deskthority

You will have to excuse my crappy compact camera, but there are too many conventional working spaces in this thread.

Hah, Deskthority and Geekhack on each side like this:

I like the switch panel. Switches with consequences deserve protective "oh shit!" covers. That's what I'd put on cAPS lOCK in fact…

kakarlsen wrote:You will have to excuse my crappy compact camera, but there are too many conventional working spaces in this thread.

I think this is the only desktop where the annoying term "daily driver" actually makes sense.

If I had a setup like that I'd make sure that every time I sat down, the sound of a race car revving would play.

That's what those switches with a molly-guard are for. You don't want accidentally turn off your engine.

Nice 1980s steering wheel.


BTW: In my mind, DT is right and GH is wrongleft. Don't really know why ...

kakarlsen wrote:You will have to excuse my crappy compact camera, but there are too many conventional working spaces in this thread.

Waah, brilliant ! You are so very right ! We are being way too conventional (kbdfr's Tipro-extravaganza and Webwits datahands-chair excluded), but I think the problem is perhaps that we all tend to do the same things behind our type organs ?? No real excuse perhaps..

For some time I've been intrigued by the flightsim community, there's this Dutch company that builds uberrealistic fligth sim gear, but it is a bit expensive. And I'm wondering how I could actually use stuff like that for the mundane tasks of every day:

nourathar wrote:For some time I've been intrigued by the flightsim community, there's this Dutch company that builds uberrealistic fligth sim gear, but it is a bit expensive. And I'm wondering how I could actually use stuff like that for the mundane tasks of every day:

Whoa. I want that. The ugly black keyboard looks out of place though. I'd put a beam spring there.

Such a carefully built rig, and still they manage to put a crappy keyboard on it! Oh, well, real life drone pilots use Cherry ML keyboards.

Currently i have no desktop at home (new desk in construction) so it's minimalist :



http://imgur.com/a/2LqKI

derp

davkol wrote:What pointing device do you use, if any? When I cover the trackpoint on my X200T, I still have the Wacom digitizer. It comes handy from time to time.

...oh wait, isn't the X201 supposed to have a touchpad?

No touchpad on my X201… If needed i use the trackpoint (but i spend lot's of time in terminal or emacs). That's why i've decided to order a TeX Yoda with trackpoint.

Mr_peck.
What board is that, and do you plan on getting rid of it?

derp

I miss the times when you could order a Thinkpad without a touchpad.

I'm selling my TypeMatrix 2030 right now, see my other Deskthority-thread.

mr_a500 wrote:Whoa. I want that. The ugly black keyboard looks out of place though. I'd put a beam spring there.

You gonna update your strategic/nuclear launch center to an airborne strategic/nuclear launch center?

SHHHHH! If my enemies find out, it'll start another arms race.

sheeeeit dem lights!
Like ricer neons for your desk

webwit wrote:You gonna update your strategic/nuclear launch center to an airborne strategic/nuclear launch center?

I already added one of these to my desktop, but it doesn't launch anything.... yet.

Note to self: do not try to excuse the acquisition of terminals as "well, it'd make a nice desk?"

But the reel to reel: I can understand that. Where's your matching Grado headphones?

I keep the Grado headphones attached to my 23-year-old Pioneer compact disc player. (first one I ever bought)

I should have turned on the Heathkit multimeter for the above photo. It has nixie tubes. If you're going to have a "command centre", you must have nixie tubes. (...for...some unknown reason..)

Obligatory pic with my 40%. It makes my desk look pretty big

Nice. The display asymmetry is driving me crazy, and I'd like to see someone use a keyboard as far away from the desk edge as that, but 40% is indeed the new 60%. More room for… more keyboards!

I actually use keyboards like that. My whole arms (elbows+) rest on the desk most of the time
And that asymmetry is great. Having one monitor in portrait is super useful but for movies and games I still need the landscape mode one.

Ergonomics: whatever works for you. I'm exactly the opposite, I like my keyboard right at the desk's edge, and I do a lot of my work standing… precisely aligned to the midline of my one display! Someday I'll go multi-monitor, but as I'm fussy they must be 4k or greater so it'll be a while yet.

That is the exact opposite of why most people use dual monitor setups. Low res demands more screens. Once the resolution goes up (4K), the need for a dual monitor setup is less critical.

But I am with you on the elbows on desk thing, ne0phyte! Before I got armrests on my chair, I couldn't use my keyboard/mouse comfortable without laying both arms on the desk.

ne0phyte wrote:I actually use keyboards like that. My whole arms (elbows+) rest on the desk most of the time
And that asymmetry is great. Having one monitor in portrait is super useful but for movies and games I still need the landscape mode one.

I had my monitor in portrait, I loved it but I couldn't sustain it because of games and movies :'(

Would do portrait landscape portrait if I was rich enough for 2 more dell ultrasharps

Broadmonkey wrote:That is the exact opposite of why most people use dual monitor setups. Low res demands more screens. Once the resolution goes up (4K), the need for a dual monitor setup is less critical.

But I am with you on the elbows on desk thing, ne0phyte! Before I got armrests on my chair, I couldn't use my keyboard/mouse comfortable without laying both arms on the desk.

I prefer two physical screens for a number of reasons
Oh and I have a (way too) expensive chair with arm rests but prefer resting my arms on the desk