Comment by samschooler
6 months ago
There is a photo in the Korea Herald article linked in op's article. https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10550038
6 months ago
There is a photo in the Korea Herald article linked in op's article. https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10550038
OMG someone brought in a cubicle
And what looks like a keychron mechanical keyboard! (Loud AF)
What the hell .. that is crazy.
Reminds me a bit of when TPUG in Toronto used to set up entire Commodore PET rigs in coffee shops.
For reference, a Commodore PET weighs about 25 pounds, and is the size of a toilet bowl.
Double all that if you want to use a floppy disk.
Having used a Commdore PET, I cannot stop laughing at this size comparison.
It reminds of the observation that some people will go to great lengths to avoid the metric system.
That must be a tablet made to look like a desktop setup right?
Could be a monitor with a mini PC on the back.
Nope. On closer inspection, it's a tablet resting on a stand; it's not mounted with a VESA clamp or arm like most monitors would be. You can see the USB charging cable is plugged into the side of the tablet as well. When you compare it to the keyboard and headphones next to it, it must be about 11-13 inches in size, so it's unlikely to hold a mini PC on the back as it wouldn't be heavy enough to prevent toppling over. The stand would be bigger too if it could hold a mini PC.
wonder if you can bring a tent inside and camp
I understand it's tongue-in-cheek, but you're actually describing a real problem Starbucks and other casual-style restaurants (McDonalds) have in Seattle. The downtown business districts are almost completely overrun by homelessness and many places in the area have stopped offering seating and only offer counter pick-up and standing tables/rails.
Homeless people do it all the time in certain cities. And because judges won't jail them for crimes police have stopped trying.
How will jailing them help? Now the public is on the hook for them. Plus, more jails will be needed if you wanna move all the unhoused in there.
Maybe its easier just to build more housing.
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Interesting. Can a tourist set up a tent in New York City in order to not pay ridiculous hotel fees or this is allowed only to citizens?
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how prevalent. is hate on homeless people in the usa?
Bizzare entitlement
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I think it’s quite a stretch for you to interpret the parent comment like that. Surely they’re referring to people’s entitled behaviour in this private space.
A generation ago we didn't have public third places where people could plug in a desktop computer and printer.
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They're not "wishing" they're just "taking". And yes that's kind of definitionally entitlement.
Imagine you can get up to the bathroom and nobody steals your monitor
The words "steal" and "bathroom" reminded me of a funny case when hand dryers started disappearing in bathrooms of several shopping malls in a large Russian city. In all cases, there was the same person with a large bag filmed nearby, but as there is no camera inside, it is difficult to understand if he did anything or not. Guess unsupervised tablet (aka "monitor") would not stay there for long.
Well, Russians stole washing machines from Ukraine, of course they also steal other smaller appliances as well.
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That's absolutly crazy