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I recently left my macbook with the TSA after a frantic sprint through security. I was stuck with a windows 7 PC for the week.

Armed with Putty and a browser, I only missed the touchpad of my macbook. I do most of my work in Jupyter and in vim. It's rather liberating to realize you are not tied to one ecosystem. My point is I thought I would never be productive without my mac but that simply wasn't true.

I suppose I am an edge case though as most of my work is performed on my headless linux workstation.

For those wondering, TSA held on to my macbook which I retrieved over the weekend.




I’m honestly pretty amazed they didn’t relieve you of your laptop. Lots of stories of thieves in blue shirts.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/top-20-airports-tsa-theft/stor...


Good on the TSA!


yes, good on the TSA for not stealing the laptop they confiscated/found.


Juypter? Can I ask what do you do for a living? Data-science related?


> I recently left my macbook with the TSA after a frantic sprint through security. I was stuck with a windows 7 PC for the week.

Care to elaborate more on what really happened?


Sounds like he forgot it after taking it out to be x-rayed,


Correct.


Oh I thought that TSA didn't let him continue with his Macbook.




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