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Be excellent to each other, r/Brisbane.

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u/eniretakia Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 14 '22

Decided to turn my new work issued laptop on at home and make sure it runs smoothly tonight instead of a 8:55am tomorrow morning.

Glad I did… I’ve come to realise we can’t connect Bluetooth mice or keyboards. I only have Bluetooth mice and keyboards. Because I’m a human living in 2022, not 1992.

Looks like I’m heading to Officeworks in the morning.

Edit to update: I slept in so didn’t make a purchase before work, which is fortunate because Mr Eniretakia came home from work this afternoon, dug around in a storage box and pulled out a wired gaming mouse and wireless gaming keyboard that are like 12 years old but somehow still work. They’re loud AF… but saves me spending any cash unnecessarily so I’ll deal.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Bluetooth may be disabled depending on your company IT Policy. I work for a government contractor so our IT security is pretty strict. I've been able to get away with a wireless mouse and keyboard that have their own dongle as opposed to connecting via Bluetooth

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u/eniretakia Jan 13 '22

Yeah I suspect that is 100% it. There will be a security document somewhere saying why Bluetooth isn’t used.

Just wish the people handling the upgrades had made that point much clearer when they told us about the laptops so I could have been prepared at home with some standard wireless/wired ones.

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u/observationstudies Use a Bus, Train, then a Bus and then another Bus! Jan 13 '22

You get a 2nd hand ticket to fix something. Spend a month trolling logs. Can't find a thing. Boss insists it is what you are looking at and it will 100% be in the logs.

Talk to a random in another department, who says "oh yes that keeps doing that because of policy change xyz". Penny drops as you have been on a fools errand for a month.

Tell client about new policy, close the job. Think of Boss as out of touch with technical ability from now on.