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The way this person carries their laptop
by /u/deadfrogscaskett | 109 comments | 2026-06-12T21:13:50+00:00 Central
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Spotted in the wild the other day
Edit Context: They were leaving an outdoor food
truck seating area on a super windy/sunny day. Idek
what kind of work you could be doing there.
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| /u/ElbowRager https://preview.redd.it/sin143ie5x6h1.png?width=764&form at=png&auto=webp&s=b1ffb6438e22bc60689e0634da2d7899879de 68e You should see the inside of an Amazon Warehouse. This is how every laptop is held. |
| /u/SeeYouInTrees The open hands palms facing inside cuz inside is dead |
| /u/ElbowRager Literally walking while in rigor mortis |
| /u/thinprivileged I thought of this video immediately after I typed it |
| /u/builder397 Is the laptop company property? If so I wouldnt give half a fuck either. |
| /u/DevForFun150 Probably keeping it from locking so you don't have to log back in / wake it up when you get where you're going |
| /u/Green__lightning It used to be because they took forever to boot, then it was because of big slow downloads, now it's because you're waiting on the AI. |
| /u/PerforatedPie Nah sometimes industrial software (read: poorly tested overpriced crap) doesn't like being put to sleep. Also Microsoft are dicks for making laptops sleep by default when you close the lid. Much better to just have it turn the screen off (massive power savings) but keep working in the background, at least until a regular sleep timeout hits. |
| /u/UpperAd5715 Isnt this a pretty easy thing to fix? you can search for options with "lid" and it should give you options for what it does when the lid closes, which you can set to "none". Other options are off (we did this for grandpa) and sleep. I don't think this is locked behind admin privileges though i guess an amazon might lock it somehow.. |
| /u/Feletroica When gou are under a medium/big company, almost every configuration cannot be changed without admin privileges. It's a pain in the ass to get IT to change anything |
| /u/ElbowRager Yeah. The corpo boys (n girls) get MacBooks, but us lowly warehouse folks get old ass HP's and ThinkPads. |
| /u/ElbowRager Honestly, wouldn't be surprised. You'd think a trillion dollar tech company would have better...tech. |
| /u/Violoner Sorry, Bezos needs the money to build a 10,000 year clock inside of a mountain |
| /u/Suicideduck710 No kidding lmao fuck |
| /u/Major-Unicorn-Proto bezo and the other tech goons are all building bunkers in new zealand |
| /u/SilentPhilosophy3307 Jeff Bezos is complete trash, but I do really like the 10,000 year clock inside of a mountain idea. |
| /u/Kelvinek Better odds of breaking fragile macbook, than sturdy thinkpad in the warehouse, warehouse people also gotta be productive |
| /u/SpoonEngineT66Turbo Idk what these people are smoking. I have never seen someone in any "field" position using a macbook for work. The fancy stuff is all Thinkpads, Toughbooks, or Latitudes, and the rest is just usually a cheap surface pro or pretty much any non-mac laptop. I don't know why you would even have a Mac operating system for a warehouse job. Anyone working in that position is about 1000x more likely to be way more familiar with windows. |
| /u/Over-Meringue-5663 Thinkpads are good tho. But I'm guessing it's the dirt cheap ones... |
| /u/SmartOpinion69 dirty cheap thinkpads have a huge following in the thinkpad community. some people still raving about how their thinkpad x230 still holds up over the years |
| /u/Grentain Holy shit they give the warehouse folks better computers than the corpos?? |
| /u/underdoge2286 What I would give to have a thinkpad again instead of a dell. |
| /u/RedWhiteAndJew Why would you need anything more? |
| /u/GryphticonPrime Funny enough, the senior managers and product managers at Amazon often had Windows laptops (HPs). It was usually the engineers who went around with MacBook Pros. |
| /u/TheYellowChicken Thinkpads are better anyways |
| /u/the_orange_alligator Is this like how you can spot a chicfila employee by having them do something and seeing if they say "my pleasure" |
| /u/weenis_machinist And you know you messed up when a worker at a Disney resort tells you to "have a Disney day" |
| /u/GTK_Aztech I wasn't going to be working at Chic Fila in the first place, but I really ain't if they make you say "my pleasure." "Thanks" and "no problem" are the best I can do. |
| /u/awkwardaustin609 Didn't see this comment until I just left mine talking about amazon warehouse leads lmao |
| /u/ElbowRager Not my drawing* it's by u/Hawthornehoots Saw it a long time ago and saved it because it was so accurate. |
| /u/SignificantApricot69 I'm happy I wasn't the only one who scrolled across this and immediately thought about the Amazon laptop hold |
| /u/horenso05 They have a Claude Code session open and don't want to close the lid. |
| /u/gthing This. And also it seems like people don't realize you can remote control a claude code session on your phone with /remote-control. |
| /u/BergaDev Remote control still needs the laptop open though, why so many are buying Mac Minis |
