Ask HN: Transitioning to Restrictive Environments

I recently got a new job in this pandemic. I am so grateful that i got a new job with a good salary. I am a devops engineer where in the past i had full access to all AWS environments and had my own laptop where I could install vagrant , virtualbox docker. However, this new company is a fintech company and as such the security is very high on the laptop. Basicaly my laptop is a dumb terminal to connect to a Windows remote desktop where I can't even install stuff. so as such it is hard to make much progress. Specially administering linux and kubernetes clusters. using Windows putty :( . Have any of you faced a similar transition and how were you able to handle this change.