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Re:What if remote work didn’t mean working from home? by berkes on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:09AM (#27286960)
While I do use a large second screen, often, I don't need it all the time.

I don't need it when cleaning my inbox. Or planning a sprint. I don't need it when conferencing. Or when designing an architecture. I don't need it when reviewing PRs, stepping through a debugger, poring through logs, deploying, running ansible or finding what config made that deploy fail.

I split my time as such. I can work on my laptop for a morning, then go home and plug into my large screen just fine. It actually helps me focus: multi-monitor = coding. Laptop only = other work.

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Re:What if remote work didn’t mean working from home? by chrisandchris on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:50PM (#27294525)
> [...] I don't need it when reviewing PRs, stepping through a debugger, poring through logs, deploying, running ansible or finding what config made that deploy fail. [...]

Interesting how people work different. Would not like to dig through logs without 2 monitors (allows to have 4 different logs open). Same with debugging (having multiple source positions visible). Or deploying (watching logs/deployment progress). Reviewing PR (having spec side-by-side with code).

It could not imagine any task I could do in a park (besides playing with a dog ;) )...

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