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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/

Drew DeVault: https://usesthis.com/interviews/drew.devault/

Naomi Wu: https://usesthis.com/interviews/naomi.wu/

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You can't really see it in my article there, I use a rolling cart with my laptops (Apple or Xiaomi depending): https://i.imgur.com/0OB23tw.jpg

Better look: https://i.imgur.com/ydgpMus.jpg

I avoid having a desk surface because it just gets overwhelmed with crap. This way I can't just set things down- they need to be put somewhere. Also I can move it out of the way for shooting YouTube videos, roll near the window when I want more daylight, roll near the printers when I am tweaking them etc.

It looks neat and cool but I prefer a sturdy surface than the flimsy coat hanger

Yeah there's a bit of wobble, I could see that annoying some people.

It is crazy that we have some trade war and xenophobia going on at the moment, I think your channel and comments here are helpful in challenging assumptions commonly held in the West.

I have a rig like yours with a hospital style adjustable height table that has wheels and can be used in a bed (if need be) to pile the junk on. The lip around the edge of the table top stops small things rolling off, plus it has a cup holder, unlike most tables.

I will be subscribing even though your content is not my normal fayre and I commend you for making the world that bit more interesting and surprising!

Thanks Theodores! It's a bit crazy, I'm trying to be very, very careful...

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 deeply integrated with my email. I wish that everyone had perfectionist levels of attention to detail.

Phones are much, much faster, NAS’s (synology for example) allow you to merge a whole bunch of drives on a network. And Iterm is integrated with tmux, which makes it feel supremely native.

Not sure about the todo or attention to detail though.

Org mode is a great answer for the todo wish.

I think most “to do” / productivity software integrstes with email these days (ie Asana has plugins for both GMail and Outlook and I think lots do), and slightly related emails has also become more easily “actionable” when Mailbox created the whole “swipe to action” email gestures that Apple and google then learned from etc.

Derek Sivers' interview (founder of CDBaby) was the one thing that got me into Linux for the first time years ago (and Arch Linux even). Since then it's been my primary OS.

https://usesthis.com/interviews/derek.sivers/

I enjoyed Joey Hess's interview on there.

https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/

An interesting juxtaposition of working on technology in a decidedly austere living arrangement.

Thanks!

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