How do you work from home? (if applicable)
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@atrilahiji Niiice! GG +1 How do you like the triple monitors? what about 2 or 4?
I am currently half at home/office but my best upgrade at home has to be the Husky workbench aka standing desk lol
Not running 4 monitors anymore, went down to 2 but am putting the 3rd back
Also I have moved the rig off the desk - it was originally for gaming and have replaced it with a lil lenovo thinclient as my daily driver. Lastly its not this clean anymore...
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@plusone-nick Triple monitors is good and bad. Good because I have so much screen real-estate and bad because anytime I have to work on a laptop away from home I it just sucks.
Definitely liking that standing desk you have there
Very useful for extended time at the computer.
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@marcusquinn I am unreasonably obsessed with RGB lighting... its a problem...
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@atrilahiji Agree its hard to use less than 2 its not automatic but its still nice. Yeah it does extend time for better or worse
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@plusone-nick I mean for me its weirdly better for focusing. But not cheap and definitely not practical lol.
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@atrilahiji What is the triangular LED on the wall? I've seen various types of those and been wanting to get a few
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@plusone-nick oh those are by Nanoleaf. Specifically the Nanoleaf Shapes Mini Triangles starter kit
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@atrilahiji That's a nice setup - Is that Wallpaper Engine or just a static wallpaper?
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@murgero oh that’s just a static wallpaper from MIBHDs collection. I’m sure it’s from someone else but this is where I found it https://mobile.twitter.com/MKBHD/status/200002096706240512
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@atrilahiji You should consider wallpaper engine
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@murgero I have it actually I just haven’t used it. Guess I’ll give it a shot
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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.
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@girish Talking of fanless - I wonder how long before the AppleTV gets the M1 chip and could be a Raspberry Pii alternative
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@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
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@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
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@plusone-nick https://foundersfloor.com/ . The site is there but the office is closed now.
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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.
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@murgero Oh wow 40 logical cores O_O
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@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
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@atrilahiji said in How do you work from home? (if applicable):
@murgero Oh wow 40 logical cores O_O
look at the RAM too..
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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.
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@d19dotca Nice! My Dog's bed is right by my desk too
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@d19dotca very clean! Also that chair looks incredibly comfortable
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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.
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@nebulon is your office open these days?
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@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.
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@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.
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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.
We're not here for a long time - but we are here for a good time :)
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@marcusquinn Standing desks are amazing
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@murgero Yeah mine is a standing desk too and I love it. Sure I sit most of it, haha, but still stand for a few hours each day while I'm working.
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@marcusquinn i don't see anything wrong - that's more how mine looks now lol
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@plusone-nick thankfully my computer desktop is a lot neater
For interest, the big painting it a Hed Kandi album cover.
Most other things are on my kit.co list: kit.co/marcusquinn
We're not here for a long time - but we are here for a good time :)
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@marcusquinn Now that's a name I haven't heard in a loong time - Hed Kandi. I'm off to YT to see what gems might be there. In the meantime, here's my workstation. Just a 2015 MBPr running Windows, external monitor, nice headphones, handy masks in case I need to mask myself quickly, extra tablets and devices laying around for prototyping. I would like a second external monitor, tried to suggest to my wife that that would be a super Valentine's Day gift, but no luck.
Holy moly, looking up Hed Kandi on YT brought back a surge of memories, with Ministry of Sound being featured on that page, which then reminded me of deephousenetwork.com - 19 years ago I had been traveling to HK a few times a year for a project, and I'd found this internet cafe (going to google maps to look it up...) near Jordan and Nathan, and I'd groove out while working all night. Ah, I miss HK. Haven't been there now in about 7 years, and I fear it won't be like I remember whenever I do get back.
A life lived in fear is a life half-lived
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@scooke I find good use of Mission Control, App Tamer for auto-hide and 3008*1692 resolution on 4k gets me all the advantages of multiple monitors on a single screen. More room for speakers too
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Updated it:
I moved my Ryzen 1700X to my server and got a Ryzen 3600 for my desktop. Turns out my server case only fits mATX... So I moved my server to my old case and got a new one because I needed an excuse for more RGB.
Only frustration: I cant have my case on my desk without putting one monitor in portrait.
On the note of my server, it is so satifying to see idle usage with 3 minecraft servers and client stuff go from 33% to 1%...
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If I work from home, it looks like this. Normally I do smart home things at my workplace
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@luckow
I gotta get my hands on some test equipment for electronics projects I want to work on. Nice! 
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Not a fan of WFH. Very likely to just lie on the couch.lol
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@marcusquinn looking at this old post and noticed you have some KRK's
was recently gifted a pair of ROKIT 5's White
How do you like those!?!
Was rocking these bad boi's for too long before this
lol they are ass...
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@plusone-nick Oooo, very nice! One day these will be mine
And very happy with these for my mobile office:
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@marcusquinn The KRK's are really nice! like 4-5x better than the lil M-Audios I had lol
I think you posted the same link twice!
But DAMN! those puppies look crazy!! $9k!?
lol sheesh✌💙+1
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