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> people who do not know how to adjust their lock times

I've seen developers at FAANG companies using the background video trick - because corporate managed devices came with an unmodifiable lock/sleep time.

And if school-issued laptops were even more locked down, with even more boneheaded defaults - that would hardly surprise me.

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I was working at Microsoft when Windows Phones were a thing. They gave everyone on the team a very cheap phone with the expectation that we were to dogfood the latest phone OS on it. They tracked our usage hours to make sure we were using them.

One of my teammates just put on (IIRC) a 72 hour long black screen video and reset the video back to the beginning when he left in the evenings.

It needed to be 72 hours long because he didn't want to come in on the weekends to reset it.

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