How do you work from home? (if applicable)

[murgero]

@atrilahiji You should consider wallpaper engine

[A Former User]

@murgero I have it actually I just haven’t used it. Guess I’ll give it a shot

[girish]

You two have set two high a bar for the rest of us :)! My desk is a dumping ground for my son's stuff, I tried to clean it up a bit for my photo but usually it's not even this clean

But the most important things for me are:

• I moved my desk to be near the balcony. I love looking outside frequently. There's this tree outside with a lot of squirrels. They are all hyper active like hammy in Over the hedge.
• I moved it also near the heater hee hee. We don't have central heating, so nice to keep the feet warm!
• I took a step backward and switched from Wayland to X. My dual monitor setup is now more stable. Also upgraded Ubuntu 20 a month or so ago.
• That machine behind the laptop is my main Cloudron. I really appreciate how noiseless it is (thinkcenter).
• The same cannot be said about the black tower below. It is a source of noise, a power hog and extra house heating It wasn't a problem before the pandemic but these days it's on all the time.. Atleast, I don't work on C++ stuff anymore! No more long compiles.. While it compiles super fast, it's also very power hungry and the fan is noisy. Which reminds me that I probably need to clean the fan, it's become more prone to dust clog after I moved near the balcony.
• Ultimately, I cannot wait to get back to my co-working space! Sadly, they shutdown because of the pandemic, so I have to find a new one when things get back to normal.

[marcusquinn]

@girish Talking of fanless - I wonder how long before the AppleTV gets the M1 chip and could be a Raspberry Pii alternative

[A Former User]

@girish Nice! Thats still a really clean setup. Simple and to the point

And the balcony view is definitely a nice bonus. I'm in the basement. Also doesn't help that its below -40C right now lol

[plusone-nick]

@girish my memory is spotty - what coworking space was that again? they had one on E Santa Clara in SJ right? I recall seeing you guys on their site when I first found out about Cloudron

[girish]

@plusone-nick https://foundersfloor.com/ . The site is there but the office is closed now.

[murgero]

I don't wanna take a picture cause my desk is filthy but -

• Single Monitor (1080p)
• Dell Precision T7610
• 128GB RAM
• Dual-CPU (2x Intel Xeon E5-2670's @ 10 cores each with Hyperthreading for a total of 40 logical cores)
• 4TB SSD in two separate RAID configurations
• And because I'm wild and like gaming I have put an RX 580 Series Radeon card in this server cause why not!

Yes, this is server, enterprise hardware, no it is NOT being used as such. I use it for heavy gaming and as my personal computer.

[A Former User]

@murgero Oh wow 40 logical cores O_O

[murgero]

@atrilahiji haha yeah! It used to be a server for my fathers old company. Now it's my personal computer. Gaming, VM's, programming.

I have 3 VMs running on it right now (vpn, macOS, and a Linux VM) and it plays cod all at the same time with plenty of resource to spare LMAO

[robi]

@atrilahiji said in How do you work from home? (if applicable):

@murgero Oh wow 40 logical cores O_O

look at the RAM too..

[d19dotca]

Great topic! It's always fun to peek into people's offices. haha. Here's my home office setup for the moment. Been changing it slowly over the past year. Recently got a new chair I find much more comfortable than my previous one. haha.

[marcusquinn]

@d19dotca Nice! My Dog's bed is right by my desk too

[A Former User]

@d19dotca very clean! Also that chair looks incredibly comfortable

[nebulon]

Very different setups everyone. Mine is rather simplistic in this regard I guess, don't even have a desktop PC, only the Cloudron server attached to the router and laptop and no fancy office chair. Well that is homeoffice, I have a good one in the office.

[girish]

@nebulon is your office open these days?

[nebulon]

@girish it would be open, but generally everyone possible should work from home, so I don't want to make an exception for myself since I can work from home.

[A Former User]

@nebulon simple but clean and distraction free. I do like the idea of using a laptop. You’ve got the same environment at home and when you’re out.

[marcusquinn]

Might have to delete this one later then

Spot the dog

At first with the standing desk it was hard work for more than an hour.

Now I stand all day and most of the evening and it feels weird sitting to work. Much better for the brain work too as a your lung capacity is higher when standing for oxygen needs.

It's 2m wide by 1m deep - I already think I need another one for all the stuff to play with and make it a proper home-studio for music, video etc.

[murgero]

@marcusquinn Standing desks are amazing