| /u/husfyr You can get Amphetamine which keep the mac open even though the lid is closed. |
| /u/eightofdiamonds Took me a second to understand how amphetamine helps the Macbook. |
| /u/suentendo It helps with everything https://giphy.com/gifs/kfoIY1mGkk9GXVWlUe |
| /u/EsperaDeus https://giphy.com/gifs/ujTVMASREzuRbH6zy5 |
| /u/Nervous_Pokke Lol me too.. like okie if you say so |
| /u/movzx macOS has this feature built in. You just have to open the terminal and run caffeinate |
| /u/blue-coin sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1 |
| /u/anothergaijin I love Mac app names |
| /u/suentendo And the reason for its name is logical: the first app of that type was appropriately named Caffeine. Which started lagging behind. So how you name a supercharged Caffeine app? Well of course. |
| /u/PanGoliath Next step Meth, then Bath Salt |
| /u/UnrelentingStupidity Amph is ultimately not advisable because MacBooks are designed to dissipate heat opened. At least, don't do it when it's in a backpack sleeve or left in a hot car. |
| /u/SpicyElixer Worst case it will throttle or shutdown. Especially with an m-series chip. |
| /u/00wolfer00 Can't you just change the settings so that closing the lid doesn't change it to sleep mode? |
| /u/heaving_in_my_vines Oh, what wonders this guy who doesn't even know basic computer settings must be cooking up with Claude. |
| /u/gthing But most importantly, you don't need to have your laptop with you. |
| /u/AJohnnyTruant Remote control still needs the host process on your computer to run |
| /u/GreekGott It's terrible, it loses sync all the time. It also "freezes"; you send commands and it doesn't reflect on your terminal. I switched to tmux + tailgate. The whole thing feels like an after thought. |
| /u/BodybuilderMany6942 Surely you could just go on the PC settings and make it so closing the lid doesnt put it to sleep or whatever? |
| /u/CanadianTrashInspect Tell me you've never had a corporate laptop without telling me you've never had a corporate laptop. |
| /u/yanmax I heard that joke before, but I always wonder why they just don't change the "Power Options" so that when the lid closes it doesn't do anything. That's been the first thing I change in a new computer since my first laptop. |
| /u/EnzoDeg40 This option only works if the Mac is powered on. If it's not connected to an external battery or a power outlet, it will go to sleep. |
| /u/TheStorMan Seems like terrible design |
| /u/lynivvinyl Isn't that a Macintosh point of pride? Like the underside mouse charging port. |
| /u/lyth Haha! Isn't "that seems like terrible design" one of their taglines? I think it was they used after "think different" and before "1000 songs in your pocket" |
| /u/Obvious_Advice_6879 Why do you think that? For most users, and even engineers pre AI, you'd just end up draining the battery all the time for no reason. Makes a lot more sense to have it default to sleeping for most users and use cases. Also, separately, Macs actually rely on airflow via the keyboard for cooling, so it would get pretty hot if it was doing anything intensive while the lid is shut. |
| /u/Apart-Feature6395 What's wrong with having a choice? |
| /u/TheHowlingHashira This is the shit I'll never understand about Apple fanboys. Y'all act like having fewer choices is some kind of premium feature. I just can't imagine spending a grand on a product and then proudly defending the fact that I can't use it however I want. |
| /u/HelloYesThisIsFemale Because there's a valid usecase and it could just be opt-in |
| /u/shinjidrivekari Because choice... if a user wants their laptop to not go to sleep then it shouldn't |
| /u/Ok-Painter573 You can overwrite that with sudo in terminal |
| /u/EnzoDeg40 Do you really think vibecodders know about sudo? |
| /u/genuine_sandwich This. Amphetamine is a MacOS plugin that prevents your computer from using sleep mode or logging out when you close the lid. I use it for this reason. |
| /u/willargue4karma Lmao is it the follow up to caffeine? Used to use that back in the day |
| /u/yawara25 Instructions unclear, I'm now addicted to meth |
| /u/After-Trifle-1437 I'm gonna out myself as uneducated here, but what's "Claude Code"? |
| /u/Wild-Video-5317 It's like chatgpt, but for programming. |
| /u/OpeningLeopard Can't let their agent go to sleep. |
| /u/M23707 Yep, they are "working" ! 🙌 |
| /u/metabyte9 the agent is probably dizzy as hell watching the floor spin around from that chaotic grip. They are absolutely fighting for their life in that webcam feed right now |
| /u/just-bair You can literally setup your laptop to not go to sleep when closing the lid I'm sure their agents would know how XD |
| /u/qinshihuang_420 https://preview.redd.it/c8k79ksj4x6h1.jpeg?width=680&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acff413041b040f40b5cbee9a3cfeb2256e 9f805 |
| /u/AkronOhAnon And that is why invaluable tools like this exist ​ https://preview.redd.it/7pj6mx6z8x6h1.jpeg?width=1170&f ormat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31cfa65cafb196ea2bb5631ab822d90ea e34eaa4 |
| /u/AkronOhAnon PLA, probably. Though it does say to use PETG. |
