Share your HOME WORKING workstation environment - pics

[Sporky]

xeny said:

Presumably you can use them as a conventional mouse? I'm thinking of upgrading my work PC.

I think so, but a mouse is cheaper and better at being a mouse. Natural mapping and all that. If you're not doing something 3D, a Spacemouse isn't much use.

Would have been good in Descent though...

[egomeister]

Doofus said:

egomeister said:

Not really, it's more of an addition so you can manipulate 3d geometry whilst the mouse if free for the usual input tasks.

Thats not a terrible description

[xeny]

Sporky said:

I think so, but a mouse is cheaper and better at being a mouse. Natural mapping and all that. If you're not doing something 3D, a Spacemouse isn't much use.

Would have been good in Descent though...

Thanks.

Descent - haven't played that in so long...

We've got a certain amount of competition when we're in the office as to who has the most esoteric keyboard/mouse arrangement - this looks as if it could be a winning play. Get to competence wfh and then use it in the office when I'm in.

[Sporky]

xeny said:

We've got a certain amount of competition when we're in the office as to who has the most esoteric keyboard/mouse arrangement - this looks as if it could be a winning play. Get to competence wfh and then use it in the office when I'm in.

Ah - that makes things rather different. Might be bringing a banana to a gunfight, but my wife has one of these - much better to type on than you might think:



And apologies if you know them already, but a bazillion options at https://www.keyboardco.com/

I also have a second numeric keypad on the left of the main keyboard - at work I do a lot of Excel so having mouse in right hand and tapping in numbers with the left is quite convenient, and I used AutoHotKeys to remap the 00 button to be a comma for CAD co-ordinates. It pretty much matches my keyboard so the combination looks a bit confusing. And the main keyboard is a Filco Ninja, so at first glance all the keys are blank - the letters etc are marked on the front face instead of the top.

[sleepezy]

devnull said:

Anyone making use of an L Shaped standing desk? Any recommendations?

We have a simple Ikea one - works great - possibly about to get another as we're converting a spare bedroom into a bedroom/study as my other half has camped out in our study full time.

[jimmyjimjim]

xeny said:

Thanks.

Descent - haven't played that in so long...

We've got a certain amount of competition when we're in the office as to who has the most esoteric keyboard/mouse arrangement - this looks as if it could be a winning play. Get to competence wfh and then use it in the office when I'm in.

You'd be better off (no, not really) getting a planck or a preonic keyboard, and something like an elecom HUGE trackball. Then you can have a mouse that's bigger than the keyboard. And a keyboard that's still useable. With your choice of keycaps.

https://drop.com/buy/planck-mechanical-keyboard

[wibble cb]

wibble cb said:

xeny said:

wibble cb said:

Hi all ,

I want the ability to see my 2 desktop screens separately via VPN using a MacBook as the conduit…we are using windows10 enterprise.

OK, I've just RDP'd from my MacBook Pro to a 10 enterprise machine and had one of the displays appear on an external monitor, one appear on the built in. There's a checkbox in the RDP client to "use all monitors" so looks as if it will do what you want.

Cheers!

I never did get this to work, so I bought a NUC Windows PC, and a 2nd screen, made a desk ( and liberated a large calculator from work)




I can now work from home in comfort.

[abzmike]

anonymous said:

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It will be 100% more comfortable if you could get your knees under the desk...

[mmm-five]

abzmike said:

It will be 100% more comfortable if you could get your knees under the desk...

...and a proper office chair with wheels - but not an powerfully-built executive, heavily padded, lounging chair.

[HM-2]

Bit of a WIP, moving into a garden office at the moment. 2000x720x27mm worktop (got cheap because of a slight bow in it) on Flexispot E6 legs. Bare cable is CAT6A I haven't yet done the connector for.

[PageyUK]

HM-2 said:

Bit of a WIP, moving into a garden office at the moment. 2000x720x27mm worktop (got cheap because of a slight bow in it) on Flexispot E6 legs. Bare cable is CAT6A I haven't yet done the connector for.

Hi,

The desk looks lovely. Similar to what I want to purchase for my new office I'm building.

How is this frame compared to others? Looked it up and it seems more expensive to others, is there a good reason for the price difference?

