Do you have a seperate laptop for personal use? Or do you use your work computer as a personal computer as well?

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I have two separate laptops. I like it better this way, but annoyingly, I often forget to switch them. So things don't stay as separate as I would like.

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I mean at least you try

I've always had a separate computer. I don't want my work and personal lives mixing at all. Working only on my work laptop keeps me from checking emails and stressing about projects after hours.

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I work on a PC and was considering getting a mac for personal use. I've had a mac before and loved it. And I'm hoping it helps separate me from work a bit.

I have two, one was provided by my company, and one was personally purchased by me. I end up working on my personal laptop and doing some personal stuff on my work laptop, it's not a perfect system. But it works well enough.

I think we're all probably guilty about doing that to a point even if you have two different computers.

I have two but truthfully don’t use my personal one as often as I probably should. I travel quite a bit so especially on trips, I hate lugging around two laptops. So it bleeds over quite a bit.

That being said, anything related to job hunting or interviewing I always do from my personal laptop

oh absolutely don't want to be doing job search stuff on a work machine.

Separate laptops and separate phones. I just don't want random Mark having backend access to my messages, photos, or be able to trace what I've been typing on my phone or laptop outside work.

I do wish sometimes I did have a seperate phone, but I don't get many work calls on it. Mostly just Teams and email so I guess I at least don't have to lug around two devices.

But I do think it would help separate work and personal.

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