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I do personal things on company hardware, just nothing actually personal. No sign-ins, but I'll watch a movie on work laptop happily.

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How do you watch the movie, though. If you do it legally, you need to use an account, that's personal, no?

Unless you watch free movies on YT or torrent stuff, of course

It blows my mind away that this remark is entirely oblivious to the consideration of physical media.

Physical media is a relic. Most laptops don't come with a drive and most company policies will try to block USB drives of any kind.

> ...most company policies will try to block USB drives of any kind.

Grand assertion. Where's your supporting cite? To be clear before goalposts are moved, the context is external optical media drives---a peripheral commonly issued along side laptops without one---not USB mass storage devices.

> a peripheral commonly issued along side laptops without one

Wait, _is_ it? In this future year of 2023? I haven’t seen this as common practice for at least a decade.

(The sort of higher-security-stance companies who disable USB drive support will also generally disable support for external optical drives, because why take the risk?)

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