The working from home thread: tips and advice

Lenovo screen seems good. Definitely good enough for work. The thin bezel is a bit cheeky, as while it is thin there's a black boarder around the edge of the screen effectively doubling the bezel size.

Next up is to find out what the right W I need is to power my laptop from the USB hub so I've only got one cable to plug in/out.

Deal: USB C Charger 90W Compatible for Dell Latitude 5280 5480 5580 7280 7480 7380 3390 5175 5179 5285 5289 7212 7275 7285 XPS 13 9350 9365 9370 12 9250 9550 Power Adapter & Power Cable https://amzn.eu/d/hsR9NPS

Just wanted to say I bought one of these a month ago (from Argos) based on your recommendation and it's pretty amazing, especially today! The biggest thing is that it's quiet so you can have it on longer/at higher speeds.

We have no curtians in our new home yet, used a tip I saw online to help keep the front (south facing) side of our house cool and taped tinfoil over them. Cardboard was phyically hot to the touch but this seems to work far better.

also stops 5g!

user @spotter in one months time

When I used to work nights I just got some of that curtain backing material (kinda plastic coated fabric?) and draped that over the whole window (maybe stapled it or taped it so there was no gappage, can't remember)

Yeah, the Duux Whisper fan is just incredible.

Left it on overnight on the lowest setting, running on battery, and it was totally silent and created a lovely breeze over the bed all night even from the other side of the room.

Now if only my aircon was as silent (I've given up using just fans when the temp goes over 27'c indoors).

The window films that i had installed are making a massive difference the last few days.

Also I have a Meaco pedestal fan in the living room which is outstanding.

purchased a maeco 650 last week and it’s been a godsend in this heat, just have it in the hallway wafting air into bedroom and lounge during the day and on a low setting directed to the bed overnight.
glad i didn’t get the 1056 as it’s bigger than i expected and probably overkill

Still just closing curtains. #nofans

I did have an icepack on my face but that was for other reasons.

That's a really good idea. I put old cardboard moving boxes against the windows in our kids rooms and pulled the curtains. May foil wrap them tomorrow.

Downstairs in the dining room where I'm working I've put the old ply board back of an ikea cupboard against one half of the French doors. Luckily I've been hanging on to it because, "you never know when it might come in handy". Plus some trellis I still haven't got round to putting up.

Very much a Nottingham crack house vibe going on right now.

Also I went outside to water the patio to see if that would help. Standing in the direct sun with 3 walls and a floor bouncing heat at me wasn't a good idea. I'm now absolutely buzzing and feel like I'm coming up.

Not quite the head space I envisaged to start python training.

Our south facing bedroom was unbareable, so I dug out the end of a roll of that foil sandwich bubble wrap stuff. Proper grow house vibe, but given we just had thin cardboard before its hugely better.

My mum is currently making curtians and as soon as I get the new seals on the windows I'll UV tint them too.

Yes!

I've got a load of that I still haven't used. Cheers for that.

We do also have shit double glazing, so that is helping a bit.

I will say foil worked pretty well too just on its own, I guess its a bit shiner so it reflects more heat but doesnt insulate as much

Hey, bit of a noob question, but can the portable monitor be plugged into a mains charger whilst also being used as a second screen. I realise you could just plug the laptop in, but I was wondering whether that might make it run hot...

I've never had issues with charging my laptop whilst using a portable monitor. Power draw on mine is 1.3A @ 5V which is pretty low compared to the total laptop power. It's only like having a phone plugged in to your laptop.

I think so. Definitely I can plug it in and use with HDMI (which doesn't deliver power). Some of them like the Lenovo m14 will take power and pass through to the laptop.

Monitor plugged in to laptop, working within Citrix, why is teams only showing me as having one big monitor rather than two?

Because teams.

Had to use Teams recently

• Linux app is fucked
  
• Firefox is unsupported
  
• installed Chrome, Teams goes into an authorisation redirect loop
  
  

Gave up there when the last remaining solution was to install Edge and said email me instead. My colleague runs an entire VM just for Teams. What a piece of shit.

I use it on Chrome on Android and run it in Desktop Mode.

Why are you using Teams on Linux? I'm surprised they even have a Linux app.

for reasons I don't understand, teams requires third party cookies (if you have those disabled you get the auth redirect in chrome/brave)

Double sided tape and offcuts from the garage for a screen riser. Got a usb hub but MacBook can’t really handle pushing to the 4k - fans a go go 😣 will have to buy a new machine at some point

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