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Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by arendtio »

istjohn wrote: post #91
arendtio wrote: post #87

I am a bit surprised there is no vertical multi-monitor setup there yet. I have my 2nd monitor above my first since a few years now and I don't want to go back to the traditional horizontal layout. The only thing I might change is adding more monitors or increasing sizes, but that isn't really a priority as I tend to have enough space most of the time. However, I love the idea, of this site as the photos offer a bett…

I tried a vertical monitor for a day once, but I found I ended up holding my head at an uncomfortably high angle too much.

Actually, my lower monitor is my primary monitor for my desktop PC. But for a while, I used a similar setup with a Thinkpad as my lower monitor and that worked just fine for me too even though I used the large upper monitor as the primary monitor then.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by daniel-cussen »

dijit wrote: post #94
PascLeRasc wrote: post #35

If anyone's really into "setups", I'd highly recommend checking out usesthis.com. There's some great discussion on why people like certain tools, and some high-profile people on there from all walks of tech life (writers, podcasters, musicians, mechanical engineers). Here's a few of my favorites: Aaron Schwartz: https://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.swartz/ Mike Hoye (Mozilla): https://usesthis.com/interviews/mhoye/…

The improvements section/conclusion in Aaron Schwartz article is actually very possible today. >I wish all my hard drives were consolidated onto one big drive. I wish I had SoundSticks. I wish my G1 was much, much faster. I wish that Terminal would have built-in support for screen so that different screens would appear as tabs and it would auto-reconnect. I wish that there was decent todo management software that dee…

Org mode is a great answer for the todo wish.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by tomjakubowski »

sitkack wrote: post #90
arendtio wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kinda surprising, as many web-applications forget to add that meta-data after e.g. resizing photos. Still, not a good idea to upload pictures with GPS data to an online service (unintentionally).

iOS includes it by default.

It disappoints me that there apparently isn't an option on iOS to track photo location using some scheme other than EXIF. I really like being able to organize photos by location on my phone, but I dislike relying on image hosts and social networks to strip EXIF data when I post them to the web. Couldn't iOS store locations for photos it's taken out of band, in a sqlite db or something?

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by novok »

dope wrote: post #20
wa1987 wrote: post #17

Something's up with the retrieval of images. Getting errors (402 status code) from Firebase storage / Google. — EDIT: seems to be fixed! Fun project though! What are your plans with it? Like to hear about your ideas. Some – unsolicited – suggestions (feel free to ignore): - describing (primary) usage(s) – e.g. workstation, gaming, web dev, music, audio, etc. - describing setup components by selecting items from a par…

These are great suggestions, thank you and it's exactly what I've posted it for tbh - It feels like this project could have endless possibilities but I also want to know what others care about too. My next steps (I posted below but happy to post here too) - Multiple image upload support - Like setups - Build collections out of setups - Search (tags, product names, setup titles etc) - Tagging products on setups (like…

+1 for comments. Would like to be able to ask questions.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by sureaboutthis »

This has been around for years and you'll spend just as long trying to find something worth looking at and, perhaps, replicating. Most of them are just as drab and dreary as you'll find making the site, to some extent, pointless without doing any vetting for something unique.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by asark »

benatkin wrote: post #57
lkschubert8 wrote: post #39

Might need some moderation as an image in the first row was about as NSFW as could possibly be and not remotely related to computers.

Or to use some web service to detect nudity in images. I was getting my college degree during peak goatse and have gotten good at tuning out goatse, so it hasn't hurt my impression of the site. It's a great idea to bring usesthis to the masses, and I wish success for OP. I'd consider excluding things that are primarily gaming because there are already places for people to show off their gaming rigs (such as battlesta…

IIRC Google Cloud, Azure, and (least certain of this one) AWS have machine learning driven adult image detection (among other things, like recognizing famous people's faces) as a service.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by whenchamenia »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #103
sitkack wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS includes it by default.

It disappoints me that there apparently isn't an option on iOS to track photo location using some scheme other than EXIF. I really like being able to organize photos by location on my phone, but I dislike relying on image hosts and social networks to strip EXIF data when I post them to the web. Couldn't iOS store locations for photos it's taken out of band, in a sqlite db or something?

You can strip your own exif, there are many apps. Do not trust anyone else to do so, or not to keep that data for themselves even when they do. Cougfhaceboockough.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by wafflesraccoon »

781 wrote: post #76
grumpy-cowboy wrote: post #69

There is a lot of "fake" workstations: everything is so clean! No Fritos bag, no Coke bottles, no paper, no trash, ... just clean desks! Fake! lol :D

Here you go: https://workstation.is/station/4s1IHxshFb4BrTxTHjeG

Did you draw the figure drawing on the wall? It is wonderful.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by DoreenMichele »

wafflesraccoon wrote: post #109
781 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here you go: https://workstation.is/station/4s1IHxshFb4BrTxTHjeG

Did you draw the figure drawing on the wall? It is wonderful.

It's also kind of NSFW.

Hello, haters. A NSFW warning is a detail of etiquette on the internet. It has nothing to do with being judgy about the content. It is solely about protecting someone's job while they surf the internet.

Thanks.

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