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Active stock trading across three machines means charts, scanners, and order flow all need to be visible at once. The Mac Mini handles the left side displays, the custom RTX 3060 PC drives the upper center and right panels, and the MacBook covers additional screens.

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Five machines across three operating systems, all controlled with a single Satechi keyboard and MX Master 3s. The iMac sits at the center, flanked by a Minisforum i9 NUC, two HP Elitebooks on Windows 11, and a Linux Mint notebook, each with its own extended display.

Arch Linux on the desktop handles the heavy lifting, the Surface Pro 3 covers Windows tasks, and the Steam Deck joins the shared keyboard and mouse via Synergy whenever a physical peripheral is needed quickly. Three platforms, one set of inputs.

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Four machines on one desk, one keyboard across all of them. The main build is a Ryzen 7 9700X with a Radeon 7900 XTX, paired with two Surface devices and an HP EliteBook, each reachable without touching a second input. A Linux commands cheat sheet sits right on the desk mat for quick reference.

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Three very different operating systems, running on hardware spanning over a decade, all controlled with one keyboard and mouse. The oldest machine, a Dell Inspiron from 2012, runs Linux Lite; the laptop handles Windows 11; and a 2015 MacBook Air covers macOS Monterey. Synergy ties it all together.

Four Linux machines spanning a decade of hardware, from a 2014 laptop to a brand-new one, share a single mouse and keyboard to run a distributed fullstack and LLM agent development environment. The goal is no interruptions and no failures, whether working from home or the lab.

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Two Macs separated by six years, connected by Synergy so one keyboard and trackpad reach both. The 2009 iMac and 2015 MacBook Air run side by side, with the screen layout configured to keep cursor movement between them natural.

Two laptops and a WiFi gateway router, all sharing one mouse and keyboard through Synergy. One machine runs what looks like a busy terminal dashboard while the other handles browsing, both reachable without switching peripherals.

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Firmware development, debugging, project management, documentation, and AI-assisted workflows all run here at once, spread across separate machines for good reason.

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Synergy connects a MacBook Pro M1 Max on the left to a MacBook Air M4 on the right, with the center monitor and tablet both extending the Air. One split keyboard moves input across both Macs without any manual switching.

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Running three separate machines for employment, self-employment, and security testing, but fitting all of it onto a 120 x 60 cm desk means only two run in parallel at a time, with HDMI switches handling the middle displays.

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Both machines here run Linux Mint on very different hardware: a Xeon E5-2699 v3 workstation with 128 GB of RAM handling the heavy lifting, and a MacBook Pro running the same OS on its i7. One keyboard and mouse moves between them via Synergy, no input switching needed.

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