WFH is indeed advertised as pro environment. It just isn’t taking off very well for many.
Change is hard and re-thinking work as an entirely online activity requires a lot of change.
For some, their jobs which were fun before the pandemic now just suck because they don’t get to meet people face to face.
Some dread the long boring days WFH and spending time in back-to-back Zoom meetings where 90% of those attending have their camera off and do something else.
Some are frustrated because their coworkers are slacking off WFH. Others are frustrated because their productivity at home is a disaster.
But there is also a pro-environment factor of working in an office: In countries where buildings need heating, heating one office compound is more efficient than heating a hundred homes at the same time.
I made the switch from Linux to KDE a few years back. It takes a while to learn all the new keyboard shortcuts—in fact most of the missing bits quoted in the article are present, just not where/how you were used to them in KDE.
What really sold me on MacOS though was multi-finger touchpad gestures, like three-finger drag and four finger desktop switch. It's difficult or even impossible to get that on Linux (at least it was a couple years back when I last tried).
Then there are other small things like the consistent availability of emacs-like keybindings. I'm using Ctrl-t to exchange ('transpose') two adjacent characters all the time to fix typos in-place. Under Linux this is very much hit-and-miss and depends on the app toolkit.
Bottomline: one you're used to MacOS it's not worse than KDE (which is still great BTW).
Possible scenario: OP has gone abroad for their current job and is now returning to the country where they grew up and is familiar with all the rules, perhaps even friends back from school who became accountants, attorneys, etc.'
This is precisely their point. Reading the usual Arxiv-PDF on a phone is a pain, even if you just want to glance at some key parts of the text. Their version is much, much better. It's self-promotion by the Authorea team on the platform they are competing with (ArXiv), but they have a point.
> Get ADHD meds. Appetite suppression is an effect. :P
This is a dangerous joke, since people will tend to take it seriously. Some of the other comments here did. ADHD meds will not solve the problem underlying weight gain. In fact, someone I know gained tons of weight since he is on ADHD medication.
Swapping fizzy drinks and juices with water can easily save 500 kcal a day, which can tip the balance from net caloric surplus to net caloric deficit, that is, from weight gain to weight loss. 10/10 can recommend.
1) Make yourself familiar with the energy contents of foods you usually eat.
2) Identify 500 kcal that you can cut out of your daily diet by eliminating the highest energy items or eating less of them.
3) Lose about 2 kg each month.
By reducing your caloric intake by 500kcal a day you save about 15,000 kcal a month. That is equivalent to 1.7 kg fat (assuming 9kcal per gram fat). Since there is also some energy lost in conversion of food to bodyfat the weight loss will be slightly higher than that.
500 kcal can often be saved by simple measures like swapping fizzy drinks with water. Another big saver is to not have second helpings (or renounce the third helping if you tend to have it).
Awareness of the caloric content of the foods you eat will enable you to control your intake much better. And reducing intake is the key to losing weight.
Change is hard and re-thinking work as an entirely online activity requires a lot of change.
For some, their jobs which were fun before the pandemic now just suck because they don’t get to meet people face to face.
Some dread the long boring days WFH and spending time in back-to-back Zoom meetings where 90% of those attending have their camera off and do something else.
Some are frustrated because their coworkers are slacking off WFH. Others are frustrated because their productivity at home is a disaster.
But there is also a pro-environment factor of working in an office: In countries where buildings need heating, heating one office compound is more efficient than heating a hundred homes at the same time.