I fully concur:

Much as I am glad to not be turned into a human icicle, the missing drumbeat of home-walk-work-walk-home has been a difficult adaptation. To make matters more monotonous, I am working from the same home office every day because my computer with all of my work stuff is an iMac and it is difficult to drag around. So it doesn’t matter what I am doing — writing email, meeting colleagues, having a quick chat — it all happens in exactly the same place staring at exactly the same screen sitting in exactly the same chair rolling around on exactly the same rug. The rug is a new addition for this year, actually; I thought it would help make my work space feel different and separate. It felt that way for only about a week.

Having ditched my 10-year old MacBook Pro for a spanky Linux laptop, I somewhat concur. I could have done what he says here -- but I wanted a little more luxury. But no more Macs and Windows machines around here.

In 2017, somewhere between getting my office and my website off-the-grid, I decided not to buy any more new laptops. Instead, I switched to a 2006 second-hand machine that I purchased online for 50 euros and which does everything that I want and need. Including a new battery and a simple hardware upgrade, I invested less than 150 euros.

If my 2006 laptop lasts as long as my other machines – if it runs for another 1.7 years – it will have cost me only 26 euros per year. That’s more than 10 times less than the cost of my previous laptops. In this article, I explain my motivation for not buying any more new laptops, and how you could do the same.

Yes, there is indeed a wealth of literature there, waiting. I only recently found out about Bruno Schultz. What a story; what a writer.

In the spring of 1972, fascinated by the life and work of Franz Kafka, Philip Roth decided to visit Prague. He returned the following year to see how writers were managing to work under “conditions that were utterly alien to my own writing experience.” In preparation, he read as much as he could find of the work of contemporary Czech writers. He met and became friends with several writers, which led him to look for works in English translation by novelists working throughout Eastern Europe — still behind the Iron Curtain — since the end of World War Two.