Working outside
2026-03-20 13:13 UTC
Replies (40)
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@kazerniel@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 17:34
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.
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@cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2026-03-20 13:22
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.
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@orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2026-03-20 13:19
No work is getting done there. They’re pretending it does.
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@Soup@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 19:13
If I’m _ever_ envious of someone doing work in places where they _should_ be relaxing, please kill me.
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@jeniferariza@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 19:53
Sun glare, sand, bad WiFi… yeah, it looks better than it feels 😭
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@tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-20 14:45
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.
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@TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 2026-03-20 15:15
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.
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@socsa@piefed.social 2026-03-20 17:09
Imagine having the freedom to work from the beach and still putting on a button down shirt.
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-03-20 13:17
How do you even read the screen in broad daylight?
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@Bieren@lemmy.today 2026-03-21 12:28
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.
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@altphoto@lemmy.today 2026-03-20 19:51
Behold! E-paper laptops! You can read them outside!
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@TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 2026-03-20 17:49
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?
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@umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2026-03-20 19:33
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.
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@grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-20 19:51
The bit about people bringing their laptops to the beach smells like RTO propaganda
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@pyre@lemmy.world 2026-03-21 12:29
laptop outside is fine but on the beach? why don't you pour the sand in manually at home?
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@drmoose@lemmy.world 2026-03-21 02:50
Nah mate screen is awesome outside except most people are stuck on macbooks that are simply unusable due to extreme screen glare.
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@Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2026-03-22 11:50
Full sun and sunglasses? There's no way the guy on the left can see shit on his screen.
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@Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 2026-03-21 10:00
This only works, if your job is sitting and waiting for other people to do the work.
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@some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 13:37
For those with modern MacBooks capable of HDR, check out an app called “Vivid” for working outdoors. I use it. Life changer.
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@FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 13:46
I'm more concerned about the bagels served in bowls rather than the beach side work tbh
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@SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2026-03-21 10:32
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.
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@OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2026-03-21 15:44
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."
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@mudkip@lemdro.id 2026-03-21 09:06
How is this programmer humor? This is just programmer truth.
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@ClownStatue@piefed.social 2026-03-20 15:11
Especially anywhere near a beach! Aside from the sunlight, all the sand in the air getting everywhere. ¡No bueno!
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 13:48
You're still working to make someone else rich. I'm not sure being in full sunlight at the beach is much of a consolation.
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@TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-20 18:26
I miss the IBM mouse clitoris of the 90s
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@toad@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-22 08:26
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
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@Grimy@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 13:28
I like it. My patio table has an umbrella though.
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@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-20 17:28
We need rLCD laptops
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@P1k1e@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 18:11
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
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@9point6@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 14:14
Any time I've gone to "work" from home somewhere fun, no actual work is getting done, no matter how genuinely I try
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-03-20 14:11
Sitting next to a laptop doesn't mean I'm working. It's the same at the beach and in the office.
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@kholby@lemmy.world 2026-03-21 16:57
I'm dark mode all the way... except in direct sunlight.
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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-21 15:03
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.
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@sunbeam60@feddit.uk 2026-03-21 12:20
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”.
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@KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2026-03-21 09:40
Maybe it's the oled but I have had summer hacking feels without the pain
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@irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-20 23:36
How do people see the screen
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@craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 2026-03-20 15:23
You can double the brightness of an LCD relative to its surroundings by wearing polarised sunglasses
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@shartworx@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-20 13:48
Bees
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@Agrivar@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 14:26
LPT - quit your office job and get a job in construction - you get to actually work when you're "working outside" *and* you can enjoy using your computer for entertainment only... inside where they belong.