Share your HOME WORKING workstation environment - pics
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techguyone said:
There should be a 'posed desktop' and a 'real life' desktop showing how it really looks when it's in use.
This is mine for about 51 weeks of the year.
The other week it is all taken off, everything given a clean (the gaming PC has quarterly dusting session)...and it stays that way until I need to work on something.
techguyone said:
There should be a 'posed desktop' and a 'real life' desktop showing how it really looks when it's in use.
Mine looks as per my pictures 99% of the time. I have a workshop next door to dump all the crap in. That said, it's currently covered in cables and other detritus as I dismantled my PC for a simple rebuild that's now escalated into refinishing case panels in satin aluminium.
My set-up - boring compared to most!
Ebay used Oak Desk. I like it, solid bespoke made. Cost me £150
Portrait monitor, good for MS teams
Jabra speaker also good for teams calls. Sounds Ok, mute etc on the speaker is reflected in teams. Also works on bluetooth so can conference from the garden..
ipad for SkyQ etc
James6112 said:
My set-up - boring compared to most!
Ebay used Oak Desk. I like it, solid bespoke made. Cost me £150
Portrait monitor, good for MS teams
Jabra speaker also good for teams calls. Sounds Ok, mute etc on the speaker is reflected in teams. Also works on bluetooth so can conference from the garden..
ipad for SkyQ etc
Harpoon said:
What's the little display showing the weather? I've looked into having a small calendar display on my desk to show the next couple of meetings (pulled from O365) but I was struggling to find a sensibly priced but good looking small display which could hook up to a Pi.
Why a PI? Sounds like a google (nest) home hub might do the trick?If a PI, find any sort of display that hooks up to it and have someone print you a mount/box to house them both? I know plenty of people with a 3D printer who love little projects like that and do it for little more than the cost of material.
ZesPak said:
Why a PI? Sounds like a google (nest) home hub might do the trick?
If a PI, find any sort of display that hooks up to it and have someone print you a mount/box to house them both? I know plenty of people with a 3D printer who love little projects like that and do it for little more than the cost of material.
I must admit I don't know exactly what a Nest Home Hub could do - will go & have a look - thanks. If a PI, find any sort of display that hooks up to it and have someone print you a mount/box to house them both? I know plenty of people with a 3D printer who love little projects like that and do it for little more than the cost of material.
I'd thought about using a Pi as I could knock something up in Python or use Dakboard.
I'd seen this display but wasn't sure I could justify spending £120 on it!
https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-scre...
Harpoon said:
What's the little display showing the weather? I've looked into having a small calendar display on my desk to show the next couple of meetings (pulled from O365) but I was struggling to find a sensibly priced but good looking small display which could hook up to a Pi.
Looks like an Amazon Echo ShowCarbon Sasquatch said:
Looks like an Amazon Echo Show
Thanks - just looking at them now after the tip above about a Google Nest Hub. The sticking point with the Google is I can't find that it directly supports O365 calendars. I've found a few people talking about syncing O365 to a Google Calendar and showing that but that is faff. I don't like faff.The Echo Show 5 (2021) is down to £35. We already have an Echo speaker in the kitchen, so checking the app shows that an Echo natively talks to O365.
Carbon Sasquatch said:
Looks like an Amazon Echo Show
Nice, like a Nest Hub but from amazon rather than google?Harpoon said:
Thanks - just looking at them now after the tip above about a Google Nest Hub. The sticking point with the Google is I can't find that it directly supports O365 calendars. I've found a few people talking about syncing O365 to a Google Calendar and showing that but that is faff. I don't like faff.
I can agree, but we've been using google calendars for over a decade privately, I have gsync on my computer to sync my work (O365) calendar there.It's not ideal (need a windows machine running office) but works well for us. There are probably some online sync services but they're going to be paid ime.
Anyway, having them all together somewhere is great and Google Calendar is a good spot for us.
These ecosystems can get annoying though. We recently swapped out our Ring doorbell as that was from amazon, now we have a Google one that plays better with the google stuff. (works a lot better though, never got the ring to work properly)
In the spirit that I intended.
Working desktop
Show desktop
Perspective makes the desk look smaller than it is, it's 1.4m long, if I put the keyboard under the riser I have more than A3+ A4 page size to work on, as you can see from the GBFO printer there is paper involved, we won't uhhh mention about the overhanging printer addon to make best use of space
Working desktop
Show desktop
Perspective makes the desk look smaller than it is, it's 1.4m long, if I put the keyboard under the riser I have more than A3+ A4 page size to work on, as you can see from the GBFO printer there is paper involved, we won't uhhh mention about the overhanging printer addon to make best use of space
Edited by techguyone on Tuesday 4th January 13:19
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