligent discussion.
