Thomas Ullmann's colorful RGB desk setup — Frankfurt Main Area, Germany

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.