u/Tornious

For context, I am an intern on coop for the summer. I have worked for my university's IT support desk for 2 years now, and have a very good understanding of basic cybersecurity principles like device management, identities vs. accounts, don't click phishing links type things. During my interview, I was told I would be mainly working on Slackbots and AI integration to make our company procedures more efficient, as well as establishing a basic IT baseline (MDM enrollment, identity management, staff cybersecurity trainings) since they have no established IT team. My second interview was pretty much the same with a very brief mention of CMMC at the very end.
Flash forward to starting my job, and I find out they want me to get us up to level 2 compliance and I'm starting from ground zero. There are shared licenses, shared accounts, computers with uptimes of 3+ months, everyone's work computer has the exact same password (which was also the same as our wifi password), and 3 actively used machines were still on Windows 10.

As of yesterday I believe I have finally gotten us up to Level 1 compliance. I came in over the weekend to completely reconfigure our wifi network, I've gotten MDM completely rolled out, taught these guys what MFA, etc. I have a gigantic spreadsheet for all the controls I need to hit, with links to screenshots and policy documents I've written, and I'm really starting to feel burnt out and overwhelmed. I currently have 35/110 practices 'implemented' but I just have no motivation to keep chugging through it. My direct manager is not an IT person, he's an engineer and has his own work to do, and our CEO has no understanding of how computers work (we have a Windows 7 machine housing one of our Solidworks network licenses and when I said Windows 7 was a security risk, he asked if we could just turn off the wifi on the machine so it wouldn't get hacked into), so I don't really have anyone I could ask questions for help. I've tried setting benchmarks for myself of "try to get all the AU controls done this week," but it's getting really hard to stay motivated when I'm completely by myself here.

This might be more of a vent post, but if anyone has any advice of how they worked through level 2 and stayed motivated, I would really appreciate it.

Hello party people! First time pet parent here. I adopted my cat a few weeks ago and she is an absolute cutie patootie. I love her so much, but the last 2 days she has been an absolute menace.

I woke up yesterday to the sound of her chewing on a lotion bottle. I tucked it away in a drawer and went back to laying in bed, so she then went to my pencil cup and started gnawing on a pen. This continued pretty much all day with different items around my room. Her new favorite this is trying to stick her paws in my PC fans.

I'm always watching her when I'm home, so I'm not overly concerned with it, but im not exactly sure how to teach her not to.

I've tried taking things away, to which she finds new things to mess with, I've tried staring her down to assert my dominance (which she did not give a f*ck and continued to be a menace). I tried picking her up and holding her while telling her no, but she'd just wiggle out of my arms and go back to whatever she was messing with without a care in the world.

I understand she's just a baby and does not speak English. She doesn't know what no means. I don't want to put her in an enclosed space like her carrier, because I don't want her to feel trapped or scared, but im not sure how else to get her to understand she can't eat my earrings or chew on pens. I don't think it's Pica at this point, I think she's just using her mouth to explore, and she's still a baby (9 months). Any advice would be super helpful, thanks!

EDIT: I see a lot of people recommending either adopting a sibling for her, or playing with her more. She does not do well with other cats, and the shelter I adopted her from specifically told me to not get another cat. I play with her for at least an hour every day, usually spread throughout. She has a tower with a scratching post and a separate scratching post and uses both. She has toys everywhere, she likes playing by herself with her pom-poms and springs, or with me with her laser or wand toy, and I usually play with her until she loses interest and goes to take a nap. There's also I giant window I open for her every morning to look out of. I feel like I've really done a lot with providing her climbing space and access to toys and I don't know what else to do atp

Hello party people! After owning my PC for a few years now, I'm looking into upgrading my GPU. Currently, I have an Nvidia RTX 3060 ti, and while it works fine, I did very well in school this past semester and feel I've earned the treat.

For budget, I'd prefer not to spend more than $500 (which I know with the current market is asking a lot, so if that's not viable I will not be offended), but I'm looking for advice on what could potentially be a good upgrade.

Not sure how much this matters, if at all, but I primarily play open world games. Specifically this whole idea was inspired by playing the Oblivion remaster the other day and averaging about 20fps (and yes I know the game is terribly optimized), but I've also noticed performance snags in The Witcher 3 and modded Baldur's Gate 3 saves.

Anyways, thank you guys in advance! My PC is a pre-built given to me by my uncle, and I am not a hardware person beyond the basics, so any advice is very appreciated.