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Same here. Edmonton is all right, real estate prices at least on our area are not insane yet. But I do wish it was less addicted to cars.

I've seen that in older apartments in Zürich too. But not too sad that this isn't a thing anymore...

Part of it is that some colleagues are on the East Coast, and others are on the West Coast. I'm in the middle, so I start early to align with the East Coast, and then often get involved in things with the West Coast in their afternoon.

So you're right, definitely connected to the work.

Another part is that I'm just bad at not checking messages/dialing notifications... But that's a me problem.

Full time remote since March 2020. I have even moved cities since then, away from the office completely, and the company has hired on and off site over the last three years, mostly going by candidates, not geographical location. That's the way to do it if you can (IT etc).

I'm pretty happy with it. Work wise, people are used to it by now, and as long as we deliver results, we are trusted to work how we see fit. Management is fully on board with it. The social aspects don't bother me much, but the company does hold off site events twice a year, which helps with social ties.

The main downsides for me are a) that I'm missing my bike commute in the summer (free exercise!), and b) that I actually tend to work longer hours since I don't have the commute time anymore.

But not needing a car is great, lots of carbon impact and financial savings there.

Great, that basically seals the deal for me :) thanks again!

And they killed a dog

Thank you for the update, and for the ping :) Very detailed, I really appreciate it! You covered questions I had and some I didn't even know to ask.

One question, youl might have mentioned it and I missed it, but did yours come pre assembled or did you get the diy version? If so, how was the assembly experience? I'm comfortable building my own desktops, do hopefully that's enough to work on the framework?

This basically makes it a certainty that I'm going with a framework next. When the old T420 gets retired. The thing is still hanging in there though...

Edit: I missed it at first, but the screen real estate looks amazing!

Penrose triangles are neat!

Apparently you can activate Windows using this: https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

(Stolen from elsewhere, have not tried myself, might be legally dubious)

Amboss I-IV

Thank you, that's awesome!