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(DIR) Post #B0daMeT5ahvSsxEMNM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T12:34:11Z
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If you have a shared "office" space with your roommate or partner how do you set it up?Do you sit next to each other? Most of the time when I'm relaxing at home I'm at the computer. (I kind of don't even agree with calling a space an "office" just because there is a computer. I'm not working. I'm playing a game, or drawing or watching videos or reading.) I like to talk to my husband now and then. And we can lean over to see each other's screens. How do you set up your "office?"
(DIR) Post #B0dasMZ5gqtCct9ugC by jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt
2025-11-26T12:39:48Z
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@futurebird during the first Covid-19 confinements I had my home office done exactly that way. My mother and sister had their space on the dining table (my current desk in a new home, they didn't need an "office space" but it was free all day long for them if needed) and I had a smaller table with my external screen positioned exactly where the one on the right is.
(DIR) Post #B0db14Y22wtvLyoh04 by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-26T12:41:27Z
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@futurebird this is absolutely adorable.
(DIR) Post #B0dbUQiahGl8Vlkp8a by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T12:46:40Z
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@Szescstopni I think it depends on what the space is for. If it's really a "home office" and you are trying to work then a room with a door is needed! But, what I'm trying to make is more like a living-room... but with computers for everyone. Getting "distracted" by the other person and what they are doing is the point. During COVID lock-down when I was teaching I went in the other room and closed the door.
(DIR) Post #B0dbkDVJauqQA64Xrc by LJ@zirk.us
2025-11-26T12:49:36Z
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@futurebird oh, hell, no! Offices in opposite ends of the house! Otherwise I'd have to murder him. ;)
(DIR) Post #B0dbnRz0DdQbw5V4u8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T12:50:14Z
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@Tarnport We like it a lot! But, I'm always ready to spend some time thinking about how a space can work better. Both the side by side and facing each other set ups seem kind of less appealing. I wonder if we sat on the other side of the desks, inside the corner? Hmmm.
(DIR) Post #B0dcAGf4ThFlU23dmy by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-26T12:54:20Z
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@futurebird far too much chance of spontaneous congress! And this way you can still share a garbage can.
(DIR) Post #B0dcJQP5crxuIwwtjk by ehproque@neopaquita.es
2025-11-26T12:55:58Z
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@futurebird we are facing each other, desks in the middle. If I'm working I'm not even sure if she's there, but one just needs to stand to talk to the other one.
(DIR) Post #B0dcbx6ilyzIwiBx7w by roknrol@beige.party
2025-11-26T12:59:14Z
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@futurebird It did not work.If I had any noise playing, at all, she would get angry with me. Even if I asked if noise was okay. If I wore headphones she suddenly became very talkative so I was getting interrupted every few minutes.I'm not saying it was deliberate, but it sure felt like she just plain didn't want me around.Kind of a metaphor for our marriage, really.
(DIR) Post #B0dd4ROVlCXozI662S by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T13:04:31Z
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@roknrol Aw. That sucks. We have an unspoken "no sounds" rule, we both use headphones, but only in one ear so we can hear each other when we suddenly need to say "look at this!"It's mostly him showing me a motorcycle, a stock or transportation statistics and me showing him politics or ants. Finding the ideal earbuds so there is no shouting or waving needed was hard. But "co-computing" isn't probably comfortable for everyone. You both have to agree on how it is I guess.
(DIR) Post #B0ddJ4H606XJcwbTu4 by roknrol@beige.party
2025-11-26T13:07:08Z
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@futurebird Yeah...we can play video games together in the same room, but with two different flavours of AuDHD working felt pretty impossible.
(DIR) Post #B0dda57K7ca9A994ds by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T13:10:04Z
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@agturcz I think I'd get lonely in my own room. And it would confuse the cat. But I have many friends who love to have their own "pod" ... wish I had on at work sometimes.
(DIR) Post #B0ddrCjd3IeNiCE99U by nirak@carhenge.club
2025-11-26T13:13:17Z
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@futurebird in our old house we built a long desk and sat right next to each other.Now I use a laptop on the couch or dining table and he has a desk in the same room. I wouldn't mind also having a desk but can't figure out how to make room 🤷
(DIR) Post #B0ddsUd00msjUnjyvQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T13:13:34Z
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@agturcz The more I think about it the more it seems that how a "co-computing space" is set up needs to be carefully tailored to how people want to spend time together. Do you like to have someone next to you working on something but mostly ignoring you? I like that. But for some people that could be miserable. Do you want to sit side by side and play the same game at the same time with the sound on? Then watch the same videos? Too much for me. It's a big set of decisions.
(DIR) Post #B0deTnQD6FzoUwXvcG by stephanie@ottawa.place
2025-11-26T13:20:16Z
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@futurebird this is for we did it then we had to share a space! But then we couldn't share for long as my husband is in a lot of meetings while I need concentration to work. Now we're on two different floors, which is great! We're side by side in the basement though where we have our personal gaming computers
(DIR) Post #B0dejKkjSTbqDSYPnk by magen@infosec.exchange
2025-11-26T13:23:04Z
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@futurebird Before our move, my husband and I had our desks back-to-back so the back of the monitors faced one another. That way we could look around the monitor to one another to talk or just stare at the other.
(DIR) Post #B0dhcG3koD5jUnlk2q by bucknam@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T13:55:24Z
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@futurebird when we shared an office, my wife and I sat facing away from each other, on opposite walls. This was due mostly to the fact that we each needed more horizontal working space than we could get from any other arrangement. There were windows above both desks, and we could swivel around to chat, so it was nice.
(DIR) Post #B0dmvHCbHfteJRnLQO by JTO_is_Typing@mstdn.games
2025-11-26T14:54:51Z
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@futurebird Over a decade ago I shared an office with a roommate and our desks were facing away from each other, but our chairs could swivel so we could easily turn and face the other. There was a big table between the desks, which was nice for tabletop gaming, but looking at anything smaller on each other's computer monitors required a walk around it.
(DIR) Post #B0dt6mpMdrmVJ5nXQ8 by Marrekoo@urbanists.social
2025-11-26T16:04:10Z
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@futurebird We have the luxury of a studio in the back yard. If my wife works from home, which is rarely, one sits there, the other at the desk in the office/library annex in the house. 30 meters in between.We both do a lot of phone calls and teams meetings so being in one room and trying to work would be starting world war 3.
(DIR) Post #B0e9lCIyvzV5AswVlI by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-11-26T19:10:46Z
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@futurebird The layout in my home office is determined by if I need my "I am a serious scientist" bookcase in the background for a video call or not.
(DIR) Post #B0eVS4dZPw5uslrKAy by doqunbop@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-11-26T23:13:47Z
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@futurebird Our gaming desktops are next to each other, separated only by a small snack shelf :3