As opposed to the office where I’m definitely not doing just enough to not get fired

Sounds like my job description

Sounds like California

The code is compiling LLM is training. ok?

You must be someone who hates working from home, because home is the place where we should all feel relaxed, right? What about working in the garden? The garden is certainly a relaxation spot, but god forbid you get some rays of sunshine while you work.

I understand the desire to pity people who work at the beach. But then again, I pity anyone who ended up living near Silicon Valley. Think of all the money though!

The same thing would work with e-ink. It works fine in super bright sunlight. Unfortunately since it physically spins little balls with electromagnets the refresh rate is very slow compared to conventional screens.

interesting. most modern lcds have a shiny reflective layer behind the backlight for this reason, I wonder if they're all modeled after toshibas design

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.

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.

One guy even has sunglasses, like there's no way he can see anything

For those who can't install much on their work laptop: just open notepad and put a weight on the space bar

Bonus point: you can see how long you've been away by looking at the character count, and try to beat high scores on slow days

I love sitting in my hammock or on a zero-gravity chair with my laptop on work days I don't need 2 monitors.

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

I work on industrial production lines. I've gotten used enough to laptops that I don't mind too much.

Work from home on my 34" curved screen + 27" flat is amazing tho.

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.

I can't work on a big screen. I'm thriving on my laptop with my 3x3 virtual desktop grid, though.

For real, not having the mouse slows you down big time, even though I'm more or less skilled at keyboard shortcuts

I have a monstrous satellite l300 i use for light spec work and arduino programming. 17" screen. It does not feel claustrophobic in the slightest, unlike my latest gen dell work machine with a screen smaller than my first fucking 486 i need glasses to even see. where did we go so wrong.

I do most things on my laptop mouseless, or that is, trackpadless. It's the best feeling ever. I seriously recommend it to anyone.

I recently discovered this thing called books that also works great outside. And it’s a lot more fun than laptop work!

and fall asleep afterwards and get a nasty sunburn?

They'll be blind inside a month trying to work like that.

They're polarized so you can see fine