Post your actual desk(top)!

phuturism · 2021-04-15 00:42:44

ohnonot wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/lo0XBW5t.jpg
I love the weird sculpture in front of the boarded-up fireplace - that's almost some sort of conceptual art, a statement, in a domestic context

not sure if serious :-)

it's a rented house and a previous tenant left it there - I think it's a holder for dried sticks/long dried flowers etc that you see in some houses. I like it empty too though

hhh · 2021-04-15 04:13:05

ohnonot wrote:

Then we also have an electronic waste bin a few hundred meters away;

I'm jealous, that is certainly not a thing in most or maybe all of the US. Most everybody throws electronics and batteries into trash because they don't know any better, which goes into landfills, eventually corrodes and then can contaminate ground water. Heck, even recycling is a scam in this country, something like over 80% of it goes into landfills.

It's gonna be great when people's Teslas start being disposed of here, we'll have landfills of burning Tesla batteries.

PackRat · 2021-04-15 09:50:10

ohnonot wrote:

Then we also have an electronic waste bin a few hundred meters away; I must admit I sometimes go scavenging there just for the heck of it,

That would be handy. Ours is several kilometers away, and the bin is set in ground fairly deep. Would have to bring a ladder with me.

hhh · 2021-04-15 16:04:37

^ PackRat lives about an hour car ride away from me, somewhere in the woods of South Carolina, I think. Why does he have an electronic waste disposal bin and I don't here in Charleston, one of the largest metro areas in the state?

https://www.charlestoncounty.org/depart … ations.php

Laughing now, "The Romney St. Convenience Center is closed." I know that center, it's a 6 minute bicycle ride from my house. What a scam, they don't even collect my recycling a third of the time. And the collection is only every other week in the first place.

PackRat · 2021-04-16 00:46:41

Electronics recycling in Charleston is handled by independent contractors like Meridian Metals. The local schools may also accept electronics for recycling as part of a funding drive; check with the school district.

I live about 3 hours from you over by the Savannah River site. Sizeable engineering demographic in this area with lots of electronics to recycle.

ohnonot · 2021-04-17 20:08:12

hhh wrote:

I'm jealous, that is certainly not a thing in most or maybe all of the US.

It certainly isn't the norm around here either, and a compuer repair guy using it makes it even better.
Without him it would be mostly hair dryers, toasters and crappy phones...
But hey, you did get your 24" monitor!

Come to think of it, we also have this waste disposal place nearby where people can bring larger stuff with their cars, with neatly labeled containers for different types of waste - and again, one for computers.

deleted0 · 2021-07-20 15:03:16

Just 'cause I could.

8bit

glittersloth · 2021-07-20 15:09:33

^ No rudder pedals? Amateur!!

damo · 2021-07-20 15:59:25

Marianne!! Nice to see you again :waving:

deleted0 · 2021-07-20 17:16:27

glittersloth wrote:

^ No rudder pedals? Amateur!!

Guilty as charged. But, no interest in FS. I got to ride one once, It was inspiring. Left me feeling out of sink for hours afterwords.

8bit

el_koraco · 2021-07-20 17:21:17

eight.bit.al wrote:

https://scrot.cloud/images/2021/07/20/IMG_20210720_094604699.th.jpg
Just 'cause I could.
8bit

oatmeal speaker stand ftw

glittersloth · 2021-07-20 17:27:47

eight.bit.al wrote:

glittersloth wrote:
^ No rudder pedals? Amateur!!
Guilty as charged. But, no interest in FS. I got to ride one once, It was inspiring. Left me feeling out of sink for hours afterwords.
8bit

People have hacked/reprogrammed those sorts of accessories to augment/automate tasks they weren't intended for. There's lots of little projects on github and the like. Pedals to switch workspaces/monitors, for example. Also been done with driving pedals, midi stomp boxes, etc. Basically, anything containing firmware chip of some sort (or connected to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino) is game. Some people in my profession use Behringer mixing consoles for Lightroom or Capture One adjustments.

EdiT:
Old example - https://hackaday.com/2011/05/05/automat … oot-pedal/

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Sector11 · 2021-07-21 13:11:07

eight.bit.al wrote:

Just 'cause I could.
8bit

Yup, just like my system, almost identical, just a few minor details missing.

And according to the subject title: » Post your actual desk(top)! » I cannot post an image.

Why - because I cannot see my "desktop". I must clean it off someday.

deleted0 · 2021-07-21 13:16:54

Sector11 wrote:

Why - because I cannot see my "desktop". I must clean it off someday.

Nope. Desktop means everything on it too. So, when will you be posting?

8bit

Sector11 · 2021-07-22 13:57:43

eight.bit.al wrote:

Nope. Desktop means everything on it too. So, when will you be posting?
8bit

My forgetter is getting better. Now if my rememberer works better than my forgetter, I just "might" get a

and

take the picture
transfer it from camera to computer
send it

- will try the "round-tuit" later today.

deleted0 · 2021-07-22 15:54:31

el_koraco wrote:

oatmeal speaker stand ftw

Got a real deal on'em too.

/me looks over at the can of
black spray paint. One of these days...

8bit

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Sector11 · 2021-07-22 18:14:39

OK he is go ....

WARNING - Not fit for young kids or dogs.

Kids will say: "Hey, if he can have a messy desk I can to!"
- you don't need that frustration.
Dogs, if they can, they will chew on everything
- you don't need that frustration either.

and S11's version of "The Wall" by Bricks n Stones:

deleted0 · 2021-07-23 01:15:56

^ Good fun trying to figure out what everything is.

Thanks for posting.

8bit

Sector11 · 2021-07-23 01:45:07

@ eight.bit.al

Go for it. It was cleaned off a week ago and everything dusted and cleaned, but with no other place to put stuff, it all came back. It's home for a lot of that stuff, just some is temporary.

I will say one thing: the "laptop keyboard" is my coffee coaster. Picked that up from a local repair shop, just like the 2 cpus that have little figures glued to them.

OK that's two things.

Sector11 · 2021-07-23 20:54:10

Discord is a great way to chat. And they have added all kinds of support channels since the onset of covid. I chat with some people my age or older

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord_(software)#Features wrote:

Starting in June 2020, Discord announced it was shifting focus away from video gaming specifically to a more all-purpose communication and chat client for all functions, revealing its new slogan "Your place to talk" and a revised website. Among other planned changes would be to reduce the number of gaming in-jokes it uses within the client, improving the user onboarding experience, and increasing server capacity and reliability. The company announced it had received an additional US$100 million in investments to help with these changes.

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