I think people should read the actual NY Times interview because this post reads very unhinged and foaming at the mouth. So many things taken out of context and twisted to fuel a narrative.

The real interview was pretty soft but AOC was pretty clear and transparent in what she does and why.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230831054327/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/aoc-third-term-congress.html

Maybe it’s different for the upper management types, but for me I am easily 3x more productive at home in < 6 hours than I ever was at 8+ hours in the office.

There are soo many distractions in the office environment we had (cubicle farm). People chatting behind me, constant noise, people coming up to my desk throughout the day to ask me something and disrupt my entire workflow.

I work in my quiet home with headphones on listening to music. When people need something from me they ping me in Teams or send an email and I get to choose when to stop my work to respond. And when I really need to focus I can throw on Do Not Disturb mode. In the office “Do Not Disturb” was me booking a conference room for myself to work in silence.

I have 2 ultrawide setups

1. Work - 34 inch ultrawide with macbook sitting in front. I use the keyboard and trackpad of the laptop instead of a separate keyboard/mouse. I love the ultrawide for web development.
2. Gaming desk - 38inch ultrawide with a 27 in on the side. I rocked a single monitor for a while, but I got really tired of alt tabbing out of a game to see a message, or look at a guide. Second monitor is really nice to have. I did have the 27in vertical for a while, but this particular monitor has really shitty color shift so it’s horizontal now until I get the motivation to swap it out for a different monitor I have

Its a great indexer. This and nzbgeek and I need pretty much nothing else

Oof, I don’t know if I want to recommend anything I’m interested in as it cost lots of money to really enjoy these hobbies.

I guess at the base of it, my biggest hobby is generally upgrading every aspect of my day to day life.

Building PC’s

I’ve got 3 gaming PC’s in the house (wife’s, mine, and another for the tv with steam-big-picture) and also an Unraid server for media.

Desk Setups

I have 2 separate desk I put together. One for work and one for gaming. Both desk are wood countertops bolted onto sit-and-stand desk frames.

Work desk has a 34inch ultrawide. I also have a Herman Miller Logitech Embody which has helped my back immensely.

Gaming desk has a 38inch ultrawide which is awesome for gaming. And I have a Herman Miller non-logitech Embody. There are some subtle differences in how they feel and I need 2 chairs because I sit a little differently if I’m working or gaming.

Audio

I fell into the audio trap for my gaming and work desk partially thanks to r/headphones.

Headphones wise I have:

• Sennheiser 599SE - At my gaming desk
• AKG K713Pro - These were for my gaming desk, but I don’t like them as much as the others. My ears touch the driver which doesn’t feel good.
• Drop 6xx - At my work desk because I listen to the most music while working.

Amp/Dac/Mixer:

• JDS Atom Amp - work desk
• Schiit stack (Modi 3+ / Magni Heresy) - gaming desk; I just got these so I’m testing things out.
• Mackie 8 channel mixer - at gaming desk because I like using physical sliders to adjust gaming, music, discord instead of software.
• RE320 dynamic microphone

Everything above has been collected over the last 4-5 years or so.

Oh also OP if you made it this far down, check out twitch streams for a “board game” called Blood on the Clocktower. It’s a social deduction game you can play in person, but the community built a pretty comprehensive web-based tool to play online. My wife and I watch the streams every week it’s a lot of fun. She plays in some of the games too, I mostly just like to watch.

Read through the post, OP mentioned a few times that this isn’t about a phone war. It’s just one persons experience going from Android to iPhone; what worked well and what didn’t.

I think a lot of folks have picked an ecosystem and never strayed from it; seeing a post like this helps fill the gaps of their curiosity. Being exposed to other people’s experiences and experience a change yourself is a good thing.

At the end of the day phones are just tools to help you go about your day to day. We don’t have to foam at the mouth over a discussion like this. iPhones are very good devices and have great synergy with other Apple devices and apps. Android is a very customizable experience which has many great phones at very good prices. You can’t go wrong with either IMO.

One of my greatest joys is going to a new restaurant and ordering an old fashion. The quality of that drink sets the whole mood for my dining experience.

That’s awesome and what a deal. I think my mother-in-law has at least another year or so before we need to think about swapping hardware, but these little guys make so much sense.

I never realized until recently that a NUC is the perfect device for my aging mother-in-law. She has an old gaming desktop (sans-gpu) with a i5-4670 that is plugged up to a 1080p monitor next to her recliner chair. At some point that PC will die and these seem like a pretty meaty upgrade in a tiny box.

I’m glad someone “reputable” is taking the helm.

That’s exactly why I finally pulled the trigger on the 6XX. It’s already on sale but even if it wasn’t it’s still over $100 cheaper than the reg 650’s.

The bathroom was pretty bad at our old building. We had 4 floors with a couple hundred people on each floor, but the men’s room was just 2 urinals and 2 stalls for each floor. So if you needed that stall you often ended up having to go to multiple floors to find a bathroom stall that wasn’t already occupied.

The lack of privacy in general too. We had short cubicles with your monitors facing outward so anyone could see what you were looking at at any given time. If I wanted to take a 10 minute break to look at some reddit (beehaw now) I’d often feel like I’m going to get caught and spoken to.

Things I like about working in an office:

• I liked my coworkers
• I liked going for random breaks to go walk somewhere or have lunch and get away from the desk

Things that sucked:

• Constant noise and distractions
• Small talk with people that I just don’t want to spend the mental energy talking to
• 1.5 hours worth of commute time that just eats away at my day

I’ve been remote working since Covid first landed. I will happily trade all the things I liked about working in an office to never have to deal with the parts I don’t like. If I can help it, I’ll always choose remote work. I get so much done here at home in both work and home stuff. Oh I forgot to do laundry over the weekend, no biggie. Oh I need to marinate something, boom 10 minute break. Finished all my planned work for the day? Going to knock off early and go play a game or watch a show.

Remote work has transformed my life and I’ll never go back to the office.

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I mostly downloaded an app, Feedly and then Inoreader (I like this one better). Then I just used their interface to subscribe to all the sites I was interested in. It was as easy as subscribing to subs on reddit. I get a lot of repeat articles as I have a lot of crossover, but overall it’s been pretty good.

I ended up setting up rss feeds and am reading more articles now. I come here for the comment socializing and occasionally I still use reddit in Google searches when I need more specific information.

The small drop in users isn’t super surprising. I’m more interested in the drop of mods and tools. If more garbage slips through on the regular than I can imagine users start to drop off from their favorite subs turning to shit. Either way I’m done with reddit

There would have been no outrage if Reddit valued its users. If they came out and said they were going to start charging (a reasonable amount) for API access but were giving developers until the end of the year to prepare no one would have batted an eye.

Most would probably migrate to the Reddit app for free. Some would just start paying to use the app of their choice and we’d have moved on.

Reddit showed their true colors which was a big f you to the free labor and free content producers of their platform.

I would’ve paid $5-$10 a month to Apollo had this all been handled professionally. Instead I’ve deleted Reddit , fired up an rss feed app and I’m also here now. There’s a handful of communities I haven’t found a suitable replacement for but I’ll live.