You should check out “The Magicians”. I won’t spoil it (though I guess even recommending it in this thread kind of does) but it does NOT follow this trope. At least mostly…

Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

I’m doing my best to not let my life be like the song, but that’s tough…

If energy drinks and tea weren’t a thing then yeah… but they are so I’m guessing not really. Then again if coffee were the only caffeine option I probably wouldn’t have a caffeine addiction…

My thought was more that one side of the mini laptop has a keyboard and the other a track pad. You kind of need to be able to use both at once and the screen is typically at one end, not in the center. It sitting on a keyboard is weird but also works for showing the scale so looks cool.

This looks so cool, but the ai was so very confused about how laptops work…