Post your actual desk(top)!

deleted0 · 2021-01-22 02:50:06

^ We need a daytime shot to see what's going on, please.

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phuturism · 2021-01-22 03:14:16

hhh wrote:

https://i.postimg.cc/QBNLJP9k/20210121-191511.jpg

Looks spooky

hhh · 2021-01-23 05:01:32

^, ^^, It's just more USB cables coming out the sides and I got rid of the supporting box. It's still this, more or less, except it's the old Inspiron instead of the slightly less-old Latitude...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 45#p107045

deleted0 · 2021-04-01 18:37:12

Just for fun I hooked up everything I had desk space for.

https://we.tl/t-9C3qcHBUBr

8bit

hhh · 2021-04-01 20:17:45

^ Wrong link, I think.

deleted0 · 2021-04-01 20:32:17

^ Do you get a download button?

8bit

hhh · 2021-04-01 21:24:53

Ah yes, my bad. Buy some speaker stands and put your speakers just behind and a couple of feet above your table, away from all those treble reflecting screens, you bum.

Giving me crap for a 2x4 while using oatmeal cans himself, jerk. Where's your subwoofer, and which way is it facing?

deleted0 · 2021-04-01 22:24:17

hhh wrote:

Buy some speaker stands and put your speakers just behind and a couple of feet above your table, away from all those treble reflecting screens, you bum.

Whoa, where is this hostility coming from. Is that how you represent the forum as a moderator.

Giving me crap for a 2x4 while using oatmeal cans himself, jerk.

You couldn't be more wrong.
From post https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 91#p106891:

eight.bit.al wrote:

hhh wrote:
I finally found a free piece of wood that gives me a proper soundstage. I present "The Flying Brick"...
https://i.postimg.cc/sGyDJgt7/20200930-191803.jpg
Nice; now raise the speakers so the axis of the speaker cones is at ear level.
8bit

If that's giving you crap, your sensitivity knob is set to 11.
And more bad example from a moderator.

From:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/misc.php?action=rules
General guidelines
Ad-hominem attacks are not allowed.

And from post:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 14#p106914

eight.bit.al wrote:

hhh wrote:
The tweeters are less than a foot below my ears. Good enough for a wobbly plank of wood. The improvement is huge, I have a sound stage. I'll post again when I have some tower stands or maybe shelves on the wall.
Not only raise them (when you get a real desk speaker stands) but angle them towards you. Which you can do right now.
8bit

Okay, maybe the tiniest bit of crap leaked through, and immediately taken back.

Where's your subwoofer, and which way is it facing?

Name and badge number before I answer any questions officer.

8bit

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deleted0 · 2021-04-01 22:42:24

eight.bit.al wrote:

Just for fun I hooked up everything I had desk space for.
https://we.tl/t-9C3qcHBUBr
8bit

BTW, That's a google free link, just for ohnonot.

8bit

hhh · 2021-04-01 22:43:05

All right. You and @ohnonot have sufficiently humbled me. Well played.

deleted0 · 2021-04-01 22:43:22

The f̶o̶r̶u̶m̶ operator got confused. Post deleted.

8bit

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ohnonot · 2021-04-06 19:51:17

eight.bit.al wrote:

eight.bit.al wrote:
Just for fun I hooked up everything I had desk space for.
https://we.tl/t-9C3qcHBUBr
8bit
BTW, That's a google free link, just for ohnonot.
8bit

Sorry, not true. And much more. I gave up when I saw all that.

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deleted0 · 2021-04-06 21:21:49

^ Well, I tried to be considerate of your needs, hope that's worth something.

8bit

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hhh · 2021-04-13 18:40:54

I found a 24" Dell monitor with a removable stand and in great condition, no screen chips and only one shallow, very narrow 2mm scratch, the plastics are all good too. It was left for trash in front of an apartment when some tenant moved out. I figured I'd buy a used VGA cable at the local thrift shop (neither of my old Dell laptops output HDMI). They never had any, so I finally ordered one online for $5.

Uh, the monitor works perfectly. And it turns out it's 10 years old or so but it's a good one, a U2412M UltraSharp...

https://www.dell.com/is/business/p/dell-u2412m/pd

I'm an idiot for not doing this sooner (I've had the thing for a year), the picture is a HUGE upgrade (sorry for the crooked photo, the light grey vertical stripe on the right of the screen is just the bezel reflecting sunlight from the window, I had the shades open fully. The screen is pretty close to flawless)...

Anyway, score one more on my list of ultra-cheap computer hardware.

deleted0 · 2021-04-13 21:02:33

^ is that a bullet hole in the wall?

8bit

deleted0 · 2021-04-13 21:07:00

hhh wrote:

Anyway, score one more on my list of ultra-cheap computer hardware.

Nice. Yeah my setup looks impressive, but it's 85% trash finds and thrift store bargains.

8bit

phuturism · 2021-04-14 02:48:01

new setup in melbourne - with bonus pooch.

Desk is a DJ mixing desk purchased on ebay for AUD100. Can be set high as a standing desk, hard to raise/lower so need an adjustable drafting chair, this works!

deleted0 · 2021-04-14 03:12:34

Bonus pooch! FTW

8bit

hhh · 2021-04-14 03:52:30

eight.bit.al wrote:

^ is that a bullet hole in the wall?
8bit

It might be. More likely a clumsy attempt at nailing something to the ridiculously hard wall or a major ding from getting furniture into this small room. I'm pretty sure that heavy scratch upper left of the monitor is from moving furniture. Both here when I moved in and I haven't bothered to Spackle or paint. I ain't that fancy these days.

Finding awesome hardware on the street 100 paces from one's home is rare. Total cost of this system is now $5 more than it was before, now it's $305. You can still buy this monitor. Refurbished, it will cost you USD $132. That's a good price for what you get. I payed nothing, that's a great score.

@phutur, nice setup and dog!

ohnonot · 2021-04-14 18:24:54

phuturism wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/sRVcbCIt.jpg
new setup in melbourne - with bonus pooch.
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

hhh wrote:

I found a 24" Dell monitor with a removable stand and in great condition, no screen chips and only one shallow, very narrow 2mm scratch, the plastics are all good too. It was left for trash in front of an apartment when some tenant moved out.

That's how I got my current monitor. I've had it for years now.

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, and used to have an accumulation of usable devices (a couple extra monitors, PSUs, even a 500GB hard drive).
There's a computer repair shop (probably the last of its kind for miles around) a few hundred meters in the other direction from that bin, I suspect the shop owner is filling it regularly.
Evtl. I got fed up with the hoarding and brought almost all of it back to the bin - and as it happens so often in life, soon thereafter I was sorely missing a second monitor...
So I went back to the bin, and there it was waiting for me! Now I have 2 monitors of identical size and comparable quality. I think they're both 22". They definitely are of 1680x1050 resolution.

Yesterday's favourite / Don't you hate it

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