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Tried coworking at a beach cafe in Thailand and it was a total disaster
I thought working from a beachfront spot in Koh Samui would be paradise, but the WiFi was useless. It cut out every 10 minutes, and I lost an entire project file because the cloud sync failed. The sun glare made my laptop screen completely unreadable by 11am, and sand got stuck in my keyboard too. A guy next to me was playing loud music from his phone, and there was no place to plug in my charger. I spent more time fixing tech issues than actually working that day. I learned that looking scenic doesn't mean functional for digital nomads. Has anyone else had a bad experience working from a too perfect looking spot?
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wright.lisa9d ago
Respectfully, that sounds like poor planning not a bad location.
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the_hayden9d ago
Man, that's like when people buy a juicer thinking it'll magically make them drink kale smoothies every day but it just sits in the back of the cabinet gathering mold. We all get so caught up in the dream of a place or thing that we ignore the actual daily reality of using it. That beach wifi horror story is just another example of how we let a perfect picture on Instagram trick us into forgetting that basic stuff like a stable connection actually matters more.
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