The working from home thread: tips and advice

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Yeah, but my hand/wrists no longer hurt, so I dont care.

I've been using one of those Kensington trackballs for, shit, nearly 20 years. They are great. Your wrist no longer hurts, no one can casually use your workstation and basic bitches can make hilarious 'jokes' about it.
What's not so great is when someone hides the ball as classic office prank (see above) over lockdown and then clearly forgets where it is and you have to buy a new mouse.

Maybe I'm missing something, but haven't you highlighted why mouse pads should be made from mouspad material?

I can imagine felt looks nice, but it's not suitable. Any normal mouse pad will be fine. I use one of those big gaming ones now as it makes the desk more comfortable and also the keyboard quieter.

Speaking of trackballs. I've completed Quake II with the default gun using this

No, it's just a well made mousemat in the end. 👍

I've completed Quake II with the default gun using this

#rep

My good lady has tried to add an additional screen to her laptop. But since a recent update was completed it won’t detect the secondary screen. Any ideas why and what to do about it would be appreciated

there's often an FN and screen toggle button combo on laptops to turn screen sharing on or off. have a look along the top row of function keys maybe an update turned it back to off by default or something.

HDMI?

It can be finicky about when it's plugged in. Try turning it off and waiting until boot before plugging in. Try again with it plugged in before turning on. Things like that.

If you are in Windows, go into display settings and poke around to see if it can detect it. Then unplug and try again.

Yeah normally looks like a little rectagle, maybe with a couple of vertical lines next to it. It will noramly cycle between PC only, dual screen, second screen only. That kind of thing.

How is it connected? Dongles are notoriously finickity.

DVI to hdmi. Tried several cables with my laptop and hers. Mines worked every time, hers none of the time.

Are there any other video outputs you could use, e.g USB/DisplayPort/VGA?
You could also try rolling back the update.
It's also possible the port has failed.

Has anyone used a Rode VideoMic Go ii (or any shotgun mic) for a shared office space?

I’m sick of my headset, the earphones are shite, and the mic bleeds like mad and picks up my girlfriend sitting opposite when she's on her own calls.

I know shotguns are supposed to be highly directional and I’m sure the quality will be much higher, but thought I’d check here before i bite the bullet

Rant warning.
My bosses bosses bosses boss has decided that we need to be in 3 days a week to improve collaboration and creativity.

The person who's never graced us with her presence gets to decide on a whim that she wants to see bums on seats to justify the corporate rent.

Cheers mate. Good luck policing that, I shall not be a rat to no-one.

Probably not the time or the place but I think you need some apostrophes for your bosses.

Domn it Jim, i'm a designer not a copywriter!

A shotgun mic used indoors will still pickup background noise due to the reverb in the room. Especially if it is not very close the source (less than a foot).

Have suggested a setup with good noise rejection in this post - https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16970272/

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Projection is wireless display I think rather than wired.

Not the best picture but I can’t figure out which is the right one

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Does anything helpful happen if you press win+p?

Hmm cheers, good food for thought that. I reckon I can get it around/within a foot so the gain can stay pretty low.

But that said, I already have an interface so the Behringer is a much more affordable setup

Fn + F1 I'd say. Maybe F2.

Although I'd go on the desktop, right click and display settings.