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    Posted on April 22, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    HARDWARE

    Will Fastie

    By Will Fastie

    After 25 years, I’m changing the way I work. Many hardware changes are on the horizon.

    You may recall my previous articles about building my Windows 11 PC, named Obsidian. After I put that PC into daily service, my desk remained cluttered with four desktop PCs. These PCs share the same keyboard, display, and mouse; this means I use a physical KVM switch to move between them.

    That’s been important to me. I help many family members and friends with their PCs. Having the KVM setup always allowed me to bring a “visiting” PC to my desk, where I could work on it conveniently. But the nature of that help has changed; I no longer need the physical infrastructure for that.

    Which means I needed a justification for keeping all those PCs around. A few things changed, which resulted in a completely new perspective about my desktop. Let me start with a reminder of how I used the four systems.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.17.0, 2024-04-22).

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