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Sun glare, sand, bad WiFi… yeah, it looks better than it feels 😭
If I’m ever envious of someone doing work in places where they should be relaxing, please kill me.
Behold! E-paper laptops! You can read them outside!
I have a fucking awesome gaming laptop. It has like 2 hours of battery life tops. (the very highly operative word being “tops”) Just today I was anxious about pulling it out of my backpack due to the fact it’s being spingtime and literally all of the winter walkway gravel is in the wind. I’m a Nikon fangirl and I very much hesitated to uncap my lens.
The bit about people bringing their laptops to the beach smells like RTO propaganda
Being on your laptop
outsideis a miserable experienceftfy
As a lifelong desktop PC user, laptops just feel claustrophobic 😅 Especially sucks without a mouse, fuck the trackpad.
I think it’s an excellent compromise for being a portable PC. If I’m going to university, to a study space or a lecture, a laptop is freaking fantastic.
Also all laptops universally have one killer feature that nearly no desktop PC has: a built-in UPS. If power goes out, the laptop just keeps chugging along on battery power, giving you an extra few hours of work.
It’s not my workstation of choice by any means, but I wouldn’t call it miserable. It’s fine.
Bro, people today prefer trackpad. Its fucking mindblowing. Ive met several IRL people that love trackpads and don’t own a mouse.
I almost guarantee I’m 10x faster at anything on a PC than them
Amazingly, there is this nifty thing called a “port” that allows a mouse to be plugged into a laptop. It is pretty incredible technology. /s
I tend to vacillate myself depending on the noise of the environment vs the work at hand. If I need to spread out across a few monitors, dock it. If I just need to do some simple paperwork, portable. If I want to force no distractions, portable (as it is more difficult to see things when your screen real estate is reduced.)
Helps if you have good eyesight too, laptop UIs today are at clown magnification levels anymore.
Amazingly, there is this nifty thing called a “port” that allows a mouse to be plugged into a laptop. It is pretty incredible technology. /s
Yes, I meant that it’s even worse when there’s no mouse plugged in, but I guess my phrasing wasn’t clear :)
Yeah, i have no idea how all those people are doing their work. I need a big monitor or two, a good keyboard and a nice mouse!
My partner is a psycho who does like 90% of her graphic design work on a 13" macbook air using only trackpad
As a graphic designer, I’d quit being a graphic designer if laptop+trackpad was my only option D:
Dude I know these people. My brain explodes at how inefficient they must be.
Sometimes I forget not everyone is computer literate and so fast that their work laptop can’t keep up with them
As a graphic designer I need to ask what the fuck.
I never use drawing tablets, honestly, but I do need a real mouse.
Yeah, i mean she uses a tablet when doing the actual creating part, but mostly the job these days is moving assets around to fit the necessary sizes for different social media. I still don’t understand how someone can stand to do that using a trackpad, but she’s good at what she does so 🤷♂️
Don’t fall asleep.
i use the keyboard nipple myself
Hell yeah another clit stick user, there are dozens of us!
Plug in mouse. If you need to, pllug laptop into external monitor(s)/TV
i have no idea how all those people are doing their work.
like people in cafes “working”.
and what screen is visible on a sunny day outside.
I was thinking that too, just looking at the image is giving me a headache imagining squinting at your screen notched up to full blast and still dim, through your sunglasses.
What in the stock image hell is this. Lmao
Well, these guys aren’t working, as far as I’m concerned, if they can do it without bringing out a mouse and real keyboard and probably a second monitor. (My laptop bag is pretty heavy.) They can at best be checking emails.
Agreed.
If you can do your work on a 13" laptop with no mouse or external monitor without your productivity dropping off a cliff, you were never productive to begin with.
I disagree on the external monitor, not everyone need one or they are just used to using it, also how the OS is scaled matter too
Yeah, tbh I’m fine working as a graphic designer on my single 24-inch screen, not sure what I’d put on another one.
Though I imagine it might be useful when gaming to put a guide or spreadsheet on a smaller, vertical screen.
For real, not having the mouse slows you down big time, even though I’m more or less skilled at keyboard shortcuts
This is like the idea of having sex on the beach. Who really wants that. You didn’t think it through if you want that. Do you really want to invite sand and salmonella to the mix?
Imagine having the freedom to work from the beach and still putting on a button down shirt.
I don’t even like Hawaiian shirts. What’s the point of that collar? Why is western wear so obsessed with putting that style of collar on absolutely everything.
A light wall made button down isn’t all that uncomfortable. I’d call it nice on a breezy day. It’s not a tie.
A nice linen shirt is great in hot weather.
Depends on the print.
Solid color or conservative pattern? Hard pass.
Pineapples or flamingos? Fuck yeah.
What does she mean by outside? Like being in second room ?
I miss the IBM mouse clitoris of the 90s
still there on Thinkpads
You can even get Bluetooth keyboards with them
I literally live in the SF bay area, there’s like 2 good beaches, and none of them are worth the headache it would take to get there
Definitely finding a cafe with a plug. I don’t want to be outside.
Even just being in public. I tried it for one day at Panera while I was writing a professional review. People kept coming up to talk to me, I couldn’t tune the noise out, and I was uncomfortable in their wood chairs.
I’m convinced those suits in Starbucks are just trawling for chicks.
People kept coming up to talk to me [at Panera]
This is just…unimaginable to me. Who goes up to strangers at a chain restaurant? Especially one who is clearly busy? Unless you mean employees, which would be a bit more understandable, though still weird.
Who goes up to strangers at a chain restaurant?
who sets up to work in a public place that serves shitty food?
…lots of people.
It was a lot of old people just being social on a Tuesday. I didn’t mind that so much, reasonably sane old people should be cherished. My brain just isn’t wired for distractions.
One time an old lady kept talking to me at the gardening section of the supermarket. I didn’t have the heart to cut her off, bless her heart.
She did know her shit about flowers though.
Over-ear headphones help with this. Then you can just ignore them and pretend you can’t hear.
(My neurospicy is showing…)
I go traveling with the sales guys sometimes, and we had Starbucks in between meetings so that we can sit down and do email for an hour and then go to the next meeting. I wouldn’t want to sit there all day.
I work from home and I never get to the point where I want to go out in public and do work. I do get to the point where I want to go on public, but I take a walk and get some sun and I don’t bring my laptop.
We need rLCD laptops
or e-ink
