company: we’ll give you a work laptop
work laptop:

Ah yes, the MacBook Air with its key travel of 2mm.

First reaction: Is that an eink screen? Gimme!!!

I could have my own... A 12 inch Lenovo ThinkPad with software limitations. No thanks. Ill bring my own.

@LinusCDE My vision is deteriorating at an alarming rate, I would go into debt for a reliable high resolution colour eink laptop.

@homo-lorens That's rough!
I'm personally still young, but already worry about future problems that might occur. My lifestyle is currently not a good one.

Maybe look out for when Onyx releases a colour variant. I think previous models had "second monitor" support. Some chinese brands already seem to have decent color eink devices (but fairly small screens).

During the pandemic I had the chance to refresh my hardware.

I got a mini-ITX workstation in a sweet tiny near-silent Fractal Design case, 12-core Ryzen CPU, 32GB ECC DDR, Gen4 1TB SSD, with a 27 inch display... for $100 cheaper than the current laptop most of my coworkers get.

At the office, I use a Chromebook, for Slack, writing notes, drawing some diagrams.

At home, I code.

@homo-lorens
eInk is still too slow for IDEs. Scrolling would look like a slideshow. You would see "tearing" while the IDE updates the highlighting and stuff like that.

And with high-single-digit FPS, Videos feel even worse than in cinema!

@Oktokolo I think a relatively fast e-ink display would work fine with a CLI-based editor like Vim/Emacs though.

Also

https://youtube.com/watch/...

@bittersweet
Only if you are a slowpoke. It would probably feel like remote editing having a ping of 100ms or more.

@Oktokolo I am a slowpoke, but don't tell my boss.

I still would like a 6 inch smartphone-like device running Linux, with an eink screen and a physical thumb keyboard (like the old Moto Droid phones), with a fat 2-week battery.

@bittersweet
Don't worry, i will not tell. And yes, smartphones are way too thin nowadays - just a matter of time until someone cuts himself on one...