Septimaeus

Yes, they were BSing. They’re sold with only a basic collection of 1st-party apps. To get one with 3rd-party bloatware requires special provisioning meant for employee work phones, but it’s uncommon to find in the wild.

Any major city in the West.

More visibly specialized knives, like cleavers, will turn fewer heads, but only if carried in a demonstrably safe and non-threatening manner, such as cradling the hilt with an outward grip.

Habitually using your own machine for non-work tasks often lets you keep certain records of the research process which begat the work, even while the client/employer owns the work itself through SLA/NDA/AOI. This typically includes records contributing to general “personal expertise,” such as query history, bookmarks, generalized notes, and other non-proprietary information.

It also lends to an overall impression of professional sprezzatura when the client can only see a history of master strokes, without the nitty-gritty details of your autodidactic effort.

Assign it as a research collection task to a junior dev and forget to follow up.

(Fr tho, auto doc frameworks and related instrumentation are easily worth weeks. I will fight your manager.)

I think he meant ‘first’ as in top-most, the one with the preemptive disclaimer.