So this shall be my office for the next while.

"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
03/15/2020 at 18:26 • Filed to: covid-19

Damn Macs and all their dongles. So much cable clutter on my desk as result. Had to bring my mechanical back home because the one I have doesn’t support Apple’s stupid USB filter so it keeps skipping keys. And I lost a keycap in transit.

DISCUSSION (14)

Captain of the Enterprise > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/15/2020 at 18:46

Do you not normally use Macs? Also this is my workstation for class at home.

Kinja'd!!!

WilliamsSW > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/15/2020 at 18:46

Dual monitors- one for email and one for Oppo!

404 - User No Longer Available > Captain of the Enterprise
03/15/2020 at 19:16

Nope... my daily driver at home is my newly built Ryzen 3700X with 8 cores and 16 threads for the fraction of what Apple charges for similar horsepower . The MacBook Pro was given by work and I hate the damn thing. It’s brand new and already it failed to boot a few times after updates , and that lousy keyboard.

And quite frankly for my line of work a PC with Linux or Windows + WSL and Visual Studio Code works better.

404 - User No Longer Available > WilliamsSW
03/15/2020 at 19:18

Love these monitors. Got them used from a liquidator for cheap (200 for both, shipped) and they are 16:10 too.

lone_liberal > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/15/2020 at 19:20

I’ve even had issues with an iMac not seeing the keyboard that came with it. I had to drop ship a Logitech one to the user. On my work from home days I go from a Dell workstation with two 27” monitors to a docked HP laptop with two 24s. Not ideal but I can remote in to my work unit if necessary.

404 - User No Longer Available > lone_liberal
03/15/2020 at 19:26

I actually work out of a vendor’s office since we have a project going on with them. Had to hunt down the only 1920x1200 24" monitor around , otherwise I would be stuck with a 27" 1920x1080 ** pukes** .

lone_liberal > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/15/2020 at 19:28

What I really miss when I work from home is my sweet ergo office chair. The one I have at home doesn’t even compare.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/15/2020 at 19:54

I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one to prefer 1920 x 1200. I have a few 27s, but the lower resolution drives me buggy. I also keep a few 1200 x 1600 monitors around for reading full pages, rotated into portrait mode, of course.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/15/2020 at 20:43

I’m part of a skeleton crew at work starting tomorrow. I’m one of 3 people in my department unable to work from home (100% of what I am doing right now requires the lab space at work). It’s going to be interesting with such a quiet office.

404 - User No Longer Available > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
03/15/2020 at 22:47

It was already like that for us the past Friday.

Most of the people from my own office were banned from coming in to the satellite vendor office I was working out of, since there was a case in that building. This was right before there was an official notice corporate-wide to tell us to work from ho me. We counted less than 10 people that day.

404 - User No Longer Available > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
03/15/2020 at 22:56

The aspect was definitely a gripe, but for those monitors it was the density. 1080p on 27" was plain gross. For that size I accept no less than 2560x1600.

for Michigan > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/15/2020 at 22:57

Hey man, I'm working on a 23" 1400x900 right now. And that's my big monitor.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/15/2020 at 23:01

That would be a nice resolution, but it might be a little while before I have anything like that. I think the most expensive monitor I have I purchased for $30, with most of them in the $5-10 range...

404 - User No Longer Available > for Michigan
03/16/2020 at 00:00

Actually I’ve been working with dual 19" 1440x900 for quite some time before. At least it’s still 16:10.