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Not at all my experience. Interruptions when designing is, to me, almost free. It's a completely different mental process at work compared to programming. One which does not need much wind-up time at all.

I wouldn't say creative work and "create new things that don't exist yet" is what's defining for expensive interruptions. Rather, whether you need to keep a lot of stuff in mental cache or not. That is not true for a large subset of design work.

Edit: My personal experience is that interruptions during design work is, in contrast, almost welcome. Once you come back to your designs after an interruption you often see things in a new light and catch stuff you previously didn't see.

What if the causal relationship was reversed? Perhaps the success wasn't there in those areas due to a previously established philosophy concerning privacy.

Grasping and purely conjecture obviously, just putting it out there.

That's true and a fair point.

Although I imagine many aspects to be the same for many general needs (while clearly not for very specific needs). Ideally, those which aren't (such as, perhaps, the monitor) for said general needs could offer multiple choices.

I wanted to be inclusive by saying "productivity" since at this point I'd be open for literally anything that is purposely designed with those general goals in mind — whatever the professional pursuit. It may still be superior for my specific needs compared to all the bells and whistles I keep seeing.

Yes!

My most recent search for any developments in e-ink laptops was literally yesterday. My understanding is that current e-ink screens are not technically limited to low refresh rates, but are artificially limited to save power. (I think someone hacked their e-reader to run linux at fairly high refresh rates?)

Regarding dumb terminal, if your situation allows you to I feel this is currently one of the better options available. One problems is you still need to browse the web locally and graphically and use various tools not available using emacs and/or the command line. And when internet connectivity is not available.

To what extent will GDPR require them to include the information they have to serve and target you ads? Does anyone even know yet?

The lack of this feature probably accounts for half my !g searches – happy to hear it's on its way!

DuckDuckGo is a beacon of hope – thank you.

I'll see what I can dig up, thank you.

Is there a difference between 'drill-mount' and 'rimless'? These fulfill some of the criteria, but I fail to find such with a nice, large, preferably cup-shaped, lens.

Large lenses ("pilot" glasses) are usually not especially curved, I believe that is suboptimal and mostly done for looks for historical reasons. (At some point, an optician told me that was the case and that the optimal shape would be spherical to optimize distance from the eye.)

In my head, I can easily imagine a model combining all of the above (except, perhaps, weight and a very large lens). Which criteria do think are incompatible?