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My choices:
Daily driver: 15″ ThinkPad P-series with appropriate dock, 27″ 2k monitor, and mouse. Unplug the two dock cables and off you go!Think Station Tower with dual 24″ monitor, keyboard and mouse for the virtual servers and occasional gaming. Plenty of storage, memory and CPU power for the VMs and a chonky GPU for CAD and gaming, both occasional.
Each purchased with a purpose in mind: Portable-ish laptop for on-the-go power computing, and a tower for fixed raw power. The Thunderbolt 3 dock makes the line blurry!
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I use DHCP reservations in my router. DHCP hands out the IP I selected to the MAC address that asks for it for the devices where it matters. The others are assigned from the DHCP pool.
So, I don’t have to configure and maintain static IPs but I still have fixed addresses for servers, scanners and printers!
The best of both worlds!
Martin
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Ultimately, every website must stop relying on username/password combinations, which are inherently weak, and move to multifactor authentication (MFA) using secure tokens.
Right, if the goal is to protect the account from other people. But in this scenario, the person abusing the account has the MFA credentials. I imagine that it isn’t that hard to distribute the codes to multiple machines when you have access to the token as would happen in a post farm…
The only solution would be to limit to 3 logins at once (computer, tablet, phone) when MFA is active. And don’t make it too annoying or people will reduce their use! (But not bots!)
My 0.02$
Martin
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Using a non-changeable “password”? Bad idea. Especially DNA, it’s spread everywhere! Every hair or dead skin cell you lose can compromise your access!
Martin
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I just wanted to add that there is a version called Lenovo Commercial Vantage for Lenovo business computers without the “fluff”. It is also manageable from Group Policy. Use it if your machine is supported!
Martin
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Hi!
Lenovo Vantage is purposely delayed while the update team monitors the early deployment of updates. Updates are first published on the support website, then to Vantage database about two weeks later if everything looks fine. The idea is to only install good updates automatically.
Martin
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Just a reminder : our increasing use of wireless “phones” causes a huge pressure in reallocating radio spectrum for mobile wireless device use. Every new bit open to reallocation is fought over in auction, and the scarcity causes reallocated bands to be used next to essential radio bands or services essential today like airplane radio-altimeters.
The only sustainable solution to our growing number of mobile devices is to re-use the spectrum already allocated in faster and more efficient ways, meaning using less spectrum for the same data volume. This means de-commissioning less efficient systems and replacing them with better ones. So, rely on 4th generation GSM (4G) instead of the 3rd generation.
With the 5th generation, millimetre wave links will help manage high density use (short-range very fast) by making coverage very local. This will allow re-use of frequencies in more zones within an area, reducing spectrum pressure, with generally faster links (all at the expense of higher energy use, unfortunately).
Today, the best of both worlds is having a device using 4G until the performance of 5G is desired, and switching on-the-fly.
Martin, hamradio operator since 1992
Wireless isn’t magic, and far from simple! I prefer wired links whenever practical!
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