So we are finally all setup to work from home now. They want someone in the office 24/7 though so based on shifts we have someone there. One 12h day/night person stays at office with everyone at home. Downside of this is having to drag PC back and forth from home to work when you switch to a different shift. To save myself a bit of trouble I bought myself 2 28" 4k monitors. Been wanting to upgrade to 4k at home anyway... so it was an excuse to do so. That way my 3 work 4ks stay at work, and at home I can manage with only 2, since the 12h shift guy will open everything while at home we only really need to open what we watch as we divide the tasks. Normally at work we just all open everything anyway but we compromise now working at home. Some people brought one of their work 4ks and will just use 2 at work, some brought everything. Everyone kind of did what they felt was best. I'm the one with no kids that can afford to just go and buy 2 4k monitors. Freaking millennials right?
Only worked 2 at home shifts so far since I was working from the office for a bit, but I have to say this is pretty awesome. I wish it became the norm tbh. Not the pandemic
Just working from home.
I also took the opportunity to redo my cabling setup at home. This is what my setup looks like now:
Centre monitor is just a 1K and acts as the primary for work, home and gaming machine so I can use KVM, and right now the two vertical ones are my new 4ks which are dedicated to work.
I could not get 4k out of the work PC if I use display port to HDMI which I need for the KVM so that's why I went that way. Kinda works out anyway since all the stuff that's important is always up while I can be watching YT videos or chatting on forums etc on the middle one.
The other side monitor was originally going to be for just putting on a news stream or whatever but I never realized how slow the Raspberry PI (even 3) is for actual normal usage as a desktop and it will barely do anything. I have a 4 that was originally going to be to replace the one hooked up to my TV but I might keep it for up here instead. Will have a separate mouse so I can be KVMed to the work PC the majority of time and do my browsing or show watching on that one. Still ironing out a few things to make quality of life better but overall it's working out. Really loving working from home.