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BlackMK4 posted:HP ZR22W in portrait mode at 1080x1920. It looks really dim next to the iMac since it puts out about half the light, but it's the right size. I don't know what a better option would be but it works for $80. Looks pretty sweet. Any particularly useful things to do with it? I had a monitor that did the rotation but it was 4:3 and the stand broke so I had to get a non-rotating stand.
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Light Gun Man posted:Looks pretty sweet. Any particularly useful things to do with it? Interesting to do reading and documents on, that's the only poo poo I like vertical monitors for.
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I keep my irssi, Adium tabbed chat window, and a tabbed terminal window over there. I mainly use it for PyCharm, XCode, or Brackets.
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May 26, 2015 07:12
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May 27, 2015 12:06
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I have my new desk, but since you folks keep mentioning it, Home Depot has the gladiator on sale today http://www.homedepot.com/SpecialBuy/SpecialBuyOfTheDay
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glug posted:I have my new desk, but since you folks keep mentioning it, Home Depot has the gladiator on sale today Well, it's a Gladiator workbench. It's only 5'-6" long, though—the one goons wax rhapsodic about is 8 feet.
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May 29, 2015 18:49
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Good find, but that's also not the one with adjustable legs.
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Just moved and this is the hot mess I'm working with so far... Monitors are Dell U2312HM and Asus VH236H. Hoping to get a 27" soon to use as main monitor and get rid of the Asus, and keep the Dell on the right in portrait mode. Kinda wanting to jump on the Gladiator bandwagon cuz I definitely need more desk space. What the gently caress is cable management?
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May 30, 2015 01:38
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Nice fax machine, grandpa
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May 30, 2015 17:46
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Here is some of my desktop - I still need to: 1: Buy and install the innards 2: Buy a monitor 3: Resist or give in to the urge to paint the monitor 4: Put it on a desk      
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May 31, 2015 00:26
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klen dool posted:Here is some of my desktop - I still need to: Nice shirtless selfie dude on your case(?)
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May 31, 2015 02:10
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DethMarine21 posted:Finally finished upgrading all my peripherals; should be set for a while now. Welp, here's what 3 years of "progress" looks like.  I love having a vertical 16:10 monitor; it makes reading
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May 31, 2015 02:40
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Nice shirtless selfie dude on your case(?) Hahaha really - that looks like a topless guy? I guess I know the original photo - its a top-ful woman taking a selfie.
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I've had this Ikea Jerker desk for more than ten years and always had this pivoting shelf with it. Up until now, it's basically been my inbox, meaning that it's covered in papers and ignored. For ten years. I finally decided to lower it a bit and turn it into a poor man's standing desk. I'm sure it doesn't meet the ergonomic requirements of a good standing desk (laptop display nowhere near eye level, for one), but it's still a quick way to move to my feet and keep working. I'll have to fiddle with the height. One good thing about this desk is that the table top can be set at any height (~2" invervals), but you have to practically disassemble the entire thing first. The top is also pretty deep, around 30". It's a drat shame Ikea discontinued it in favor of less flexible, cheaper models. This was $200 new. If I ever had to replace it, those spiffy workbenches in this thread are very drool-worthy, and the depth I'm used to can be pretty much made up with a monitor arm and pulling it away from the wall. I really like the idea of shoving the monitor the gently caress out of the way so I can use it as a writing desk, anyway. edit: 
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DethMarine21 posted:Welp, here's what 3 years of "progress" looks like. Shattered Horizon mousepad? Do people still play that (please tell me yes)?
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OtherworldlyInvader posted:Shattered Horizon mousepad? Do people still play that (please tell me yes)? Yup. I used to play it a ton but the number of players slowly declined. The last update added single player modes and bot support so I would say it's dead at this point. 
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  Proud of this little setup for two reasons - originally the desk had the table on the right side, but that wouldn't have fit well in this corner, so I swapped it and moved the little sliding keyboard rest to the opposite side. Secondly - installed hooks to elevate my laptop and give me back the square footage on the desk. I take it with me when I travel and it's no big deal to just unplug everything and pull it out when needed. The chair - I've gone through two different padded desk chairs and a bosu ball, but for some reason nothing is as comfy for me as this wooden dining room chair that I've had with me for years now 
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klen dool posted:Hahaha really - that looks like a topless guy? I guess I know the original photo - its a top-ful woman taking a selfie.  What's the story behind that? I'm genuinely curious as to why it's on your PC case.
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klen dool posted:Hahaha really - that looks like a topless guy? I guess I know the original photo - its a top-ful woman taking a selfie. Yeah, I thought it was a topless dude, too.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:
Its my missus, taking a selfie while we were on holiday in Hawaii - I took the photo while she was taking the photo, and I think she is very pretty in the photo, so I stencilled her on my computer case Making a stencil out of a photo was way way easier than I though it would be.Hughmoris posted:Yeah, I thought it was a topless dude, too. I don't think Ill tell her that haha - Is the stencil really that ambiguous?
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klen dool posted:I don't think Ill tell her that haha - Is the stencil really that ambiguous? Looked like a dude to me too. After being told it's a woman and taking a longer look I can start to see the feminine features, but at a glance it's still more like a dude. 
