[Avodah] Al petach beito mibachutz

[Zev Sero]

It's a reasonably not-cold evening in Brooklyn, so I'm sitting al
petach beiti mibachutz, watching my menorah burn (and not be stolen...),
and enjoying the wonders of WiFi.  I understand that in EY that is the
way people do it (al petach beito, not necessarily laptop-in-lap).
Is there a good reason why I've never heard of anyone in chu"l doing
it that way, even where the weather permits it?

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Zev Sero               Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
zev at sero.name          interpretation of the Constitution.
                       	                          - Clarence Thomas