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Workspace Wednesday: Show me pics of your at-home setup

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

Rocking this setup during self quarantine!

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Stephen Belovarich

Feelin blue and red this morning!

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Ben Halpern

Looks like sci-fi ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

I usually keep it to cool colors, but sometimes I surprise people with a red light that floods the room. Over Zoom Iโ€™ve gotten responses like โ€œred alert!โ€, โ€œSteveโ€™s at a rave!โ€ or โ€œoh no, is something wrong?โ€ ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Ben Halpern

Epic!

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jamescalviniv

This is how Drakes desk would look if he was a programmer!

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Andy Huynh

I love the dedicated Spotify monitor.

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Stephen Belovarich

I โค๏ธ indie rock so always got the tunes going! There is a Sonos in the room too for when I want to dance with myself.

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Jen Chan

Woah are those backlight LEDs?

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

Yeah itโ€™s just a cheap LED strip I purchased on Amazon I can control with a remote.

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Jen Chan

I forget that other humans put more effort into arranging their workspace. I can't do anything with physical electronics or woodwork :frown:

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Ben Sinclair

You don't have to do anything with kits like these. They're usually self-adhesive so you stick them to whatever and away you go. I've got a 2m lightstrip in my kitchen (and some others) and I ran it along the edge of my cupboards by peeling off the tape and pressing it into place. Low-effort, high-reward - give it a go?

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Charles

Nice setup. How do you get this working when your laptop has just one HDMI port?

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

The external GPU in the top right. While it doesnโ€™t provide all the extensibility of a Thunderbolt 3 Dock, it does allow me to upgrade the GPU over time and boost GPU acceleration in apps I depend on like VSCode. Both monitors are connected to the eGPU, then 1 Thunderbolt 3 cable goes to the MBP, which charges the MBP as well. At first there were issues with disconnecting the eGPU in Mohave but those issues have since been corrected by Apple.

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Charles

That's alot to absorb... Thanks!

I'm on a Windows Lenovo laptop with just one HDMI port ... I will need to find a simpler solution.

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Drew Bragg

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Ben Halpern

Live the rubber ducks ๐Ÿ˜„

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Drew Bragg • Edited

๐Ÿ˜‚ they even have little capes so I know which one to talk when I'm debugging

Ducks

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Peyton McGinnis

That's gotta be the best thing I've ever seen.

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad

they're from devrant if i'm right

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Drew Bragg

Correct!

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Thomas Bnt

Awesome ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Dimitrios Desyllas

Is that an ergohuman chair? I have one since 2016 and is awesome!

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Drew Bragg

It's an Autonomous ErgoChair 2 ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿป

I'm a fan, especially for the price. Not as awesome as the $900 chairs we have back at the office but about a million times better than the old staples one I had.

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Benjamin Funk • Edited

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The chair is old and a little bit worn :P

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Thomas Bnt

Soft ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿฝ

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Dmitry Shvetsov

Wow! Neat and cozy. Very Nice!

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Ben Halpern

This looks really pleasant

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Andy Huynh

Feels creative.

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Allan MacGregor ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ • Edited

Had no issues going into self-quarantine:P

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Jesse M. Holmes

Taking a different approach to the multi monitor setup. This is the corner of a room we use for musical instruments, toy storage, reading, and backyard bird-watching. My actual desk is downstairs in the family room.

A 43-inch monitor sitting on a 47-inch standing desk

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Ben Halpern

Pink theme ๐Ÿ’“

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Andy Huynh

Huge fan of pink theme.

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Jesse M. Holmes

I've never loved a pink theme the way I love this one.

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Conlin Durbin

Just got a new desk yesterday! Here is my setup!

Slowly trying to add better gear to my setup - I really want to switch to a more pastel color palette!

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Nick Young

My Setup

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Naomi

So many screens ๐Ÿ˜ฏ
Love the white board too ! That's a good idea

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Ben Sinclair

I haven't tidied this or posed anything for the photo so it's not exactly neat.
It's a cordoned-off section of about a quarter to a third of my living room, with the only window at the opposite end.

My home office, with a dining chair, wooden table, two monitors attached to a Windows PC, and a Macbook

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Thomas Bnt

Look nice but desk too little small? :p

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Ben Sinclair

Well it's a reasonable size for most things. I could fit 2x24" monitors on there (I have 1x24" and 1x22" though). Really there's plenty of room for everything I need, and I don't use the laptop for much. I use barriers to drive it with my keyboard and mouse when I do need to do anything but it just sits there being a server most of the time.

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Ken Simeon

Home Workspace
Only thing that has change is that i have a wired mouse now.

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Ben Halpern

Love the background

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Ken Simeon • Edited

Here you go. And a link to the full size image imgur.com/a/2yeWr3H

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Naomi • Edited

Better than what I have at work !
My desk