I had some trouble with the VPN client on my work laptop this week, and (long story short), it turns out that I can’t RDP into my work laptop from my home PC and connect to VPN anymore. That’s the way I’ve been doing WFH since 2020 (and probably earlier): I boot up both my home desktop PC and my laptop, then remote into the laptop from the PC, so I can use my full-size keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
But that doesn’t work anymore, and apparently is also a violation of our AUP. (Oops.) Luckily, I have a 2-port KVM here, which I bought when I got my new Windows 11 PC a few months ago. I’ve been using it recently to switch back and forth between the Win 11 PC and the old Win 10 PC, which is now an Ubuntu PC.
So, for now, I’ve got the Win 11 PC on port 1 and my work laptop on port 2. That’s only slightly less convenient than my old method of connecting, but now I need to think about upgrading to a 4-port KVM, so I can have all three machines hooked up at once.
I can’t say I’m thrilled about that idea, since I only just recently bought the 2-port KVM. And I’m not thrilled about all the extra cords I’ll have dangling all over the place. Maybe I should go back to thinking about discarding the old Win 10 (now Ubuntu) PC. I don’t really have a good use case for it; it was just something to do with the old box, for fun. Maybe I should be looking to simplify things, instead of making them even more complicated.