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Ask HN: What does your battle station look like?

6 points by jesuscript 4y ago

It’s fine to describe it, pictures if you are willing.

controversial97 4y ago
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.
a_bored_husky 4y ago
Just a Thinkpad T470s and a Ferris Sweep keyboard.
BlameKaneda 4y ago
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
kingkongjaffa 4y ago
- 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
greggarious 4y ago
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.)
- jesuscript 4y ago
  Public workspace, too antisocial for that, if we’re talking “real” hackers :p
  - greggarious 4y ago
    You'd be amazed what folks coming to Pittsburgh to gentrify it say in public spaces :-P It's like they don't grok some of us were born here. (I thought the new trend is coworking paired with loud coffee shop conversations? ;))
chad_strategic 4y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Workspaces/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Workspaces/ https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/ https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/
- jesuscript 4y ago
  I know those exist, but I wanted to see what HN users are rocking.
nivertech 4y ago
Anyone is using ultrawide 5K monitor with Ubuntu 22.04 / Wayland? There are conflicting reports on the forums wether it works properly or not …

6 points by jesuscript 4y ago

It’s fine to describe it, pictures if you are willing.

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.

a_bored_husky 4y ago

Just a Thinkpad T470s and a Ferris Sweep keyboard.

BlameKaneda 4y ago

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

kingkongjaffa 4y ago

- 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

greggarious 4y ago

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.)

jesuscript 4y ago
Public workspace, too antisocial for that, if we’re talking “real” hackers :p
- greggarious 4y ago
  You'd be amazed what folks coming to Pittsburgh to gentrify it say in public spaces :-P It's like they don't grok some of us were born here. (I thought the new trend is coworking paired with loud coffee shop conversations? ;))

chad_strategic 4y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Workspaces/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Workspaces/ https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/ https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/

jesuscript 4y ago
I know those exist, but I wanted to see what HN users are rocking.

nivertech 4y ago

Anyone is using ultrawide 5K monitor with Ubuntu 22.04 / Wayland? There are conflicting reports on the forums wether it works properly or not …