Ask HN: What does your battle station look like?
It’s fine to describe it, pictures if you are willing.
Here's what I have:
- Standing desk
- Two 24" monitors, each on single Humanscale monitor arms (bought used on eBay, at a significant discount). I switched from dual arms to single because the latter means that I can move one monitor without affecting the other.
- Tenkeyless mechanical keyboard (MX silent red switches)
- 60% mech keyboard (MX brown switches)
- Vertical Logitech mouse on a mousepad (that looks like a mini carpet)
- Work laptop
- Microphone on a Rode arm (bought used on eBay) that's fixed onto a wall shelf
- Custom-built PC in an ATX Mid Tower
- HDMI switch that lets me use my main monitor with my work laptop and my PC
- USB switch that lets me do the same with my keyboard and mouse
- A collection of mechanical pencils in a ceramic sugar skull
- Work issued thinkpad
- 2 24” monitors on VESA mount arms
- keychron k2v2 mechanical keyboard
- Herman miller Aeron chair
- personal m1 MacBook Pro 14”
- personal iPad mini 6th gen and Apple Pencil ( I just got this so I’m excited to use it for work and personal stuff)
- notebook for bullet journaling
- noise cancelling headphones
What battle station? Real hackers have a sticker festooned laptop with the keys falling off that SSHs into something decent, hopefully with permission ;-)
(My “battle station” is a hipster coffee shop where they know not to ask questions about what I’m doing on the wifi or why I sometimes dart off suddenly.)
A dozen year old PC with ECC ram and a low-performance video card.
It would make sense to replace it with something that uses less electricity, but the requirement for ECC ram limits the options.
Anyone is using ultrawide 5K monitor with Ubuntu 22.04 / Wayland?
There are conflicting reports on the forums wether it works properly or not …
Just a Thinkpad T470s and a Ferris Sweep keyboard.