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Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:32:06 -0800

Andy from
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Post your work setups

Yeah, mine is crazy but it's super effective.  Dual 8K screens with a special
order Nvidia A6000 GPU, plus a 90 TB RAID 5 with dual actuator hard drives for
maximum performance, all in a rolling military-grade rack case.  I'm 10x more
productive with this than a normal computer, which makes sense because it costs
more than 10x a normal computer.  Worth it.
https://www.raellic.com/images/case.png
https://www.andrewwatters.com/law/office/Andy-office.jpg


Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:36:05 -0800

moisture2
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Jesus Christ those are some huge ass monitors.


Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:36:59 -0800

Andy from
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65 inch 8K televisions make great monitors...lol.


Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:42:37 -0800

Wily from
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Microsoft Surface Studio Laptop. The ability to convert into a tablet for stylus
use and Zoom, while not having the dinky detachable keyboard of the surface,
makes it really good for me.


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:05:13 -0800

cowgod from
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Is that also your Posting rig?


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 06:17:43 -0800

Andy from
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@cowgodTest I do all my programming on this rig, since it runs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and that works best for me.  I do most of my posting on
my laptop at my home office outside of work hours.


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:06:40 -0800

Blee from
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Ancient Dell laptop and a couple of HP monitors. More importantly, B&O sound
system playing mostly instrumental jazz through the day. I need something to
drown out my tinnitus, but anything lyrical or with much energy is too
distracting.


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:09:55 -0800

Blee from
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And Andy, those monitors remind me of mom saying "don't sit so close to the
screen, you'll go blind!"


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:09:58 -0800

Andy from
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@BleeTest I added Adam Audio studio monitors after the above
picture was taken.  This is the greatest way to listen to music in the office,
and I hear things in Zoom calls now that I didn't hear before, like the fine
nuance in someone's fearful voice.  It's been interesting.


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:11:10 -0800

Andy from
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Haha, the screens are far enough away and the resolution is high enough that it
works great for me.  My healthcare provider for my wrist injury looked at my
setup and said it looks great except for me resting my wrist on the edge of the
desk.


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:11:41 -0800

Blee from
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Ha, that's interesting. I don't run my meetings through the system, maybe I
should! I just route them to a little Teams speaker with a gate running so I can
still have the music in the background.


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:14:05 -0800

Andy from
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I forgot to mention the pro-level podcast microphone that I have now.  The audio
quality is way better than with the webcam, plus I can do podcasts via Open
Broadcast Studio.  The mic is tastefully visible in all my Zoom calls with the
Shure logo, haha.  I'll get an updated photo on there at some point.


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:29:22 -0800

moisture2
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Blee did u get ur tinitus from ur years spent playing in rock bands?


Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:13:59 -0800

Blee from
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Well yes it did happen back then, but ironically I suppose it wasn't show I
performed. I went to see a friend's band, and the sound engineer was known to
mix with too much high end. I didn't wear ear plugs ever really, so when I got
home from a show my ears would often ring until I woke up the next day. This
time they never stopped. I thought it would drive me insane for the first month
or so, but you eventually get used to it. I only really hear it when I think
about it now.


Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:22:54 -0800

shithead
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I've got two laptops (one PC, one Mac), an iPad with folding stand, two phones
(one Android with US phone number, one iPhone with Portugal phone number) two
travel monitors, and a drawstring bag full of peripherals and powerstrips and
cables and adapters. I run my substantive work on one station, and usually a
foreign-language doc review gig on the other. It all fits into a shoulder bag
and small backpack. I can set up the two stations in about five minutes. Usually
I work from accommodations or coworking space, preferably at a standing desk.
Back at home in Funchal, I usually have my standing desk set up on the balcony,
where I grow lots of orchids.


Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:37:27 -0800

Andy from
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@shitheadTest what is your substantive work?  Are you able to
survive in Europe from that work?  I was toying with the idea of working from a
cruise ship, but I'm not sure I want to spend that kind of money on internet
every day when every byte counts and I tend to gorge on video.


Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:06:48 -0800

shithead
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@AndyTest Affirmative immigration. On my own, and with other
small practitioners, I do a lot of EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, O-1, and E-2 visas. As a
contractor for law firms, I do a lot of PERMs and L-1 visas.

It's a good living.


Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:54:02 -0800

Andy from
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That's great, it sounds like your work is very portable.  The only problem with
my work is that I can't be a digital nomad for several reasons.  First, since I
own my law firm, the clients are always coming in to meet me, not the other
lawyers who work here.  It's a lot more effective meeting them in real life than
on a 2D Zoom session-- I close 99% of clients who visit my office.  Second,
trials and hearings are inherently an in-person thing-- it's awkward when one
side is in person and the other is on Zoom, even assuming their internet
connections are all good enough to sustain a Zoom trial, which often isn't the
case.  Third, I run my own email and web servers, and they are on-premise at my
office.  I have to be within a 30-mile radius of my office just in case, unless
I want to spend hundreds of dollars a month on an I.T. support contract where
all they do anyway is push a button on the equipment.  My work-from-cruise-ship
fantasy is just that-- a pipe dream considering the actual work I do.  But hey,
it's an idea and a world voyage would be amazing under the right circumstances. 
Can't do Zoom court on a low-bandwidth satellite connection, though...sigh.


Sat, 10 Feb 2024 07:24:46 -0800

shithead
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Yeah, my practice follows the lifestyle I want, not the other way around. I meet
clients all the time via Google Meet or Zoom. A high percentage of them are
outside the United States, so they don't expect in-person meetings. The
exception is in Portugal, which has a high rate of emigration to the United
States. I've been based there (I'm in Spain at the moment) since September, and
it's a rich market for what I do. I have to travel to Lisbon fairly often to
close clients, but that's really the only time I have in-person meetings.
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