I'd imagine it's extremely likely in Jazzy's case that there would be restrictions preventing working on a personal machine or doing personal stuff on a work machine

Unless I’m missing something.

I'd imagine it's extremely likely in Jazzy's case that there would be restrictions preventing working on a personal machine or doing personal stuff on a work machine

I assumed they were both work laptops as you said they were both for work. Sorry.

It’s baffling that work won’t allow you to install software you need in order to do your job.

I think she's hiding something. Far too convoluted #FakeAdviceThread

Ah, I see the confusion, sorry.

Yeah, baffling is a good word. I guess they don't want to risk any sort of virus getting on there. It's really restricted, even the websites that are blocked at work are still blocked. At least I will be able to access any information I need though, I doubt I will use it for much else as I prefer my own to be honest.

You are correct though in that laptop a will become redundant, as I only really use it as a second screen either for zoom or research articles, I can use zoom on laptop b with a bigger screen as well as displaying articles on it too. Of course, I could still use my laptop scree if needed. I don't use the work laptop one though as it's just too small.

So yes a big screen with 2 inputs would work

I am sure i said that..

If you had a screen big enough for all your documents, do you still need multiple machines? You could have zoom on the left side, typing doc on the middle and another doc on the right, for example. Or even split it into 6 as long as it’s large enough.

I'm maybe having trouble getting my head around Jazzy's use case, but I don't see why you'd ever need more than one laptop if you have the screen real estate to view everything you need at the same time?

And if that's the case, just get a bigger monitor

I can't plug two laptops into it

Isn't Jazzy looking for one that can display from two laptops side by side, rather than one with two switchable inputs?

Got my psychic link turned on today

I'm going to assume this is clinical data and yes some of the restrictions are very tight, is my understanding. The big science facility in the city has to provide some select researchers with two separate machines for just this reason (the IT head doesn't like it but grudgingly accepts it's a simple workaround)

Somewhat relatedly, I recently learned that Australian clinical data must be kept on Australian servers, so certain 'cloud' providers cannot be used because they do not allow you to specify geo-location. This was new to me and was simultaneously quite interesting in principle and yet pretty boring in detail. I'd simply never really thought about it.

I'm going to assume this is clinical data and yes some of the restrictions are very tight, is my understanding. The big science facility in the city has to provide some select researchers with two separate machines for just this reason (the IT head doesn't like it but grudgingly accepts it's a simple workaround)

Somewhat relatedly, I recently learned that Australian clinical data must be kept on Australian servers, so certain 'cloud' providers cannot be used because they do not allow you to specify geo-location. This was new to me and was simultaneously quite interesting in principle and yet pretty boring in detail. I'd simply never really thought about it.

The last bit reminds me of a favourite story involving a friend of mine, G. Another friend, C, worked in insurance, and had visited a hinge factory to allow them to quote to insure them. All very standard, until they found some of those hinges were used in space. Suddenly the liability was very different.

I mentioned this to G, and said, "Imagine having to know about that?"

His response, which became a bit of a work-motto for me, to counter my in-built 'oh gosh!' reaction, was "imagine having to care?"

I like that, and I have a feeling those two statements will bounce around in my head during some more of our upcoming 'working strategy group' meetings

I've also never thought about a factory devoted solely to hinges until now. This is just what I need when I'm procrastinating instead of getting on with my more important tasks.