Programmer Humor

Full sun and sunglasses? There's no way the guy on the left can see shit on his screen.

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.

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.

It's because you're a mouseclicker. I code for a living, i do everything in the cli, all i need to do to work on a sunny beach is increase the text size and invert the colors

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

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

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.

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

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

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."

Toshiba used to sell a laptop (IIRC the model name was R500) back in like 2008 that had a mirror behind the screen, meaning that bright sunlight would be reflected back through the LCD and always respond to external lighting conditions no matter how bright. The image quality and color was shitty, but you could use it in the sun. Battery time was also extremely impressive.

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.

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.

Imagine having the freedom to work from the beach and still putting on a button down shirt.

How do you even read the screen in broad daylight?

Nah mate screen is awesome outside except most people are stuck on macbooks that are simply unusable due to extreme screen glare.

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

My boss gave me a RTO, so I retired. Union Yes, Baby!

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.

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

I'm dark mode all the way... except in direct sunlight.

The bit about people bringing their laptops to the beach smells like RTO propaganda

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.

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?

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.