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WFH is not enough: outside working begins!
but nippy still, didn't go today - I am testing a solar powered off grid battery and it works plenty good enough. made that from scraps of wood and the (t)rusty bbq :) it normally sits on the kitchen table.
WIth all the kids coming out of school (not mandated - but why wait, wife can take care of them fine in the day) I will be fucking off out into the shed (the building to the right in the distance (without chimney)

Wow. Looks incredible.

Wow, better than MacGyver, I see.

Doom prepping? ;D

But looks awesome. :)

Thanks All - it is a bit wobbly, but i only type on it.
nah the wife is doom prepping. france was going to be our end times shelter, slight problem of actually getting there though :/

^How're the coretemps during dinner time?

^ Oh I see, yeah lol.
Moved inside as the klds are all around the place now, and everyone was like "are you on farm, is that a rooster" yes it is...
back to the old stand desk, just with the laptop on top.

I do need to clean the shit out of the grill of the X1 though normal temps are now 50C rather than 45C

could probably do with cleaning the BBQ grill too

new battle station French style :D bit of a work in progress (no! really? )
Ideally get the NUC running again, with both screens. This is an acceptable compromise for now though.
shame the X1s don't have docking stations (well, they do, but all USB3 plug things)

Lovely guy on the right watching over you.

Old buildings, how I love them.

Question -- I see the two-monitor setup, and I get that, but there is someone on the Arch forum trying to set up a single machine with 8 monitors. What kind of setup needs 8 monitors?

A very schizo person, or alien with eight brains and eyes like flies? Monitor horder?

I can see why a sysadmin can use a couple of monitors, but it's a very confusing setup for me. Too much head motion for my taste.

I can understand two monitors, but eight? You can't look at more than two at a time, and the rest would seem like just noise to me. But I have a smallish 4x3 monitor and don't even see the need for a bigger wider monitor. I just run everything full screen and switch screens when I want to see something else. Maybe if I did anything professional with my machines it would make more sense, who knows.

8 is just showing off, I'd say. I certainly wouldn't really need it.
my 2 monitor setup is left one my tmux sesh on the bastions server, and right is a browser. work chat is a browser window now (mattermost, it's quite good) and I have a few local terminals for /etc/hosts editing and mucking about on the right.. I haven't used two for about a year now. Haven't missed it that much. really, using i3 with most things fullscreen

and yeah Llama available to purchase!
funnily enough, while it is an old building, that wall bit is all newish (2007ish) :D
The oldest bit is the door that we got off the neighbour and fitted in to the plasterboard.

got the wife a Lenovo Yoga ryzen 5 something something - pretty cool, with a touchscreen which folds into tablet or tent. Still has windows on it so she can do photoshop - pretty nice machine, hasn't blown up yet anyway. Got it secondhand off a place on ebay.
Stupid problem with the gfx drivers making the screen light up after resuming from sleep - but can't do anything - so have to power off and back on again. Reinstalling the drivers (twice so far) have made it work normally. Quite tempted to put ubuntu or something on it. for now it'll do

OH I bought a zenbook. It's pretty nice. nothing majorly annoying (apart from the FR keyboard which even the french are astounded how bad/useless it is)
I popped the fucking keys off that I could to make it at least appear mostly qwerty. (terrible ex-pat I know)
it's pretty quick. it was this or a 2017 thinkpad X1.. which well there wasn't anything amazingly wrong with the X1 I really like the battery (8 hours on 89%) that's good with me. Wifi isn't as able to pick up the signal outside (stone walls) as the X1 - keyboard is acceptable and some keys in weird places I've just about got used to.
Yes it is running gnome, ubuntu 21 is really very nice.

Congrats, let us hope it will serve you well for a long time. :)