Mobile? Who Are We Kidding?
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Mobile? Who Are We Kidding?
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#2My employer has a policy that I can't use my personal machine for work :( so I have to wrangle with two and the moving of them about.
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#3Very much on board with this post's perspective.
I've been very appreciative of the setup we have at my office, with our development machines being remotely accessible via RDP (through a company VPN). RDP isn't perfect, and it's not something I'd like to do full time, but definitely is good enough in a jam.
This amounts to me only needing my Kindle and phone for my commute.
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#4Because some idiot in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be "out of style", now people are forced to step it up to something larger, so then people say, well I may as well fill up this big bag with junk if I'm being forced to carry it.
Solution: Let's kill that douchenozzle who declared fanny packs were bad, and go back to fanny packs. I certainly did. I never STOPPED fannypacking... because I'm not a spineless douchebag like the rest of you are who are too afraid to wear a fannypack.
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#5My home computer is my work computer, and vice versa. I work from home several days per week, but I'm out consulting for the rest, so my laptop is usually always with me. I've thought about taking just an iPad but I like having the ability to catch up on some iOS programming during quiet periods.
The biggest reduction in what I travel around with has been to leave old PSUs at places I visit regularly to save me carrying them with me.
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#6Because some idiot in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be "out of style", now people are forced to step it up to something larger, so then people say, well I may as well fill up this big bag with junk if I'm being forced to carry it. Solution: Let's kill that douchenozzle who declared fanny packs were bad, and go back to fanny packs. I certainly did. I never STOPPED fannypacking... because I'm not a spineless douche…
Difficult to fit a laptop in a fanny pack, or even a 10-inch tablet. I suppose you might be able to fit a phone (which fits easily in a pocket anyway) or a 7-inch tablet.
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#7If carrying bags of stuff is not really a problem, then as things get smaller, we carry more of them.
What do I carry? Laptop, paper notebook, my lovely noise cancellng headphones, a charger, an external battery for my phone, a usb charger, some bits of paper. Some times I add a tablet or kindle to the mix. Other times a raspberry pi or other embedded device.
I obviously prioritise having enough tools with me to work anywhere I like with maximum comfort.
Its all a matter of priorities.
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#8I don't have this problem when going to or from work, but I did have it when traveling. I have pared down my travel kit to my iPhone and iPad and an Apple keyboard, and more often than not, it's enough. I have all the entertainment I'll need during downtime between games and Netflix/Hulu/iTunes. I can type up quick stuff in any number of text editors for the iPad (I use Pages, mostly). And Prompt is an amazing terminal client that lets me connect to my server or home machine if need be. If worse comes to worse, I can use a VNC client and get to my home machine in all it's glory pretty comfortably. I'd say that combination is pretty mobile.
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#9I don't agree.
The only things I carry are an iPad, a credit card a sweater and the keys to my home. If it's not cold I leave the sweater, if someone's at home I leave the keys, if I'm not going to work I leave the iPad... sometimes I leave my home w/ just my card.
I think it's just a matter of what you're used to...
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#10Because some idiot in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be "out of style", now people are forced to step it up to something larger, so then people say, well I may as well fill up this big bag with junk if I'm being forced to carry it. Solution: Let's kill that douchenozzle who declared fanny packs were bad, and go back to fanny packs. I certainly did. I never STOPPED fannypacking... because I'm not a spineless douche…
This post is possibly one of the best cautionary tales I've ever heard for "choose your battles wisely". I'm not even kidding- in its own way, it's up there with Napoleon in Russia and the Microsoft Kin. If one is prepared to stand astride the world in open defiance of universal opposition, fanny packs may not be worthiest of causes upon which to blow that particular wad.