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Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

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Re: Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

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Post by ljf »

iainmerrick wrote: post #54
ljf wrote: post #14

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The 'problem' with those for remote workers is that you pay per minute/hour in a cybercafe - in a normal coffee shop you can just nurse one coffee for hours and pay a single low cost (and get a coffee). I can't remember the name of it now but back in 2010s there was an 'OK' managed drop-in office space you could rent for £10 a day in central London - which came with free coffee and printing - I haven't looked at the…

Wow, I'd be curious about the details if you can remember. I was working from cafes in London at that time, and I would have loved to find a place like that. I had to either use actual cafes (free besides getting a coffee and maybe a sandwich, limited privacy and security) or pay for a dedicated space, generally with too much tedious bureaucracy. Maybe I misremember, but to get prices as low as £10/day I think you ha…

Just looked up my email - and in 2012 I paid £10 4 hours in the Regus shared working space in central London - I think a 7 hour day might of been £12 but I don't have a full booking. From memory it was behind Bond Street - I was working for a small company in East London, and was taking the afternoon off to interview for another role. I wanted to be able to work right up until the interview and have somewhere to get changed into my suit, so didn't want to work from a cafe. I'd seen the offer in various 'business' magazines at the time, it wasn't brilliant, and I wouldn't have been happy their full time, but it was perfect for the day I needed it for.

Prior to that time we had been paying £330 a month for a desk on Dean Street Soho - but that was a monthly rolling contract as you say, and we'd just moved to some free space in Farringdon, where a friend was letting us use a desk (I think in part to make their office look busier).

There was a drop in place in East London that offered similar day prices back in 2010, as I went to look around it - but it was too noisy for me - was walking distance to the Silicon Roundabout - but I can't remember what it was called.

Re: Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

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Post by philipallstar »

arkh wrote: post #21
pstuart wrote: post #2

Seems like an opportunity for a coworking-lite space -- rent a seat/desk spot for 1 hour blocks.

What a novel concept! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_bang

I first assumed this was a YouTube video where someone eats a PC in front of their livestream audience.

Re: Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

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Post by librasteve »

londons_explore wrote: post #59
dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #53

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Sorry to bother you but I have so many questions! Like, did you actually do it or was it just a middle joke I didn't detect? If the former, wasn't you afraid the printer won't be usable after that experiment? Didn't that worry you? Do you often experiment in this way? (Just stopping there to give otherwise the list gets too long.)

I have literally hundreds of HP print heads from a project, many partly blocked or burned out (they burn if you send them the wrong signals, and like 10% of the time I hit 'break' on my debugger it burns a few jets out if they're firing at the time), and had a coffee sitting right next to my desk so thought "why not".

yeah, but can you bubble jet maybe a photo onto a flat white?

Re: Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

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Post by londons_explore »

librasteve wrote: post #74
londons_explore wrote: post #59

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I have literally hundreds of HP print heads from a project, many partly blocked or burned out (they burn if you send them the wrong signals, and like 10% of the time I hit 'break' on my debugger it burns a few jets out if they're firing at the time), and had a coffee sitting right next to my desk so thought "why not".

yeah, but can you bubble jet maybe a photo onto a flat white?

That is a stretch goal of my project, but right now I wouldn't be confident I have a method to flush out the OEM and probably toxic ink.

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Post by eqvinox »

xg15 wrote: post #72

At this point I wonder why Starbucks hasn't diversified and started building actual coworking spaces in addition to coffee shops. They look like they should be in an ideal position for that.

They'd have to charge people for using those, which people won't be eager to. The point of coffee shops in this regard is that the use as free coworking space is "parasitic" on the space being financed by the café business.

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Post by doublerabbit »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #35
bryanhogan wrote: post #10

Having lived in Korea, I have always enjoyed the cafe culture. Starbucks there is known for accepting you to work there. Although I haven't seen anyone bring a printer yet, some do bring extra stuff such as a stand for their laptop that take up a lot of space. The only thing this article mentions is that Starbucks prohibits people of bringing stuff that would take up more than a single seat, which seems reasonable?

I used to travel with a Canon PIXMA printer. Quite portable. Could carry a laptop and printer in a small backpack. The paper was heavy, though.

What were you printing that required a print to be carried with you?

Personally printing should be banned. The amount of paper waste we create disgraceful.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

doublerabbit wrote: post #77
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #35

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I used to travel with a Canon PIXMA printer. Quite portable. Could carry a laptop and printer in a small backpack. The paper was heavy, though.

What were you printing that required a print to be carried with you? Personally printing should be banned. The amount of paper waste we create disgraceful.

I worked for a Japanese company. Paper is a big deal, there.

Also, I have long subscribed to Tufte's "supergraphic" methodology, when giving presentations.

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Post by ahartmetz »

xenospn wrote: post #64
ahartmetz wrote: post #57

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Show me that quiet, 16 core, 5 GHz, 128 GB RAM laptop that's actually pretty cheap, too. I do need the CPU performance, that computer is used to compile C++ code. The RAM is for local LLMs - not fast enough to be practical most of the time tbh, but I like to experiment anyway.

Keep that beast humming at home and get a cheap MacBook Air to use ssh at the coffee shop.

Thinkpad with Linux and it's got 8 cores as well (thanks AMD!) because remote development isn't great for what I'm doing and how fast a connection I can rely on.
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