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I have a feeling a lot of folks who flit between multiple devices are staying occupied to avoid doing difficult or onerous work.

That's an interesting connection you've drawn between switching audio sources and malingering work.

On the flip side, a mere anecdote of where this kind of flipping was actually beneficial, if you will?

It came in the form of being on a zoom call on the Macbook (which I have in a dock and connected to a pair of displays) with a single airpod in, hearing the kid having a kid moment, and being able to just reach over, open up my ipad, join the call and immediately have audio switched so I could walk down stairs to help buckaroo with a chore, walk back upstairs, put the ipad away and switch back to the Macbook was kind of...well awesome.

No one on the call had a clue.

(also comes in handy when I want to switch from work macbook to personal macbook after hours, or vice versa, if I'm on personal macbook after hours and get paged and need to jump on a slack call. Definitely not avoiding onerous or difficult work there either)



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