| /u/ifeelkindaYeeee All y'all in here and not one "Hand of Claude?" Terrible. Everyone take a lap. |
| /u/wordpredict What kills me about this is that whoever setup this server doesn't realize you can put the laptop in clamshell mode. It baffles me when technical people like engineers have no idea how to use a computer. |
| /u/TheThiefMaster Yeah just set "action when lid is closed" from "sleep" to "do nothing". Done. It's been an option as long as laptops have had closure sensors. |
| /u/-Xi_Jinping- It's different on a Mac, but yeah. |
| /u/Fluid_Advice684 It's even easier to set it that way on Mac |
| /u/OnceMoreAndAgain How could it possibly be easier than changing a dropdown from "sleep" to "do nothing" lol. Does the Mac read your mind? |
| /u/hellomistershifty dude so easy on a mac it's just ctrl+option+cmd+P then a four finger downward swipe then enter your root password then click the lock that says 'are you absolutely sure you want to change a thing" then enter your root password again. so obvious idk how everyone doesn't know that |
| /u/Immediate-Tutor8672 It's not. Nothing is easier on a mac, unless you download an app for every pesky fucking simple functionality. Ask apple users how to do something simple that you can on other OSs, and 90% of the time their answer's going to be "there's an app you can download". |
| /u/PM-Mormon-Underwear I have a Mac for work that's hella locked down and this pains me so much. They don't even have a volume mixer by default. |
| /u/TheHowlingHashira For real, I've been forced to use a Mac at my new job and it's so ass. Why is everything some long convoluted keyboard shortcut. Just let me right click and bring up an option menu. Why can't I delete shit by hitting the delete key? |
| /u/starari It's easy when you're used to macos and already know where it is, it's annoying when you're used to windows. I use both and it's not "easier". I tried and after checking "displays" "battery" "general" "desktop & screen saver" "security & privacy" I gave up. |
| /u/JD0x0 *Presses Windows button* *Types "power settings" and presses enter* *Clicks 'best match'* Oh, look I'm where I need to be. |
| /u/NefariousnessFar1247 Somehow Xi Jinping commenting on a thread started by Qin Shi Huang is quite funny to me. |
| /u/TheeseDragonFruit For some reason (possibly unfounded) I don't want the screen to sit on a hot surface for days. So, I prefer not to close it either. |
| /u/passionfruit2378 I was just going to say this lol. |
| /u/ChengliChengbao the unibody aluminum macbook pro lineup exausted hot air upwards, from the gap between the screen hinge closing the lid blocks the exaust and overheats the device https://preview.redd.it/ce68shcrex6h1.png?width=4032&fo rmat=png&auto=webp&s=88635bd5bc0e3a2b13ef9203f3eb779be37 cf0b2 |
| /u/ActualWhiterabbit operating while closed doesn't seem to be a primary use case for a laptop |
| /u/Agitated-Acctant Wtf do I need my laptop open once it's docked, allowing me to use multiple monitors and an actual keyboard? Still a stupid fucking design |
| /u/Deep90 Apple has had a long history of overheating/thermal issue related lawsuits. |
| /u/Vegetable_Bank4981 I'm a solid engineer and a somewhat below average computer user. They're correlated skills only. Being a dumbass actually makes me better at testing though, I catch a lot of stuff the other devs missed because their power user workflows sidestepped the issue. My stupid ass using three versions out of date safari with no ad blocker gets it all. |
| /u/Siks7Ate9 I had a laptop that wouldn't enter sleep mode(weirdest thing was that it was sometimes lol), it would eventually get quite warm when the lid was closed without me realising it. Its also probably just way easier to keep it open and make people aware to not touch or move it and pull out cables. |
| /u/w0rlds They know, and it is probably set to do nothing when the lid closes. Closing the lid reduces cooling capacity. |
| /u/smthomaspatel I would think anybody who knows how to run a server knows how to keep their laptop from going to sleep when you close it. Silly me. |
| /u/Haggisboy Next time Reddit goes down, it's because someone closed the lid. |
| /u/jebarson_j Imagine running a server without knowing that you can configure to not sleep or shut down the machine even when the lid is closed. |
| /u/Siks7Ate9 They are walking outside though, pretty sure for a server you would want stable Internet connection. |
| /u/Wobbly5ausage I do the same thing sometimes but not when walking outside lol only inside when I need to move from one room to another |
| /u/PassivelyAwkward Same. I use a 16" laptop and before I started WFH, this is how I'd carry around my laptop the office. Now I still do this at home. I'd be worried if he was holding it from the monitor half but the keyboard half? Eh? I've never dropped my phone or any electronic device in over two decades. |
| /u/IncurableAdventurer Same. Not often, but when I do I get a sense of guilt because I shouldn't be doing it haha |
| /u/Dangerous-Elk-6362 Slouching from the couch to bed. |
| /u/WinterSector8317 "I was just using it normally and it broke in half!" |
| /u/AndreTheShadow I fix chromebooks in a middle school and I've heard this so many times. |