Working Remotely
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@MattSpeller said in Working Remotely:
Dual/Triple screen laptops are coming soon, maybe hold out a bit
Razer Valerie, already here, just expensive. I'd still go with @JaredBusch, buy a monitor locally and leave/donate it when done.
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@Tim_G said in Working Remotely:
a small table out on the balcony (this could be nice!).
External laptop battery pack is a very sweet accessory
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@travisdh1 said in Working Remotely:
@MattSpeller said in Working Remotely:
Dual/Triple screen laptops are coming soon, maybe hold out a bit
Razer Valerie, already here, just expensive. I'd still go with @JaredBusch, buy a monitor locally and leave/donate it when done.
You've got to be kidding me!
I want one yesterday!
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@Tim_G said in Working Remotely:
@gjacobse said in Working Remotely:
Why two laptops?
One for work, one for personal use.
I do this but only out of extreme use cases. Try to cut back to one if possible.
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@JaredBusch said in Working Remotely:
@gjacobse said in Working Remotely:
Going mobile I would ditch the IP phone and use a Softphone on our laptop and full bluetooth headset.
Not for 3 months, I wouldn't.
Even for six months I do this. Anything to reduce weight. I'm not on the phone a lot though. And when I am it is randomly corporate PBX, Skype, Hangouts, etc.
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@Tim_G said
It's company owned, and I don't care to keep anything personal on it, even if it's a dual boot. Strictly work. It just keeps all cards and what-ifs completely off the table. It's best that way.
You are doing it wrong.
Emails live in a browser
Files live in a browser
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@Breffni-Potter said in Working Remotely:
@Tim_G said
It's company owned, and I don't care to keep anything personal on it, even if it's a dual boot. Strictly work. It just keeps all cards and what-ifs completely off the table. It's best that way.
You are doing it wrong.
Emails live in a browser
Files live in a browser
Delete what you don't use.If the company can remote wipe it, you don't want anything personal on it. If you have company stuff on it, you don't want to let the kids touch it...
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@Mike-Davis said
If the company can remote wipe it, you don't want anything personal on it.
Explain to me how anything would be on it...when the data lives on a server which you are viewing through a web browser?
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Cached credentials? Temporary files? Browsing history? If you can't wipe it before giving it back to your company, are you confident that it is always clean of all your personal data? I dunno.
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Well my company laptop isn't powerful or featureful enough for personal use. So that means I'd have to waste space on already low capacity m.2 or higher capacity SSD personal storage. Then id have to use it daily in a work setting and its too big for that. Its 15.6 and for work I like smaller (not including this upcoming remote work). There's too many reasons and you all are thinking in too simple terms when there's a lot more variables that come to play. Its a nice laptop I want to last and don't want to beat up for work purposes.
Sure I could use my personal laptop while remote, but again I don't want to dual boot and all that, image it etc. Its so much simpler to have both when I could stuff my work one inside my my clothing suitcase in between clothing or blanket real good.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Working Remotely:
Cached credentials? Temporary files? Browsing history? If you can't wipe it before giving it back to your company, are you confident that it is always clean of all your personal data? I dunno.
You could, in theory you could run a VM maybe and only use that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Working Remotely:
@Carnival-Boy said in Working Remotely:
Cached credentials? Temporary files? Browsing history? If you can't wipe it before giving it back to your company, are you confident that it is always clean of all your personal data? I dunno.
You could, in theory you could run a VM maybe and only use that.
This could work temporarily while I'm abroad working remotely. I could always store the VM on my internal SSD, and boot it up when I want to work. Delete it when I'm finished. Not sure if I want to turn my personal laptop into a hypervisor, though. That's the question. And then, I don't know if I can use my laptop monitor plus the USB monitor on a VM. Can you spread a VM across two monitors? I never had a need for it or a need to try it.
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@Tim_G said in Working Remotely:
@scottalanmiller said in Working Remotely:
@Carnival-Boy said in Working Remotely:
Cached credentials? Temporary files? Browsing history? If you can't wipe it before giving it back to your company, are you confident that it is always clean of all your personal data? I dunno.
You could, in theory you could run a VM maybe and only use that.
This could work temporarily while I'm abroad working remotely. I could always store the VM on my internal SSD, and boot it up when I want to work. Delete it when I'm finished. Not sure if I want to turn my personal laptop into a hypervisor, though. That's the question. And then, I don't know if I can use my laptop monitor plus the USB monitor on a VM. Can you spread a VM across two monitors? I never had a need for it or a need to try it.
I only have one with me. It'll be quite some time before I can check.
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@Tim_G said in Working Remotely:
@scottalanmiller said in Working Remotely:
@Carnival-Boy said in Working Remotely:
Cached credentials? Temporary files? Browsing history? If you can't wipe it before giving it back to your company, are you confident that it is always clean of all your personal data? I dunno.
You could, in theory you could run a VM maybe and only use that.
This could work temporarily while I'm abroad working remotely. I could always store the VM on my internal SSD, and boot it up when I want to work. Delete it when I'm finished. Not sure if I want to turn my personal laptop into a hypervisor, though. That's the question. And then, I don't know if I can use my laptop monitor plus the USB monitor on a VM. Can you spread a VM across two monitors? I never had a need for it or a need to try it.
VirtualBox does allow this. I don't know about VMware Workstation.
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I got my USB monitor today in preparation of the remote work, and got my wired/wireless Bluetooth mouse a couple days ago:
(mouse stock photo, didn't take my own) Razer Orochi
(my pic)
Running an hour long 1080p video test on it to make sure it'll do it's job...
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