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by Larrikin 1060 days ago
Signing into your personal accounts on a work machine is a terrible idea, as it opens up your personal accounts to search if there is a lawsuit (against you or against the company). That's assuming it's not already strictly forbidden by the company rules to prevent you from sending yourself confidential data.

Also outside of programmers, IT, and designers, you rarely get a choice in the company issued laptop. It never makes sense for a company to issue more expensive Apple computers instead of ThinkPads or Dell computers.
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lostlogin 1060 days ago
> Signing into your personal accounts on a work machine is a terrible idea, as it opens up your personal accounts to search if there is a lawsuit

The machine is mine and I do work on it. Thanks for the concern but I’m not worried about getting sued. I’m sure it’s happened here previously, but it’s not like the US.

> Also outside of programmers, IT, and designers, you rarely get a choice in the company issued laptop. It never makes sense for a company to issue more expensive Apple computers instead of ThinkPads or Dell computers.

I’m not one of those professionals and I can get my job done quicker on a Mac. My employer doesn’t dictate how I get things done and paid for the machine I want. I think this is a good thing.

Any job that requires a crappy trackpad isn't a job worth having.

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viraptor 1059 days ago
> The machine is mine and I do work on it.

> My employer doesn’t dictate how I get things done and paid for the machine I want.

That is very much not your machine. If your employer ever gets sued, or runs into some investigation, or some internal dispute escalates enough, all the data on it is now likely available for them for review.

Given large enough company and enough people, you'll get that "preserve documents for discovery" email one day. It happens outside of the US too.

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vxNsr 1060 days ago
Anyone working on a trackpad all day probably isn’t doing serious work ;) see we can all make unkind generalizations.
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lostlogin 1060 days ago
Touché.

Just seeing those laptops is frustrating. What is the point of the trackpad if you have to use a mouse?

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vxNsr 1059 days ago
When you need to travel between workstations I work docked all day, once in a while I need to be mobile, but it’s much easier to work on one machine vs two.
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