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I’m dark mode all the way… except in direct sunlight.
I remember in ~2000 someone was in the parking lot of my office at a picnic table on their laptop and people commented how “cool” that was.
I’ve noticed since then that IT people qualify anything that drives work into personal spaces as “cool”.
2012: Wow, you can hot spot to your blackberry and connect your laptop to the Internet from the ferry, when you used to just let the wind ruffle your hair during your commute? “Cool.”
2026: Wow AI can write 78% of your code so you can produce twice as much shitty code while you spend even more time at your desk then you used to, for less money? “Cool.”
My boss gave me a RTO, so I retired. Union Yes, Baby!
I work outside all the time. It’s great. Use my laptop on the screened in porch. In the shade. Ceiling fan on. Maybe in the hammock. Doing whatever I want on the laptop while jiggler keeps my work laptop active in another room.
I love sitting in my hammock or on a zero-gravity chair with my laptop on work days I don’t need 2 monitors.
It’s the brightness and lack of cooling with my M2 MacBook Air. I have that, my iPhone, and my Galaxy S10. I’m on Lemmy on the S10. Even that isn’t as bright as my iPhone, but the typing is ten billion percent better.
laptop outside is fine but on the beach? why don’t you pour the sand in manually at home?
That glare makes it impossible to see too
If I’m in the zone I want to sit in a medium dark room with fucking no one talking to me or “having a great time”.
Even if you have a high nits screen that laptop is gonna run hot in direct sunlight. Screens don’t exactly like that. Especially something like an OLED. It will degrade the screen faster.
Screens degrade? I’ve been using the same one for 10+ years and I bought it used for $20.
Yeah they degrade. Tech has improved a lot and they don’t degrade as fast as screens from the 2000’s but they still degrade. OLED more so than LCD. But if they degrade gradually and evenly you won’t really notice.
I spent all my childhood life growing up on a dairy farm. Worked from home, got to do various types of exciting manual labor and operate somewhat dangerous machinery, AND I got to work outside no matter the weather.
So suck on that California. You ain’t that special.
This only works, if your job is sitting and waiting for other people to do the work.
Or making PowerPoint slides full of LinkedIn lunatic lingo.
I feel like we could double click on that statement and go granular!
Let me just do a quick recap here so we’re all on the same page.
I feel fully aligned.
Great! Now let’s leverage the key learnings into a win win scenario.
How is this programmer humor? This is just programmer truth.
Maybe it’s the oled but I have had summer hacking feels without the pain
Nah mate screen is awesome outside except most people are stuck on macbooks that are simply unusable due to extreme screen glare.
Can’t tell if you are describing a screen type or are Aussie
Nah everything is fine except there are people I don’t like doing things I don’t like…
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, yeah trying to work in a park is refreshing until some dumbass drives up with his music shaking the very earth
If I’m ever envious of someone doing work in places where they should be relaxing, please kill me.
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!
That’s one extreme way to take the comment, I guess. I worked from home for a while and I think these return to office orders are stupid as hell, largely because going to the office needs unpaid commuting time, annoyances related to needing to bring a lunch, and it takes away your ability to do small chores and stuff during the work day that might be often impossible during the evening for one reason or another.
Look, if you want to work at the beach or whatever then go for it, but the idea that California is the “envy of nations” because people can do labour at a beach is insanity.
Sun glare, sand, bad WiFi… yeah, it looks better than it feels 😭
