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How about "you can't be without your laptop during your business travel at all"? Who puts a laptop worth several thousands of euros in check-in luggage which g
by scrollaway 10y ago
How about "you can't be without your laptop during your business travel at all"?
Who puts a laptop worth several thousands of euros in check-in luggage which gets lost, stolen and damaged all the time?
- marklyon 10y agoYou don't. You buy a $200 beater laptop and use that for travel. Load only what is necessary to remote back into your network. Don't carry any other data on it. If it gets stolen or searched, no loss. Just buy the cheapest thing you find at an electronics store at the destination. My old org kept a bunch of used thinkpads for this purpose. International travelers were prohibited from taking their work devices, just a loaner and a Remote Desktop client.
- wavefunction 10y agoSounds like a whole lot of work for me for absolutely no reason at all.
- scrollaway 10y agoHey I have this sick idea: How about we instead let passengers carry laptops on planes? Wouldn't that be a hell of a lot simpler? Wait, no, you're right, it's inherently dangerous. In fact, it's so dangerous, that in the past decade during which we've let people do just that, hundreds millions of people have died (Maybe some of that was old age, but we can't be sure it's not laptop-on-plane related). Clearly something has to change.
- marklyon 10y agoI don't get to control what the TSA does. I do get to control how I handle the problems they create.
- MereInterest 10y ago> The wise man adapts himself to the world, while the fool tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the fool.