I haven't been laid off, but as far as I can tell, my company does zero tracking of anything besides the laptop itself. I'm sure they're require it to be returned, but it's got MDM stuff all over it, so I'm not sure there's any reason to keep it.
Most MDM persists a wipe unless they’re de-enrolled by serial or other unique identifier (e.g. computrace, Windows Autopilot although it’s a bit weird, apple too I think)
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I haven't been laid off, but as far as I can tell, my company does zero tracking of anything besides the laptop itself. I'm sure they're require it to be returned, but it's got MDM stuff all over it, so I'm not sure there's any reason to keep it.
Just format it clean.
Most MDM persists a wipe unless they’re de-enrolled by serial or other unique identifier (e.g. computrace, Windows Autopilot although it’s a bit weird, apple too I think)
Computrace/absolute is a literal rootkit
Well maybe it's time to switch to a OS that does what the user wants.
It does do what the user wants. Your employer owns your work PC and is the ultimate user, not you.
Yeah I'm sure employers are clamoring to switch to an OS that lets their employees do whatever they want with their machines.
You can put whatever OS you want on the machine once it's yours.
Last time I did that, I upgraded my Apple ][ to DOS 3.3.