Commander X16

A "just for fun" thread where you take a screenshot of your primary desktop and share it!

Personally, I use a dual 1080P display setup, but my secondary is mainly used for system and server monitoring.

Here is mine (scaled down): ?

That wallpaper is awesome :)

Mine is admittedly a little esoteric.

It's a Toni Bratincevic image, called "16 Bit Memories". One of my favorites. :)

https://www.artstation.com/intercepto

Nice! I like "hardware" style wallpapers like that. I use Commodore ones a lot.

2 hours ago, Strider said:

A "just for fun" thread where you take a screenshot of your primary desktop and share it!



Personally, I use a dual 1080P display setup, but my secondary is mainly used for system and server monitoring.



Here is mine (scaled down): ?

Dude, PAINT SHOP PRO ROCKS!!!!!!!!!

 

OK, my primary monitor is kind of boring (it's of a park near my parents' home), but the auxiliary monitor is the cover art from Yes' album "Pathways", and it's spectacular.

I'd post it, but I might be violating copyrights?

 

Am I doing it right?



Dell P4317Q display: Worth every penny, in spite of a quirk. The furthest left and right edges of the screen can be difficult to see if not viewed straight-on, this effectively truncates ~4 pixel columns from either side of the 4K display.

Logitech G403 mouse: Also worth every penny, can't recommend this enough unless you're the type that wants a gojillion buttons.

Logitech G810 keyboard: I'd take a hard pass on this in the future. Feels nice, per-key coloring is fancy-pants, but the keycaps use the flimsiest plastic legs ever and my Ctrl keys regularly break. What's worse is that it seems they're breaking more quickly with time, so instead of pouring a subscription fee into maintaining this, I'll be retiring it once my current batch of replacement keys are broken.

Logitech G Pro headset: Acceptable, but I'm worried the cable is giving out. I miss the Astro A20s that I still have at the office workstation, but the A20s have some kind of electrical problem with my house audio setup which results in a buzzing in both speakers and mic. I suspect a grounding problem has developed with my ancient Bose 2.1 speaker system---speakers I love enough that I refuse to get rid of them in spite of having all manner of failing cables that I'm afraid to touch and sometimes get out of whack just from the subwoofer's bass.

On 11/3/2020 at 2:30 PM, rje said:

Dude, PAINT SHOP PRO ROCKS!!!!!!!!!

It gets the job done for me. I use a much older version than my wife, but I love it. ?

On 11/3/2020 at 3:33 PM, StephenHorn said:

Am I doing it right?

Hey, whatever works! If we're sharing our actual desk area, then here ya go. It's a bit of an older pic than of my Windows desktop above. ?

My desk is basically all function, no form. What you can't see if the server sitting on the floor to the left, but that's why there's a 2nd mouse sitting on my desk. I remote into it 90% of the time, but sometimes I need direct access.

Also, I like case badges/stickers/magnets, if you can't tell. lol



 

 

My computers' desktops are not very interesting, and have too many file names I'd need to hide or blur out.  I change the photo with every season, right now it's an autumn scene.

But here's my physical desktop:





The actual desk is a glass door that was once one of a pair at the entrance to a men's wear shop in Detroit.  My grandmother worked there, and when the storefront got remodeled my dad had the idea to take one of the doors to use as his worktable.  He used it for many decades for his hobby of repairing antique clocks.  I inherited it when he moved across the country and couldn't bring it, and now it holds my various computers.

The C64 I rescued already had that weird after-market plastic cover over the keys (it flips up).  I hated it at first but, to be fair, it does keep dust and sunlight off the keys!  Barely visible (not very well lit, under the window) is the PE6502 kit.

Not sure where I'm going to fit the X16; probably under the desk. The case is so pretty though, I might have to make space up top.

Here is my desktop on my Raspberry Pi 4 B 8GB RAM with two screens and Raspberry Pi OS. I have the official red and white Raspberry Pi Keyboard and Mouse, and the official power supply, and the official red and white case, which is too hot so I have to run it with the lid off. I should buy a passive cooling case, but it has to work with WiFi, e.g. the FLIRC case. I also have a laptop with Windows 10 Home 20H2: LENOVO ideapad 100-15IBY and that also has an extra screen.



I run BOINC with COVID-19 research on this Raspberry Pi, and on two other Raspberry Pis -- that explains the rather high CPU load and temperature.

On 11/20/2020 at 4:51 PM, John Chow Seymour said:

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Nice! I often prefer "function over form", I always have. So your workspace looks perfectly normal to me. ?

I have seen other C64's in the past with dust covers like that one. I never had one personally, but I did used to put this fabric cover I had over it when I was not using it for any long period of time. It was made to fit the C64 to it just slipped right over it nice and snug.

Lastly, space is also my problem. I have a small desk and workspace, and it's already taken up by my main PC, 2 displays, a server PC, and various other random hardware and parts, as well as my tool sets. Still, where there's a will, there's a way. lol

18 hours ago, mobluse said:

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Very cool! I used to run BONIC a lot, but it's been several years. I was a big fan of Seti@Home.

I like seeing people running Raspberry Pi systems. I have the original B+ and a 3B+, had both since they were released. The old Model 1 B+ used to run Retropie for 16-bit and earlier console emulation, but the newer versions of Retropie run so slowly on it that I moved all my emulation to the much more capable 3B+, and I am able to easily push into the PS1/N64 era as well as much better arcade emulation. The 3B+ is also a very capable Steam Link device, also via Retropie. That's what I have installed in that Retroflag MegaPi case you see on my desk in the photo above. Not to mention, Wi-Fi makes SFTP so much more convenient. 

I have been looking at the Pi 400, but to be honest, the more I look at it, the more I think I would enjoy a Model 4B 4GB or 8GB instead. Same basic hardware configuration anyway, but with the 4B I save space, and as you can see on my desk photo, I really don't have room for a 400. I also already have all the other necessary peripherals, plus I get to put it in my own choice of case since it's the standard Pi 4 form factor. lol

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