Thomas Ullmann's colorful RGB desk setup — Frankfurt Main Area, Germany
In their own words
Improving the things which annoy you daily or cost you time every day (like having to pick up your mobile phone for 2FA thousand times a day because you have no good holder) before working on the aesthetics. Productivity first (at least for me as a home office worker).
— Thomas Ullmann
Observation notes
Improving the things which annoy you daily or cost you time every day (like having to pick up your mobile phone for 2FA thousand times a day because you have…
Thomas Ullmann's Samsung Odyssey G9 curves across the whole desk, resting on a glass shelf that keeps its cable clutter out of sight — a Corsair deskmat with edge-lit RGB trim runs the width underneath, and a liquid-cooled PC with a full glass panel sits in clear view to the side. Blue ambient lighting in one shot and warm amber in another suggest a room that changes mood depending on the hour, with a red lotus-shaped decorative lamp as the one consistently soft object in the room.
A small collection of mechanical keyboards and mice sits ready for swapping, alongside an old-style desk phone kept more for character than function. A framed circuit-board art piece and a trailing houseplant soften an otherwise hardware-dense corner.
Ullmann is explicit about the order of operations: fix the daily annoyances — the things that cost you time — before chasing aesthetics. The desk phone within easy reach, not buried, is exactly that kind of fix.
Gear list
25 items- PC
- Own build: Case: Lian Li O11 Dynamic Evo Mainboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z690-A Gaming WIFI D4 CPU: Intel i7-12700k GPU: ASUS ROG Strix Geforce RTX 3080 V2 OC White (LHR) RAM: 32 GB G.Skill Trident Z Royal Elite silber DDR4-3600 Storage (M.2): Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB, Adata Gammix S11 Pro 2 TB CPU Cooler (AIO): Lian Li Galahad 360 V2 White Fans: Corsair QL120 (10x) Lian Li Strimer Plus for GPU and Mainboard Power supply: Corsair RM Servies 2021 RM850 850W ATX 2.4 White
- Laptop
- Lenovo Thinkpad T580p, HP Elitebook 830 G6
- Laptop stand
- Ivoler (noname)
- Monitor arm
- Ergotron HX HD (opens in new tab)
- Keyboard
- Logitech G515 (workdays), Asus ROG Azoth (weekend), Logitech MX Mechanical Mini (iPad)
- Keyboard cable
- MagTame
- Mouse
- Roccat Burst Pro Air (Desktop), Corsair Katar Elite Wireless (Laptop), Logitech MX Anywhere 3S (iPad)
- Mousepad
- Corsair MM700 (opens in new tab)
- Chair
- Musso H80 Pro
- Desk lamp
- Paul Neuhaus Q-Vidal Smart Desk Lamp
- Shelf
- En.casa
- Ambient
- Various LED strips (desk, monitor, desk shelf), some smart RGB spotlights
- External storage
- QNAP NAS 453 Be, 2x4 TB, mirrored to QNAP NAP 459Pro+, 2x 4 TB, 4 TB mobile harddrive for off-site backup storage
- Headphones
- Beyerdynamic Phonum (speakerphone), Corsair Virtuoso Wireless SE
- Mic
- HyperX Quadcast S, Fifine K688
- Camera
- Canon EOS 350D
- Phone
- Iphone 14 Pro
- Tablet
- IPad Pro M2 11"
- Charger
- Baseus PowerCombo Tower 10 in 1 Charging Station 35W, UGREEN 15W Qi2 Certified MagSafe Charger
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