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> closed cyan ring Is this referring to some tracking software?
My guess is an Apple Watch? (My girlfriend has one and iirc it has a cyan ring, but not 100% sure.)
Yes. Apple Watch. The "Stand" ring is cyan.
I built a lay-down desk
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#162Great build! I wish I'd have the space for it.
I recommend the Logitech MX ergo trackball.
The bottom part is hold by a magnet. You can stick it to the table board!
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#163I hurt my back recently and moved a monitor to the top shelf area of a kid sized desk with a keyboard and mousd. This converted it to a standup desk. If I sit down I have another monitor and keyboard ready to go.
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#164A friend once said “There’s all these studies about how bad sitting is for you. Now there are even studies about how bad standing desks are for you. Nobody ever says anything bad about laying down so I just try to do that as much as possible.” I still laugh. Perhaps true in part though.
The point is: having another fundamental class of postures available - in this case "lying" (in addition to sitting and standing) - increases our flexibility (and potential for respite) by approximately 33 percent.
For people suffering from severe RSI -- especially those for whom essentially any amount of sitting in one class (say "sitting"), even in difference positions within that class -- becomes unbearable for more than an hour or so -- then this 33 percent can be of significant impact.
Also - for some people standing just doesn't work (for more than very short intervals). So in fact the lying option provides significantly more respite potential (50 percent).
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#165I'm not sure if it's just me getting old, but I find that if I look at a screen while laying down (especially mobile, because typically that's the only type of screen I can use while laying down) for more than a few minutes, I start getting a headache/migraine. As I got older, I have to follow a general rule of sitting in a proper desk and chair to use screens. Anything else doesn't really work for me.
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#166A friend once said “There’s all these studies about how bad sitting is for you. Now there are even studies about how bad standing desks are for you. Nobody ever says anything bad about laying down so I just try to do that as much as possible.” I still laugh. Perhaps true in part though.
my favorite feature of my standing desk is being able to have the exact height I need at any time which mostly does not involve standing
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#167I'm not sure if it's just me getting old, but I find that if I look at a screen while laying down (especially mobile, because typically that's the only type of screen I can use while laying down) for more than a few minutes, I start getting a headache/migraine. As I got older, I have to follow a general rule of sitting in a proper desk and chair to use screens. Anything else doesn't really work for me.
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#168I tried this ~15 years ago, based around a Novus Zero Gravity Recliner. At the time I had been having a decade of upper back pain that just wouldn't go away. At one point it was so bad I could hardly get out of bed. At that point I went to an osteopath, on the recommendation of a physician friend of mine, and he gave me some isometric exercises for my neck, and the pain was instantly gone. I'm not kidding, if he'd do…
Could you talk more about the isometric exercises he had you do for your neck?
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I have often thought about how driving for hours in a bucket seat, at least in the cars I've owned, has never been a struggle. The only thing that comes out wrong is I don't always hydrate, and that makes me a zombie (which is now a solved problem for me). So that leads to the thought that maybe, have the water supply for the hydroflask at a distance from the desk, so you have to get out of the chair to refill.
Back in 2008, BMW introduced an "active" anti-fatigue feature in their X6 that subtly and continuously changed the contour of the seat. I tried it on a long drive, and it is barely perceptible. If I didn't know I had turned it on, I'm not sure I would have noticed it was on.
Some medical beds have a similar feature where the mattress will inflate/deflate in different areas to best match the patient's weight distribution. They'll also inflate/deflate on a cycle.
Supposedly it's good for patients that stay in bed for long periods without moving as it improves circulation, reduces back pain and prevents bed sores.
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There is a company that is solving that! https://immersedvr.com Disclaimer: I'm an investor in Immersed, but I invested because I loved the product!
Thanks I think I've seen that, unfortunately I suffer from extreme simulation sickness, can't even play Minecraft and hence I'm exploring non-VR direct display glasses. But, those who have no issues with VR might indeed find immersedvr useful.
FWIW I also get extreme motion sickness with VR. Except the Oculus (Edit: Oculus Quest). I don't know why, but that one doesn't bother me at all. I've literally used it for hours at a time with no problems.