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Quick question for everyone who wasn't fully remote before march:

What kind of setup did your company provide? Did you have nice ergonomic chairs/desks? Monitors higher res than 1080p? Mechanical keyboards? How powerful was your workstation?

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    Before March:
    - i7, 32GB, 1TB Laptop
    - Dual 1920x1080 monitors
    - chair
    - desk + draws
    - good light levels
    - nice city views!
    - 1 hour commute

    - Now:
    - same laptop
    - 1 shitty 1920x1080 monitor with a bad backlight and horrendous color / contrast levels.
    - shitty chair
    - desk that's to low
    - bad light
    - same old view of my front yard
    - 0.5 second commute.
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    I should probably put mine out there if I'm asking others

    i7 16gb laptop
    mesh chair
    non adjustable desk
    adjustable monitor stands
    2 1080p monitors
    quality membrane keyboard
    fantastic natural light and air quality

    Since march I've kitted out my home setup with 2x 1440p monitors and I don't know if I can go back to 1080. The main reason I ask is I want to know if anyone out there has 1440p monitors at work. A lot of workplaces are weird about byo hardware too. So oftentimes you're just stuck with whatever they got a nice deal on from the hardware wholesaler
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    I choose the hardware, so naturally everyone gets good shit:

    - loaded Lenovo x1 gen 2 extremes, 1tb nvme, 64gb
    - 2x 16:10 1440p 28"
    - desks deep enough to accommodate them
    - tb3 dock
    - nice private office in a wework facility
    - swag computer backpack (timbuk2 authority, no $40 dell swissgear neckbeard special)
    - rocketbook
    - personal jetbrains APP license (one of our perks)
    - decent enough chairs, no one seems to care about that on our team

    I just let everyone take their shit home when we broke for covid.
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    I had a regular low end laptop, bought myself a nice chair and noise cancelling headphones. One of the companies I worked for later sent a nice high end laptop later.
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    MacBook Pro. Decently powerful but the exact specs slip my mind at the moment. At work I had 2 4k monitors, an okay-but-not-amazing chair, and I was just using one of those Apple wireless keyboards and a touchpad. I had the option to request a sit/stand desk but didn't, because I had one at my previous job and rarely bothered standing.

    After going remote, I kept the laptop and that's about it. I have my own 4k monitor at home but I don't use it for work. I have a crappy chair that I've been meaning to replace and I'm usually just working with the laptop and no other peripherals.
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    Chairs - normal. Desks - ergo. Mech kbd - ...Why...? Ofc no. Monitors >1080 - no: I had 2x 1920v1080px.

    Lappy: dell precision 5xxx-something. I7 hexacore, 32G ram, 512ssd

    although I've capped my cpu to 3.1ghz -- 4.6 causes thermal issues far too often. Also I don't need that much horsepower with Linux anyway.

    Lots of office perks
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    None. Still expected to work at the office.
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