[merolish]

I've come to avoid having dates or catching up with friends at certain coffee shop-style places after a couple experiences where we were literally surrounded by people silently on their laptops. I prefer to have conversations without an audience of strangers.

And this is probably me getting old but I don't know how people can spend hours hunched over a laptop in café seating, as opposed to an ergonomic office chair and monitor at eye level.

[cco]

>And this is probably me getting old but I don't know how people can spend hours hunched over a laptop in café seating, as opposed to an ergonomic office chair and monitor at eye level.

Ask any orthopedist, it catches up to them. We can all buffer it for a certain amount of time, but anybody who does this for a long time will develop issues.

[ajdlinux]

> And this is probably me getting old

I realised I was having posture issues with extended laptop use at approximately age 23 or so.

[flukus]

> where we were literally surrounded by people silently on their laptops.

That doesn't even sound like coffee shop is the right description, that's an office that sells coffee.