Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Like, what a guy.
Exactly. Yeah. Actually, he probably is.
Yeah. So maybe learning a framework is a very bad idea for us, you know?
Yeah. Maybe you learn concepts, but you don't actually have to start using it for your life, right? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I switched to Mac in 2014 because it was because when I wanted to start traveling and my brother was like, dude, get a MacBook. It's like the standard now. I'm like, wow, I need to switch from Windows. And I had like three screens, you know, like Windows. I had this whole setup for music production. I had to sell everything. And then I had a MacBook.
And I remember opening up this MacBook box like, uh... And it was so beautiful. It was like this aluminum. And then I opened it. I removed the screen protector thing. It's so beautiful. And I didn't touch it for three days. I was just like looking at it, really. And I was still on the Windows computer. And then I went traveling with that.
And all my great things started when I switched to Mac, which sounds very dogmatic, right? What great things are you talking about? All the business started working out. I started traveling. I started building startups. I started making money. It all started when I switched to Mac.
I think the Finder is horrible, Mac. The what is horrible? The Finder. Oh, you don't know the Finder? So there's the Windows Explorer? Yeah.
Finder is strange, man. There's strange things. There's this bug where if you attach a photo on WhatsApp or Telegram, It just selects the whole folder and you almost accidentally can click enter and you send all your photos, all your files to this chat group. Happened to my girlfriend. She starts sending me photo, photo, photo, photo, photo. So Finder is very unusual, but it has Linux.
Like the whole thing is like it's Unix based, right?
Yeah, all the time. Like all the time. And the cool thing is you can run, I think it's like Unix, like Debian or whatever. You can run most Linux stuff on macOS, which makes it very good for development. Like I have my Nginx server. If I'm not lazy and set up my staging on my laptop, it's just the Nginx server, the same as I have on my cloud server, right? The same where the websites run.
And I can use almost everything, the same config files, configuration files. Okay. And it just works. And that makes Mac a very good platform for Linux stuff, I think. Yeah, yeah. Real Ubuntu is better, of course.
I think it's just about the hardware. It's not so much about the software. The hardware is so well built, right? The keyboard.
That is pretty cool.
No, any couch, like hotel couch also, like in the room, right? But I used to work like very ergonomically with like a standing desk and everything like perfect, like eye height, screen, blah, blah, blah. And I felt like, Man, this has to do with lifting too. I started getting RSI, like repetitive strain injury, like tingling stuff. And it would go all the way on my back.
And I was sitting in a coworker space, like 6 a.m., sun comes up, and I'm working and I'm coding. And I hear like a sound or something. So I do like, I look left and my neck gets stuck, like, and I'm like, wow, fuck. And, um... I'm like, what am I dying? You know? And I thought I'm probably dying. So I don't want to die in a cowork space. I'm going to go home and die in like peace and honor.
So I closed my laptop and I put it in my backpack and I walked to the, to the street. I got on my motorbike, went home. And I lied down on like a pillow, like with my legs up and stuff. to get rid of this, like, because it was my whole back. And it was because I was working like this all the time. So I started getting like a laptop stand, everything ergonomically correct.
But then I started lifting. And since then, like, it seems like everything gets straightened out. Your posture kind of, you're more straight. And I'd never have RSI anymore, reproductive injury. I never have tingling anymore, no pains and stuff. So then I started working on the sofa. And it's great. Like, it feels, you're close to the, I sit like this.
Legs together and then a pillow and then a laptop. And then I work. Are you like leaning back? I'm kind of like. Together, like legs and then- Where's the mouse? No, so everything's trackpad on the Mac OS, on the MacBook. I used to have the Logitech MX mouse, the perfect economic mouse.
One screen. And I used to have three screens. So I come from the, I know where people come from. I had all this stuff. But then I realized that having it all condensed in one laptop, it's a 16-inch MacBook, so it's quite big. But having it all in there is amazing because you're so close to the tools. You're so close to what's happening, you know? It's like working on a car or something.
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