HACKER Q&A
📣 jesuscript

What does your battle station look like?


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


  👤 BlameKaneda Accepted Answer ✓
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



👤 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.)


👤 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.