Programmer Humor

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!

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.

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.

laptop outside is fine but on the beach? why don't you pour the sand in manually at home?

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”.

This only works, if your job is sitting and waiting for other people to do the work.

How is this programmer humor? This is just programmer truth.

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.

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.

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.

Sun glare, sand, bad WiFi… yeah, it looks better than it feels 😭

Being on your laptop ~~outside~~ is a miserable experience

ftfy

As a lifelong desktop PC user, laptops just feel claustrophobic 😅 Especially sucks without a mouse, fuck the trackpad.

If I’m ever envious of someone doing work in places where they should be relaxing, please kill me.

I work outside all spring, cool summer days, and a lot during the fall. 8 hours or more out there, hacking away, taking Zoom calls. I have a decent time with sunglasses and my MacBook Pro.

Working outside can be fun. At least AS long AS you dont need that good of an internet connection, have a comfy place to sit in and are at a somewhat dark spot, so you can still see on your screen.

If and only if these three things are all given, than it can be quite nice to work outside.

Gotta turn the brightness all the way up so you squint at your laptop for about an hour before it dies and you have a tension headache.

Behold! E-paper laptops! You can read them outside!

No work is getting done there. They’re pretending it does.