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I work from home, so things are pretty quiet.
But if I needed to drown out surrounding annoyances, I'd have a headset on and play white noise in a loop. I've used that before, and found it to be quite effective.
Seriously. If I need to focus, music is a distraction.
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peterkmx wrote: Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Ok, that was trippy.  
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Thanks.
Enjoyed Where Owls Know My Name.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Natalie Merchant Motherland
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nice.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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When programming, instrumental music. For that I'll pull up a YT live music channel, something from Lofi Girl, Epic Music VM, or Chill Music Lab channel.
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Is the spirit in the sky whiskey?
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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grralph1 wrote: Is the spirit in the sky whiskey?
Yep, right along with Lucy in the sky with Diamonds. 
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Jesus.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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soundtrack from Red October.
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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Michael Jackson Earth Song.
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I have a small pile of old laptops that I'm not quite willing to get rid of just yet. Stacked them one of top of the other. Some have been in the pile for years.
The one at the bottom, under the weight of all the others, I guess started putting too much pressure on the trackpad buttons, and I recently found out they no longer work. Lesson learned. That's what you get for being so obsessed with thinness, you manufacture a laptop with so little space between the display and the keyboard when the lid is closed that they touch.
Anyway. I thought I was really clever when I instead started using those (typically) metal or plastic dividers you get from office supply places. I don't know what to call them. They're made to let you organize papers on a desk. Not just a stack of horizontal shelves. The sort that lets you place papers or small books in them vertically.
Here. This illustrates what I'm talking about...
So...I started placing my old laptops in one of these trays, "nose first" -- none of my laptops have buttons on the front that would get damaged from the laptop sitting on that edge for some amount of time. Whether the power connector is at the back or either side, that's not a problem either. Easy to grab any of them or put them back (easier than trying to take the last one from a stacked pile anyway). Takes little room. I only see advantages to this. Most laptops nowadays are thin enough they easily fit in one slot.
Nothing particularly innovative here. I just never thought of using one of those trays like this until now.
How else have you repurposed some everyday thing in a way it wasn't really intended?
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I have four laptops in a book rack. They sit in the rack on their sides (not as deep, but taller). The bottom of the rack is lined with a piece of foam, just in case the constant pressure from being stored that way might cause deformation of the plastic. Like yours, not innovative, but serviceable. Depending on the age of the laptop, I can fit up to three laptops at a time between the dividers. I figure there's room for a dozen machines in my rack.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I've got a stack going now...5 laptops and a scanner in my spare office chair. Two of those were started in the last 12 months. All are at least 9 y/o and running a mix of Win7 and 10. In the closet I have my very first laptop from '99. In my outdoor garage, I have my old TI/994a in the box...now if I just had a TV with a two-wire antennae hookup I could have some fun with BASIC!  Additionally, I have every tower PC I've ever owned and a few that weren't mine. I know I have a problem. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I put my Log Log Duplex Decitrig slide rule in its leather case, in a padded drawer.
I keep the book that came with it on the bookshelf.
(no, don't remember the last time I used it)
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Options
a.) Crush them and throw them away...
b.) Donate the laptops to a non-profit organization with an OS; of course only after all your personal data has been irretrievably deleted (which can then be rather critical).
c.) Donate the laptops to a non-profit organization _without_an_OS
Format all the drives
Personally I tend to a.)
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Let me assure you, the laptops I have are the rejects that the non-profits don't want and send to the recycling center.
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Umm, Dandy, don't take this the wrong way, but you have issues. I type this as I look at my current work laptop, my new work laptop and my old work laptop while typing this on my server. If your stack is that high, seek therapy.
But wait, I have a funny story to tell. Actually, not so funny, so I'm not going there. I just typed it out and I got very angry. Don't be a hoarder.
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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What's "that high"? Did I say how high I have laptops stacked? How many do you think I have?
What's too many? Who's to say? Based on what criteria?
These are the tools of my trade. I use them to earn a living.
You don't want to know about my other ("non-laptop") systems then. Or the number of VMs my hosts are running.
My dad was a mechanic. He owns more than one set of sockets. More than one set of ratchets. More than one set of screwdrivers. More than one impact wrench. Should I inform him that's excessive?
I'm not offended. Share your story if you must. I genuinely wonder what made you "very angry".
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Not only music, but any "louder" sound breaks mental focus or changes it. For me, absolute silence is the best, and every few hours a short break with some quietly played 
extreme metal such as Meshuggah, Rivers of Nihil, or Job for a Cowboy refreshes my mind somehow, it works 
