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Thorsten Ball: My Setup, April 2024

Last week I got a new monitor, after my old one has shown worse and worse signs of what looked like burn-ins. The new monitor allowed me to get rid of two (!) cables in my setup, which pleased me quite a bit. And since there are people reading this whose eyebrows went up at the “two cables”, I thought I’d use this as an occasion to write about

Last point is a bit of a pain in the butt (like the chair was, yes): whenever I switch computers, I have to turn the audio interface on again, which means I’m in a lot of calls in which people say “thorsten? I don’t listen to a lot of music anymore when working, but in a house with two small kids the barely-perceptible hum of the active noise cancelling doing its job is one of the sweeter sounds in my life. But I won it in a quiz at Sourcegraph (which is also why there’s a Sourcegraph logo on it), so no, I didn’t spend money on a smart mug, but yes, I’ve been using it every day since then and the battery is often empty and I forget to recharge it but when it’s charged and I forget to drink my coffee and get a push notification that says “Your coffee has reached perfect temperature” I feel a bit embarrassed but also happy.

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