Desk

Started: 2026-05-13 17:30:49

Submitted: 2026-05-13 19:35:10

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A snapshot of my home office, and some recent improvements

This is what my home office desk looked like at the end of the Rivos era:

Snapshot of Jaeger's desk at the end of an era

The most prominent feature on the desk are the two identical 27" 4k monitors, hooked into a KVM that lets me drive them from the M2 Mac Mini hidden on the desk or the powered USB-C dock that (approximately) works with both my work MacBook and my personal Thinkpad running Linux. (I say "approximately" because the MacBooks aren't able to drive the monitors hooked up to the dock, while my Thinkpad works fine.) I got the little pride flag at one of the pride events I attended and it turns out that it's visible in the back of my video calls, along with the (not pictured) California pride flag that I hung up on the door and then covered with a Rivos logo blanket that's thin enough to work like a banner.

(I bought a M2 Mac Mini because I wanted to have one piece of Apple hardware that I worked on.)

On the day that I turned in my Rivos laptop I went to one of the many office liquidators in the Bay Area to pick up an expensive desk chair to replace the one I had been sitting in for 25 years. The office liquidator one of my colleagues recommended had a selection of the nicest office chairs up front and a large warehouse in back filled with chairs and desks and conference tables and lab benches and all of the things one would need to fully outfit any office. I was briefly possessed with the urge to buy lab benches to set up a home electronics lab.

Office liquidator

I ended up with a good price for a lightly-used Steelcase Gesture chair, one of the highest-rated office chairs on the market. It fit in the back of my Rav4 but wobbled around a bit until I tied it down with bungee cords to the cargo mount points on the floor of the cargo compartment.

Uplift file cabinet

Around the same time I got a small file cabinet for my desk to fit most of the stuff that was otherwise cluttering the surface of my desk. I now have a place for my pens and headphones and notebooks and folders so I don't have to look at them all day, and when I need them they're within arm's reach (I don't even have to move my chair, just reach down and open one of the top two drawers).

I expect that I will be spending less time in my home office in the future, and more time in a work office on the other side of the mountain; but my home office is now in better shape than it's ever been.