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My workstation, January 2024

Posted on 2024-01-09

I'd forgotten that lobste.rs runs a "post your battlestation pics" thread every year!

Lobsters Battlestations and Screenshots (2024)

Here's mine!

My workstation

(My wife's system is visible on the right-hand side, hence the pixelated display.)

Details:

Desktop: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X w/ 64GiB PC5-38400 RAM, 1TB M.2 SSD.
Monitor: Dell 4k - a (generous) freebie from my previous employer when they shut down their Australian office.
OS: Linux Mint 21 w/ i3, X.org, Emacs.
A VESA mounting arm for the monitor, that clamps to the desk.
Unicomp EnduraPro USB keyboard.
Logitech USB wireless mouse.
3M gel wrist rest which gives me serious early-2000s vibes.
A flexible magnetically-mounted light stuck to the VESA arm, just in case.
PinePuds Pro (not pictured).
Sennheiser Presence (not pictured).
Yubikey 5 Nano.
Logitech C920 webcam.

This is the first new desktop I've run since ... 2007? ... and the performance / price it offers is astounding. Now that I'm working 100% remotely, I don't regret switching away from a laptop *at all*.

The PineBuds Pro ANC and sound quality are average, but I love the Pine64 mission ("to get hardware into the hands of open source developers and tinkerers") so much that I'm happy to use them 🩷

The Sennheiser Presence is amazing - built-in mic noise cancelling that can make taking calls in a house full of chaos, or a busy city street, much more pleasant for the person on the other end 🎧

Bluetooth stability in Linux on the MSI PRO B650M-A motherboard isn't great, so I picked up a cheap Edimax Bluetooth dongle from Amazon. Works well.

I bought a box of these 3M wrist wrests on the cheap a few years ago, so will probably still be using this exact model for the rest of my career 🤣

While I love love *love* Unicomp keyboards, the Trackpoint on the EnduraPro is so bad as to be unusable (and is also now broken). They wouldn't even sell me one internationally unless I waived the warranty. Which is fine, because I have a modern strain gauge trackpoint and Teensy SBC in my workshop, awaiting fitment. That'll give it a modern laptop-style TrackPoint, and I can ditch the mouse for everything but (casual) gaming.

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