Ask HN: What does your battle station look like?

[jesuscript]

It’s fine to describe it, pictures if you are willing.

[BlameKaneda]

Here's what I have:

- Standing desk

- Two 24" monitors, each on single Humanscale monitor arms (bought used on eBay, at a significant discount). I switched from dual arms to single because the latter means that I can move one monitor without affecting the other.

- Tenkeyless mechanical keyboard (MX silent red switches)

- 60% mech keyboard (MX brown switches)

- Vertical Logitech mouse on a mousepad (that looks like a mini carpet)

- Work laptop

- Microphone on a Rode arm (bought used on eBay) that's fixed onto a wall shelf

- Custom-built PC in an ATX Mid Tower

- HDMI switch that lets me use my main monitor with my work laptop and my PC

- USB switch that lets me do the same with my keyboard and mouse

- A collection of mechanical pencils in a ceramic sugar skull

[kingkongjaffa]

- Work issued thinkpad

- 2 24” monitors on VESA mount arms

- keychron k2v2 mechanical keyboard

- Herman miller Aeron chair

- personal m1 MacBook Pro 14”

- personal iPad mini 6th gen and Apple Pencil ( I just got this so I’m excited to use it for work and personal stuff)

- notebook for bullet journaling

- noise cancelling headphones

[chad_strategic]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Workspaces/

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/

[jesuscript → chad_strategic]

I know those exist, but I wanted to see what HN users are rocking.

[greggarious]

What battle station? Real hackers have a sticker festooned laptop with the keys falling off that SSHs into something decent, hopefully with permission ;-)

(My “battle station” is a hipster coffee shop where they know not to ask questions about what I’m doing on the wifi or why I sometimes dart off suddenly.)

[jesuscript → greggarious]

Public workspace, too antisocial for that, if we’re talking “real” hackers :p

[greggarious → jesuscript]

You'd be amazed what folks coming to Pittsburgh to gentrify it say in public spaces :-P

It's like they don't grok some of us were born here.

(I thought the new trend is coworking paired with loud coffee shop conversations? ;))

[controversial97]

A dozen year old PC with ECC ram and a low-performance video card.

It would make sense to replace it with something that uses less electricity, but the requirement for ECC ram limits the options.

[nivertech]

Anyone is using ultrawide 5K monitor with Ubuntu 22.04 / Wayland?

There are conflicting reports on the forums wether it works properly or not …

[a_bored_husky]

Just a Thinkpad T470s and a Ferris Sweep keyboard.