What’s on your desk, Dominic Preston?

Not everything freedomEmployees live in the United States. For example, Dominic Breston news editor is in London, he says, “responsible for keeping our news coverage in the morning in the United Kingdom before the American team comes online.” It also deceives us Edge daily The newsletter covers Android phones, especially all models that are not launched in the United States.

Outside of work? He says: “I am a little dietary obsessive, and I run a The newsletter is called newsletter braise I review the restaurants and cooking books in London, and sometimes try my hand in writing recipes. This means that I spend most of my free time cooking, eating or thinking about food, as well as a decent time in the gym in an attempt to compensate for it. ”

Where is your work area located?

This is an office that I share with my partner in our apartment in London. It was customary to be a second bedroom, but now we photographed it with offices and sofa bed for the crosses that we have already we have guests to stay. My PhD student, so her working hours are somewhat predictable, and they are divided between here and the school – which means that 90 percent of the time I have the office.

Can you tell us about your office (your office)?

We both have permanent offices. Mine is an autonomous Smartdesk 2 electronic and automatic, and it is an ancient air model written by Bakker Elkhuizen, which no longer makes it, which disturbs it because it requires a little effort to switch up and down. Both are decorated with self -healing cuttings, which are still used from time to time for arts and crafts (or as a background of my product photos) but mostly doubled as a giant mouse bed.

You have a chair and walking station. What are they, and how do they work for you?

The chair is Hermann Miller. In fact, I was to be my partner, while I sat in a large chair in the game Duelhawk Jet Black Pu (he was no longer available as well), until we realized that we preferred and replaced the other seat. I am old enough, and panels enough, to be ready to invest a little in the chair, I will use it every day anyway.

Walking pillow is very cheap from Mobovoi. I bought it immediately immediately after reading a piece by my colleague Victoria is a song on a different model of Mobovoi, and following its advice, I did not try to touch its smart features or track my training; Until now, serve me well. I just use it slowly as, and I try to spend the largest possible amount of every morning walking on it – on a good day, I will raise two or three hours of fixed walking; On a bad day, I will continue to postpone it until you hit coffee and never go. Either way, I allow myself to sit for the afternoon, which is likely to be focused at the time of writing – I find it difficult to do anything creative or very complicated while walking at the same time.

(I know, and I know, that my cable management is not great. I tend to be very arranged, but the cables are one of the few things that I never have patience with the organization.

Here’s the long style: tell us about the various technical devices you use.

My current setting is embarrassingly trapped between work and personal computers, although I have some business plans to improve it.

My work machine is M2 MacBook Air, which lives on a Ugreen laptop holder. It is connected to the screen on the right, and it is a 24 -inch QHD Philips model that I bought in 2020.

The confusing part of my setting is that the second screen, one of the old embarrassing families. This is because I also got a desktop computer that I use outside the work, and Which – which It connects to both screens. At the end of the business day, I can turn closed MacBook, and my personal preparation is good to go. Everything is unnecessary, especially since MacBook cannot support both external screens at one time, so it is likely that the large upgrade for this year is a 32 -inch screen to replace her husband. I will happily take any recommendations from the comments!

My keyboard is Logitech MX, which I love. I loll over a good mechanical panel like the next man, but I love full -size keyboards, and good mechanical options in this space is few and spaced. I used to use the Hexgears project, but I finally ran it on the ground, and this has served me well since then.

The mouse is also Logitech, although it is not my usual country. I picked up this MX anywhere 3s to use when I travel to commercial exhibitions and launch products, and you usually have MX Master 3s on my office. Unfortunately, the left button that gave up the ghost, and I stop replacing it in the hope that MX Master 4 will be about to launch.

Continuing the topic of Logitech (I am now realizing the amount of my office preparation that was built by them), I have the old Z337 2.1 amplifier system that is almost not suitable for the office at the present time (another reason I need to switch to one screen), and the BRIO 500 web that I love mostly in order to raise the integrated privacy sects.

Everything connects through the Anker Prime USB center, which is certainly more powerful than I need, but it has a lot of USB ports facing the interface to charge a set of my phone, with the help of Xiaomi 50w Wireless Charg Stand, which was not more than that when I was using Xaiaomi 14 Ultra as my main phone, it is now slight.

I tend to get a group of rotating phones that float around my office, although this is relatively arranged for me – on chaotic days, I can get up to five or six devices. Besides Vivo X200 Ultra, you are used to taking these pictures, you can see Fairphone 6 and Huawei Pura X, the two phones that they had recently made for reviews.

Tell us about your camera collection.

I decided that I wanted to experience filming in 2019, because I was spending more time writing about cameras as part of my phone reviews and using cameras as part of my job. I thought that the movie would be a good way to make myself learn more about the basic principles.

I picked up this eccles on EBY. It is SLR in the seventies with a metal body, which means that it is heavy but built like the tank – I think it will surpass me. This came with the Canon 50mm lens, and I gradually picked up some cheap options to go with it: a wide 28 mm angle, 35-70 mm when I want flexibility, and 70-210 mm phone TV I bought specifically for safari trips in Kenya two years ago. I always tell myself that I will buy better quality lenses when I am a good photographer enough to get the maximum benefit from them, but I can only have to bite the bullet in the end.

The microphone who all live next to them is Rode NT-Usb, which I use for podcasts and videos, although I want to have a prosperity arm so that I can store it around the office.

You have a lot of games and games on those shelves! How long have you gathered it?

This is a variety of things that you collected over the years – some of them have been purchased, some of them talented, and some were obtained from an old Clearout office. There is more dotted around the rest of my apartment, although my girlfriend is on a (understandable) mission to focus everything in the office.

Do you have any favorites?

I am absolute foreign Obsessive, I have already two sides of the full size, one luxurious one and one dispute, I love it. There is also an energy loader (unfortunately not full size) ForeignersWhich I can’t get enough. Elsewhere in the apartment, I have a few nineties original Sharks and Young soldiers Work numbers, which are still waiting for the right shelf to display.

Small plate games collection, but they grow steadily. I was playing a lot of Gloomhaven During the past year or so, though Betrayal at home on the hill The game that is often broken is likely. I also got a healthy set of D & d 5E and Foreign RPG Source Books – I can highly recommend the latter, and this is not just a fabric in my interview!

Well, tell us about that beautiful cat.

This is pasta, one of our cat (and the other is a loaf, and yes, of course they have an Instagram account).

It is actually a modern addition to my office. We have had cats for a few years, but in the past few months, the pasta decided for them truly He wants to accommodate me while working, and I will be happy with the keyboard to do so. I have prepared it with a small lining instead, and it is now sleeping now in about half of the day, although it is still not above the keyboard nap when it strikes the mood. The biggest surprise for me is that it does not mind to give the stand office up or down while it is, which I expected to cause some panic.

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