I've never been in a position before where a single laptop hard drive stood between me and not being able to work. And yet, as Red Hat is pulled into IBM, we're required to work on corporate-issued Crowdstrike-laden laptops. If the laptop dies, we send it

I've never been in a position before where a single laptop hard drive stood between me and not being able to work. And yet, as Red Hat is pulled into IBM, we're required to work on corporate-issued Crowdstrike-laden laptops. If the laptop dies, we send it out to IT, but have no way to work until a replacement arrives. For the decade (less two years in the middle) I've been at Red Hat, I've never had a simple hardware failure threaten my ability to do my job and serve our customers. It's making me queasy, thinking about it. I'd install a Corporate Standard Build system on workstation hardware if I could, out of pocket, just to have RAID and replaceable hardware, but RAID isn't supported and I'm pretty sure policy would say "no". I wish things were like they were before the IBM acquisition. We were the Open Organization. Not flawless, but deeply good in a way people outside of Red Hat couldn't always see. Red Hat empowered us to make the world a better place. That's lost, now. #getfedihired