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klen dool posted:I don't think Ill tell her that haha - Is the stencil really that ambiguous? From the thumbnail, it looked like a shirtless dude with 80s hair, but it looks fine in the full-size image so I'm sure it looks fine in real life
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If the internet has taught me anything, its that you should never post pictures of your girlfriend on the internet unless she is a solid 10.
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why would you stencil a picture of your girlfriend on a computer case?
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Photex posted:why would you stencil a picture of your girlfriend on a computer case? Why not? gently caress it, it's his case.
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Photex posted:why would you stencil a picture of your girlfriend on a computer case? How do humans work? Beep boop
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Photex posted:why would you stencil a picture of your girlfriend on a computer case? Well, I wanted to stencil something - and I didn't want to do something really nerdy like mario or a band logo or something. I spent ages looking around for stencils or images that I could stencil, and when I saw the photo I thought it was cool looking. Also, its kinda complicated and really stretched my ability. I guess it is a little weird maybe, but I like how it turned out, and its better than some random person I don't know on there, and it reminds me of the time we went to Hawaii together and stood on lava flows and that's a good memory. I stencilled the gas mask on the other side, because I really like gas masks. There is a sense of futility with gas masks, and they are ominous - its a device that shouldn't need to exist (outside of fire fighters). Also, I like playing stalker so it fits that need to have something game related on the case without overtly stencilling the stalker logo. Laserface posted:If the internet has taught me anything, its that you should never post pictures of your girlfriend on the internet unless she is a solid 10. Agreed, but I thought gently caress it and took the risk. We are all adults here, and its not an overtly sexual pose. Also, its a stencil not a real life photo - its a little more abstract than a photo. Accretionist posted:From the thumbnail, it looked like a shirtless dude with 80s hair, but it looks fine in the full-size image so I'm sure it looks fine in real life phew! isndl posted:Looked like a dude to me too. After being told it's a woman and taking a longer look I can start to see the feminine features, but at a glance it's still more like a dude. I guess that is the nature of stencils - it really is a process of subtraction, removing features until there is just enough left to describe the scene. Perhaps I took away to much! I probably could have made sure the feminine features were more detailed, the face and boobs mainly I suppose. Its really hard, since its pretty subjective - I know her face, so that stencil looks like her to me. You don't know what she looks like, so you can only see what you can see. Thanks for the feedback  Next time I do some stencilling, I'll know where I can improve. Another improvement I could make is the actual process of getting the image onto the case - here is the process I followed:
Things I learnt:
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klen dool posted:
ARE YOU MY MOMMY?
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TheresaJayne posted:ARE YOU MY MOMMY? Yep, I sure am. Now clean your teeth and go to bed - you've got school in the morning.
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klen dool posted:Yep, I sure am. Now clean your teeth and go to bed - you've got school in the morning.  Sorry, I can't really recommend Doctor Who, but it's from that show.
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Wasabi the J posted:
Oooooooooooooh of course, the gas masks growing out of faces in ww2 era London - whoosh indeed.
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klen dool posted:Yep, I sure am. Now clean your teeth and go to bed - you've got school in the morning. That would be true if i was a teacher, as it is I work in the Computer industry (I remember Tom Baker as the Doctor - and not from reruns)
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jebeebus posted:Just moved and this is the hot mess I'm working with so far...  Coming together a bit more. Got a BenQ XL2720T to use as main monitor; put Dell in portrait and got rid of the Asus. Next thing I want to upgrade are the speakers; had these Swans M200s for nearly 10 years now, but they're not too great for mixing/monitoring. Cable management has improved by approximately 2.4% 
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A professional painter will tell you to do several light coats, like you mentioned, and then a final thick coat to dry for the night. The first couple coats act like sticky fingers that grab onto the final coat, or that's how the painter I knew described it. Who knows what is actually happening, but it works.
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Comatoast posted:A professional painter will tell you to do several light coats, like you mentioned, and then a final thick coat to dry for the night. The first couple coats act like sticky fingers that grab onto the final coat, or that's how the painter I knew described it. Who knows what is actually happening, but it works. Oh okay, that does make sense I guess I actually just painting my dvd drive face today, hopefully I'll be able to take and post pics tomorrow of my setup
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Yay finally got everything set up nicely: Close up of the case with painted optical drive:  Where I sit when I use a controller:  Where I sit when I use a keyboard and mouse:  A close up of the monitor on the left - a reclaimed laptop monitor:  This is what I got:
I'll upgrade with an SSD later, when they get cheaper.
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klen dool posted:I'll upgrade with an SSD later, when they get cheaper. They're so loving cheap and the best thing you can do to your system. Stop being lazy/a cheapskate; you'll do it and wonder how you lived without them.
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Wasabi the J posted:They're so loving cheap and the best thing you can do to your system. Stop being lazy/a cheapskate; you'll do it and wonder how you lived without them. That one is not cheap, its 1nzd per GB. I can get a one terabyte for 100nzd which is 10cents a GB. The performance for the cost just isn't worth it - and I am saying that as someone with a 128gb ssd in a chromebook (running Linux) and a 500gb Intel ssd in his work computer. It's not lazyness, nor is it being a cheapskate - its just not worth it.
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klen dool posted:The performance for the cost just isn't worth it
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Eh, don't listen to 'em, they'll only get cheaper and you'll soon be tripping over them. They are hella good though. And cheap!
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