Any more details on your garden office? Is that LVT flooring or a roll?

Thanks

[HM-2]

I've been very happy with the desk. Having used a variety of sit/stand desk ranging from cheap Amazon and IKEA ones up to the insanely expensive Humanscale ones this is basically the most sturdy I've used, and great weight capacity too (IIRC 125 or 150kg).

They're usually on discount of some kind, I actually cancelled my first order and reordered because they went to 40% off. I think intended up paying £240 for the frame and £120 for the desk top.

The garden building isn't very big, 15m2 consisting of a 9m2 office and a 6m2 workshop. It was done by a local company as a custom design with most of the construction taking place over a week except for the doors which were delayed for ages.









Not huge inside but more than big enough for my requirements. The flooring is just oak effect laminate tiles, in hindsight I probably would have gone for something else as it doesn't match the beech very well but most of it will be coverer with a rug anyway.




I haven't finished doing all the cable routing and tidying yet but done a good chunk more than is shown here. Still waiting on a USB 3.0 hub for my laptop because for some reason I can't use my 90 degree adapter with my dock and still get USB passthrough. Tried 5 different cables and none work!

I made a custom laptop holder so I can slot it under the desk and have the dock and hub hidden from view, it's not perfect (a bit of a bodge made from two tablet holders I cut up with a Dremel) but plenty sturdy enough. I might use some modelling putty and epoxy to fix the USB-C and A cables from the dock and hub in place so they automatically connect when you slide it in too.

PC is due a rebuild, I've got a 5900X and motherboard waiting to go in along with hard-line tubing. Monitors are a pair of 165Hz 27" ROG Swifts. I use an Aten USB KVM to share mouse and keyboard between PC and laptop, with the button hidden under the desk by my mouse mat. Succulent from IKEA.





Of course, the other mandatory requirement for a nice home office is chilled draft beer on tap, so yesterday evening I also built a kegerator.



Still need to get storage and the like sorted (going to do some IKEA Kallax with another wooden top on them plus I already have an unassembled set of the Alex drawers everyone has).

I'm also thinking of fitting my wireless charger so it's flush with the desk, but haven't yet built up the courage to take a 40mm hole saw to my desk.

Edited by HM-2 on Wednesday 10th November 08:54

[TheJimi]

That's a nice, very useable, space.

Can you give an indication of cost, out of interest?

[HM-2]

TheJimi said:

That's a nice, very useable, space.

Can you give an indication of cost, out of interest?

Happy to- it came in at about £18k total. Would have been a little cheaper if it weren't for a few specific design decisions we made.

We did a lot of research and visited about half-a-dozen offices that had been built by a variety of companies, ranging from those who pretty much just source and assemble flat-pack kits to proper bespoke providers. The one we went with was at the cheaper end, most of the quotes we had in were in the £20k ballpark.

Worth noting that going bigger significant reduces the square footage cost; an uplift from 15 to 21 square meters would have only cost about £2k more but we were limited by the width of our garden (which is 25m long but only about 8 wide) and the requirement to have at least 1m between the building and any boundaries if over 15m2.


It's still quite early days (only been moved in for two weeks now) but so far it's proven to be very quiet, pretty warm (only had the heater one once) and plenty big enough.

[TheJimi]

Thanks for that, I appreciate the feedback.

[anonymous-user]

HM-2 said:

Interesting stuff

Looks excellent. You must be very pleased with it.

I will also say that the cost seems to represent good value as well.

[ZesPak]

18k does represent good value. How much did you do yourself?

[HM-2]

ZesPak said:

18k does represent good value. How much did you do yourself?

Aside from levelling the old patio before groundworks started and most of the internal (IE in the house) Cat6 plus terminations, none on the building itself. Everything from initial design (though with my input) through to painting done by the supplier.

[james6546]

Bit nerdy and the right hand monitor will be replaced when I can afford it with one/two the same height as the ultrawide in the middle.

I swapped offices with my wife (she gets the proper office and I get a bedroom) because she hated it up here as it's dark. I actually like it a lot better than the one I had before

[james6546]

The centre one is on a mount.

The 13 inch macbook is a customer project one, not mine. The M1 processor is great though.