Comment by TacticalCoder

I totally agree with your post.

> ... what should happen to the Context.ai employee that thought it was a good idea to play games in their work machine ...

And if we think just a tiny, tiny, bit about this the entire concept of a laptop that's both used at work and outside work for non-work related things is already quite a stretch.

I could name one company that is top 10 in market cap in the world where engineers had, on their desk (or below it), a work computer that was not connected to the Internet (but fully connected to an internal network) and a second computer, on another network, that was connected to the Internet. They may still have that setup today: don't know.

FWIW my main "workstation" (it doesn't have ECC memory and, weirdly enough, the actual workstation here is... a Proxmox server) doesn't even have sound.

No sound.

Ask yourself this: can you work without your main work computer even have the ability to emit any sound? For most people it's yes.

And I'm no luddite: countless NUCs, Pi's (got a tower of stacked Raspberry Pi's), laptops, etc.

But I don't need to watch Youtube vids on my main work computer. And I certainly don't need to play games on it.

Conf call? There are laptops for that.

Youtube vids? Just watched several from Clojure/Conj 2025 these last days. From one of the laptops.

The very idea that you game on the laptop that you bring to the coffee shop that you bring at work is what brought down Vercel. And shall take down many others.