Post Your Cozy Covid Workplace

From: graphitone18 Apr 2020 11:37
To: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ) 45 of 101
But there's not a fire there, so completely surplus to requirements.
From: Dave!!18 Apr 2020 11:48
To: ALL46 of 101
Here's mine. Helps that I already have my own office/man-cave and have been working from home for several years already.
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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)18 Apr 2020 12:42
To: Dave!! 47 of 101
That makes me feel ashamed.  :-@
From: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)18 Apr 2020 12:44
To: graphitone 48 of 101
That just shows it's working.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)18 Apr 2020 12:44
To: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ) 49 of 101
According to the cinema, that's a myth, the real purpose is that it is a handy weapon for clubbing people over the head.
From: Dave!!18 Apr 2020 13:12
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 50 of 101
One advantage of using the same screen for work and home use is that it gave me justification for splurging on a 30" main monitor last year. A KVM switches the screen, keyboard and mouse over to my docking station for when I'm working.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)18 Apr 2020 13:24
To: Dave!! 51 of 101
I love my usb kvm though I don't put video through it, I switch the display between the hdmi & dvi inputs (toying with the idea of adding audio to it, so I can use my one good set of headphones on both rigs). Multiple displays give me whiplash.
From: patch18 Apr 2020 19:05
To: ALL52 of 101
Man, you guys need to move countries a couple of times. That soon sorts out how much stuff you have lieing around. Most of what I own would fit into a few boxes*.

* excluding furniture, obv.
From: ANT_THOMAS18 Apr 2020 19:31
To: Dave!! 53 of 101
Wait a sec, the middle one is a 30"?
From: Dave!!19 Apr 2020 13:31
To: ANT_THOMAS 54 of 101
Yep, 30" screen, 2560x1600 res (16:10 aspect ratio obviously). The ones either side are older 4:3 screens running at 1600x1200 (liberated from work). Bought the 30" screen last year after my old, trusty 27" ViewSonic finally packed in.
From: ANT_THOMAS19 Apr 2020 15:30
To: Dave!! 55 of 101
Glad to see you've still not relented on your anti 16:9 crusade.
From: Dave!!19 Apr 2020 15:47
To: ANT_THOMAS 56 of 101
Not really a crusade, I just consider it a downgrade from 16:10 and I don't like new products that are a downgrade from what I had previously.

Incidentally I bought my wife a new laptop last year, went for a Huawei Mateboox X Pro (3:2 screen). Interestingly, the chassis is almost identically sized to the HP Elitebook I have for work. Except on my wife's laptop the whole lid is screen, whereas my work laptop has the better part of 5cm of plastic bezels at the top and bottom. It's a bit shit.
From: milko19 Apr 2020 17:15
To: Dave!! 57 of 101
I used to have a 30” (YJ) but I found it bigger than I liked for a lot of things so went down to 27” and a gsync panel. 
From: milko19 Apr 2020 17:15
To: patch 58 of 101
Patch! How the devil are you? Where the devil are you?
 
From: milko19 Apr 2020 17:16
To: Izziwizzi (JAMESW) Izziwizzi (JAMES) 59 of 101
Where are you at nowadays, I wonder?
From: milko19 Apr 2020 17:16
To: andy 60 of 101
And you. 
From: koswix19 Apr 2020 20:56
To: graphitone 61 of 101
Most of the art was my mum's (the flower ones she made), there's no particular theme. They were lying around for 2 years in a pile, wasn't sure where to put them when tidying up so i just banged a bunch of nails up all over the place and stuck them on the wall. I guess that's sort of what you're meant to do with them.

The fire extinguisher (and fire blanket) are from my welding bay (which no longer exists since I turned the garage into a wood and CNC workshop, need to build a new welding bay), I know use it to fend off H&S managers who want to do risk assessments for working from home.
From: patch19 Apr 2020 21:16
To: milko 62 of 101
Hello!

I'm still in Auckland, the part of New Zealand that isn't like the rest of New Zealand. Just coming to the last few days of the "Level 4" lockdown that we've been in for the last four weeks. The announcement of whether it gets extended or reduced to, say, Level 3 will be this afternoon. Level 3 being the same as Level 4, but the takeaways can open. Which will be great - I'd forgotten how hard it is to think of a different meal to cook every day of the week. Might even be able to make it to the beach without feeling guilty about not staying within the postcode.

I'd show a photo of my WFH desk, but it's a desk. A bit like Matt's desk, but messier, and a bit like Dave!!'s desk, but smaller.
From: Mouse23 Apr 2020 00:25
To: ALL63 of 101
I don't really have a desk but I have a garden which I'm very thankful for at the moment.
From: Serg (NUKKLEAR)23 Apr 2020 10:15
To: ALL64 of 101
I was going to say that I may have gone a bit too far on the screen front, but I seem to be in good company. Don't have my own mancave anymore since the little monster came along, so it's just the corner of a bedroom.