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burkaman04/03/20252 repliesview on HN

People love them because they want to use their PC in more than one place.


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Cthulhu_04/03/2025

And employers love them because if people take them home overnight they only need security / insurance for peripherals. The only fixed PCs I still see in offices are low cost / bulk Dell machines only good for office work or thin clients, and even those go back ~15 years now, at a bank that already had relatively tight security.

I wish I could have a job where I work on a desktop machine and could just leave things at the office when I leave for the day. Alas.

bambax04/03/2025

What are those places? Do most people have multiple residences? Or do they think they might need it, and in practice never do?

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