Evgeni Golov: show your desk
Some days ago I posted a picture of my desk on Mastodon and Twitter.
After that I got multiple questions about the setup, so I thought "Michael and Michael did posts about their setups, you could too!"
And well, here we are ;-)
desk
The desk is a Flexispot E5B frame with a 200 80 2.6cm oak table top.
The Flexispot E5 (the B stands for black) is a rather cheap (as in not expensive) standing desk frame. It has a retail price of 379 , but you can often get it as low as 299 on sale.
Add a nice table top from a local store (mine was like 99 ), a bit of wood oil and work and you get a nice standing desk for less than 500 .
The frame has three memory positions, but I only use two: one for sitting, one for standing, and a "change position" timer that I never used so far.
The table top has a bit of a swing when in standing position (mine is at 104cm according to the electronics in the table), but not enough to disturb typing on the keyboard or thinking. I certainly wouldn't place a sewing machine up there, but that was not a requirement anyways ;)
To compare: the IKEA Bekant table has a similar, maybe even slightly stronger swing.
chair
Speaking of IKEA The chair is an IKEA Volmar. They don't seem to sell it since mid 2019 anymore though, so no link here.
hardware
laptop
A Lenovo ThinkPad T480s, i7-8650U, 24GB RAM, running Fedora 32 Workstation. Just enough power while not too big and heavy. Full of stickers, because I stickers!
It's connected to a Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Dock (Gen 1). After 2 years with that thing, I'm still not sure what to think about it, as I had various issues with it over the time:
- the internal USB hub just vanishing from existence until a full power cycle of the dock was performed, but that might have been caused by my USB-switch which I recently removed.
- the NIC negotiating at 100MBit/s instead of 1000MBit/s and then keeping on re-negotiating every few minutes, disconnecting me from the network, but I've not seen that since the Fedora 32 upgrade.
- the USB-attached keyboard not working during boot as it needs some Thunderbolt magic.