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Or you may go further and bring a 30 $ used/old laptop with 1G ram and a stipped-down Linux such as Alpine+fluxbox. Your employer should quickly understand that they need to give you a new machine for you to be productive :)
Or even further, you may also say that you only have a fixed desktop computer and no laptop.
Buy a $50 used chromebook and take it in.
What's the rush, why not enjoy another week in the garden? Surely the paperwork and meet/greets can wait. On their part I'm seeing a lack of preparedness, adaptability, or boundaries; unsure which. Maybe a combination. Are you ready for this to consistently happen? They certainly seem more eager than anything else.
If/when they do get around to providing, I suspect it won't be long until your personal laptop collection grows with the end of another startup.
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Right there with you. I'll have to see how it plays out on Monday.
I would take out my personal SSD, put in a blank one and freshly install the needed OS. Just to conform, and in case I needed a working machine until I found out whether they were serious enough to properly supply the necessities. If not, then I could carry on with my own "good as new" laptop dedicated to the employer as long as necessary until I had collected enough pay to get an additional one for myself. Nicer one…
Using your machine "until I found out whether they were serious enough to properly supply the necessities." makes no sense whatsoever. They aren't. You don't need to waste any energy finding out, they fact that they asked gave you your answer.