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Ask HN: How do you balance having a personal and a work computer?

3 pointsby torvaldalmost 6 years ago
If you use your work computer as your personal computer as-well, which measures do you take into account to have a healthy separations of the two environments, if any?<p>And if you use two machines, one for work and one for personal use, which components (applications, config files, browser accounts, password managers etc) do you share between the two?<p>For security reasons, I guess most companies would ask you to not use your work machine for personal stuff. I&#x27;m afraid the reality is far less idealistic. Does your company have a policy on this at all? I wonder what the norm is.

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bradknowlesalmost 6 years ago
I have both. I replicated some of my basic personal configuration preferences manually. Others, I’ve brought in from a git repo. I do use my personal accounts to access certain websites from both machines, but I’m careful as to what information gets accessed or shared where.<p>But I don’t have my personal e-mail on my work machine. I don’t do personal work on my work machine.<p>The closest I come is sometimes I will work on things in a shared git repo, and switch back and forth from doing that on my work machine versus my personal machine.<p>But I’m super careful about accidentally exfiltrating any information from my work machine that might be considered sensitive.<p>And I’m pretty careful about importing anything from my personal machine to my work machine.