What would be your dream setup?

In terms of hardware and because of my love for typography, I would like to have an e-ink monitor with a high resolution (1200 DPI) and high refresh rate, possibly in colors. I don’t think it exists yet but I’ve seen some recent products that make me believe it could exist in a few years.

I’m so grateful to say that after many years I’m very nearly close to my “dream setup” (that being a reasonable modern all-in-one iMac and a nice wood desk, I truly don’t desire anything more than that). I’m happy to say I’m “there”, but my poor 2017 Intel-era iMac has certainly never felt older, and at this point I would strongly eye a “Pro” Apple Silicon iMac should one pop up at some point down the road…

A cocktail at the beach.

I’d love to do more work while travelling. I’ll have to convince my wife to do that, but post-COVID, I don’t see why that’s not possible.

I don’t really care for specs — all i want, and this is vain of me, is for my computer to be housed in a faux-antique wooden dream. It’s a simple dream, but by gosh, i’m determined to make it happen.

Aside from needing to upgrade my desktop, I think I am more or less set. Though I would like to have an extra laptop to install Linux on, it’s not a big priority.

I’m honestly quite content with my day-to-day set up.

The only true addition to complement it would be hanging out with the above people every day, maybe from a co-working space, where we’d be able to bounce stuff off each other and have super interesting chats all the time.

That’d get me out of bed every day of the week! But thankfully we have Twitter and Discord. 🙂

I’m pretty happy with the setup that I have, so I can’t think of much I’d change. I guess the only thing I would add would be some sort of robot that could keep my desk and office tidy. (I’m a slob.)

A laptop with the size of an MBA, with the power of an MBP, 20 hours of battery, no heat and no noise. :D And two Control keys! I guess I’ll have to wait 5-10 years for something like this to happen. Powerful and light laptops that run Linux well would also qualify as dream setup for me.

On a more serious note - I’m quite happy with my existing home setup and other than getting a quieter fan and a more powerful GPU I wouldn’t change anything there.

In terms of software - I think Emacs is all the dream setup I would ever need!