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Microsoft causes learned helplessness
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Even in tech jobs you can be doing things that don't require you to understand the nitty-gritties of the operating systems.
Just because I have enough admin rights to fix basic issues on other people's computers doesn't mean I'm allowed to just install what-the-fuck-ever on my own computer. Even as someone in IT, our workstations are locked down, even if it's our team that is the one locking them down.