Share your HOME WORKING workstation environment - pics
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Riley Blue said:
No idea but that's what she told me when she started working from home. I've just asked again and she's now said, "Oh yes, a monitor is OK, I 'd be allowed to plug one of yours in..." I've only been suggesting to her for the past five months she does just that! 
Never mind, it gives me a good excuse to buy myself a new one and let her have an old one of mine
Unless they have disabled the usb port and/or bluetooth she should be able to use an external mouse and keyboard too.Never mind, it gives me a good excuse to buy myself a new one and let her have an old one of mine
sgrimshaw said:
Riley Blue said:
No idea but that's what she told me when she started working from home. I've just asked again and she's now said, "Oh yes, a monitor is OK, I 'd be allowed to plug one of yours in..." I've only been suggesting to her for the past five months she does just that!
Never mind, it gives me a good excuse to buy myself a new one and let her have an old one of mine
Unless they have disabled the usb port and/or bluetooth she should be able to use an external mouse and keyboard too.Never mind, it gives me a good excuse to buy myself a new one and let her have an old one of mine
Women...
Riley Blue said:
sgrimshaw said:
Riley Blue said:
No idea but that's what she told me when she started working from home. I've just asked again and she's now said, "Oh yes, a monitor is OK, I 'd be allowed to plug one of yours in..." I've only been suggesting to her for the past five months she does just that!
Never mind, it gives me a good excuse to buy myself a new one and let her have an old one of mine
Unless they have disabled the usb port and/or bluetooth she should be able to use an external mouse and keyboard too.Never mind, it gives me a good excuse to buy myself a new one and let her have an old one of mine
Women...
The IT advice given to staff is often to cater for their level of interest and understanding. It is so much simpler to explain don't plug anything in then helping them understand what is and isn't ok to do. Often brilliant at their actual jobs, but horrifically bad at IT. I used to spend half my days explaining such basic stuff to them all, IT isn't even my job haha.
Its like explaining to the wife why she needs to check her oil or tyre pressures
Watchman said:
Now that's fascinating. I've got a Nexus 4 that will run Ubuntu - I might give that a go as it's a lovely item. Sadly I've also got an original Nexus 7 but they don't list that as compatible.
Yes it will and there's a tool on the UB Ports website to flash it easily now, unfortunately the Phone OS isn't really usable for much other than making calls and texts. 
Monitor is a 27" QHD. I work with 2-web browers open side by side, then have my email and communction open on the laptop.
You can usually tell the people who've only just started working from home as they haven't yet sprawled across every surface, or given up entirely and created an entirely new environment.
I've been pretty much 100% VO for 10 years, so I've settled down a fair bit. Got evicted from my office upstairs to make room for the kids, had the basement finished off, and now work from there.
Out of shot to the left, shelf full of work related bits'n'bobs, couch with more junk on it, and behind me, a 3D printer on another desk.
Yes, I do use all of the phones, occasionally at the same time.
38" ultra-wide, using the built in KVM for the NUC and the main PC.
I've been pretty much 100% VO for 10 years, so I've settled down a fair bit. Got evicted from my office upstairs to make room for the kids, had the basement finished off, and now work from there.
Out of shot to the left, shelf full of work related bits'n'bobs, couch with more junk on it, and behind me, a 3D printer on another desk.
Yes, I do use all of the phones, occasionally at the same time.
38" ultra-wide, using the built in KVM for the NUC and the main PC.
Edited by jimmyjimjim on Friday 20th March 14:28
jimmyjimjim said:
You can usually tell the people who've only just started working from home as they haven't yet sprawled across every surface, or given up entirely and created an entirely new environment.
I've been pretty much 100% VO for 10 years, so I've settled down a fair bit. Got evicted from my office upstairs to make room for the kids, had the basement finished off, and now work from there.
Out of shot to the left, shelf full of work related bits'n'bobs, couch with more junk on it, and behind me, a 3D printer on another desk.
Yes, I do use all of the phones, occasionally at the same time.........
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Exactly what I was going to suggest as most of the previous poster's workstations are just too tidy. All - retake that picture in a couple of weeks time I've been pretty much 100% VO for 10 years, so I've settled down a fair bit. Got evicted from my office upstairs to make room for the kids, had the basement finished off, and now work from there.
Out of shot to the left, shelf full of work related bits'n'bobs, couch with more junk on it, and behind me, a 3D printer on another desk.
Yes, I do use all of the phones, occasionally at the same time.........
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I have been in a VO for at least 6 years, when not on the road (not much of that happening). Here is my version of the evolving 'Beirut'......or there would be if I could get Thumbsnap to work! I won't show the view behind me. There is a garden but the view is obscured by two huge clothes airers and an adult sized rocking horse! (don't ask
) Yay!
Edited by Marlin45 on Friday 20th March 19:05
Edited by Marlin45 on Friday 20th March 19:08
Marlin45 said:
Exactly what I was going to suggest as most of the previous poster's workstations are just too tidy. All - retake that picture in a couple of weeks time
I've worked from home for that the last 20 years and you need to keep your desk reasonably tidy like you would in an office. Having said that, I did tidy mine up for me desk selfie !
jimmyjimjim said:
You can usually tell the people who've only just started working from home as they haven't yet sprawled across every surface, or given up entirely and created an entirely new environment.
I've been pretty much 100% VO for 10 years, so I've settled down a fair bit. Got evicted from my office upstairs to make room for the kids, had the basement finished off, and now work from there.
Out of shot to the left, shelf full of work related bits'n'bobs, couch with more junk on it, and behind me, a 3D printer on another desk.
Yes, I do use all of the phones, occasionally at the same time.
38" ultra-wide, using the built in KVM for the NUC and the main PC.
Those ultra-wides look amazing. I believe you get curved ones too.I've been pretty much 100% VO for 10 years, so I've settled down a fair bit. Got evicted from my office upstairs to make room for the kids, had the basement finished off, and now work from there.
Out of shot to the left, shelf full of work related bits'n'bobs, couch with more junk on it, and behind me, a 3D printer on another desk.
Yes, I do use all of the phones, occasionally at the same time.
38" ultra-wide, using the built in KVM for the NUC and the main PC.
Edited by jimmyjimjim on Friday 20th March 14:28
Most of my IT kit is second hand, donated, or cheap (Raspberry Pi). I would never have considered paying several hundred pounds for a screen until I saw those ulta-wides and now I feel my life is incomplete without one.
Watchman said:
Those ultra-wides look amazing. I believe you get curved ones too.
Most of my IT kit is second hand, donated, or cheap (Raspberry Pi). I would never have considered paying several hundred pounds for a screen until I saw those ulta-wides and now I feel my life is incomplete without one.
....it is. Dell U3818DW. Was $900 towards the end of 2018.Most of my IT kit is second hand, donated, or cheap (Raspberry Pi). I would never have considered paying several hundred pounds for a screen until I saw those ulta-wides and now I feel my life is incomplete without one.
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