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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

Rocking this setup during self quarantine!

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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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jamescalviniv

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

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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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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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Ben Halpern

Epic!

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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.