Ask HN: Car Drive Productivity
How Can you boost productivity on your computer when your traveling with a computer without wifi on the backseat of a car?
Are there any tools or guides for that?
Are there any tools or guides for that?
That's also a tip I give to people to speed things up when they're home or at the office: disconnect from the internet, unplug from the charger, race to deliver a feature purely on battery.
You won't be distracted by going into a rabbit hole of docs and browser tabs. You won't bother with premature optimisation and searching the internet for a better or the best way to do it. You just implement the first version of the deliverable with what you have, and then improve it.
It also shows you what documents you really need. You'll want to have access to the docs offline for example. You don't have them? Next time.
I had a project where some parts couldn't work without internet and working without internet pushed me to improve the code and make it more testable (dependency injection, mocks and stubs, etc)
Is your job moderating a big forum? Then no, you can't really bost anything.
Is your job writing about various topics? If this requires documentation, with a bit preparation before hand, sure, you can be super productive.
Is your job coding? Offline manuals will get you a long way (assuming you don't depend very much on 3rd parties like APIs or package managers).
Now, if we exclude the 1st point, yes, you can, here is how:
1. Get a good pair of headphones. Not necessary with active noise cancelling, but ones that do a good isolation of environment.
2. Download all the tools you will need: manuals, documentations, libraries and whatnot. (back in the day there were lots of site downloaders like httptrack)
3. Download some sounds. Be it music, white noise or whatever suits you.
4. Start doing stuff.
Hint: if this is one-time, long trip, you could use that time to read a book to elevate your skills ;)
When I've needed to, I've often just tethered to my phone's internet. You can charge the laptop with an inverter that plugs into your cigarette lighter, but check the maximum wattage first so you don't blow a fuse.
These days you can also get those big portable battery packs from GoZero and Nomad, etc., along with Starlink for RV for when you pull over somewhere for a few hours.
Covid caused a huge surge in remote work, so there are a lot of articles on this stuff now...