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I built a lay-down desk

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Post by jam »

bee_rider wrote: post #190
jam wrote: post #186

I've had a setup like this for years, but it's much simpler: monitor arm [1], ultrawide display [2], keyboard + trackpad lap tray [3], any couch. Been through many iterations and like this gear, but you can do it for cheap just as easily. Mount the arm to something (like a desk) and swing it over the couch to lay down. In my case, I can actually pivot it between the couch and the chair on the other side of the desk.…

Same, I put my desk next to a recliner and the monitor on an armature and just swing it back and forth. The downside: the arrangement is kinda comfortable so I tend to play games in it. As a result, my mind associates it with non-work and have trouble focusing there. Also laying down all day is probably not healthy.

Luckily I've managed to associate it with more of a "deep focus" state, but a lot of people seem to feel like they'd get tired and fall asleep if they used a setup like this.

I actually think the biggest downside to the multi-station dynamic setup is that the ideal monitor configuration for that is a single curved ultrawide, and there are essentially no high resolution options.

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Post by Wistar »

bluGill wrote: post #145
cardiffspaceman wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Car makers have spent a fair amount of money trying to make better seats. A luxury car from 1920s is much less comfortable than the economy car today. Comfortable seats are important for people who drive all the time, and they tend to buy cars.

BMW's new i3 "Urban Suite" interior shown at CES this past January supposedly takes comforts to a new level, albeit just for the one passenger.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/304393-ces-2020-limo-for...

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Post by everydayDonut »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #138
zoba wrote: post #5

A 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.

When I had my spine surgery and was bed-ridden I scoured the web for such a setup which will help me use a laptop in bed without moving my neck and wasn't able to find anything practical. I've now come to the conclusion that low latency video glasses/headset connected as external display to the laptop/smartphone is a better solution for that problem as it doesn't require any of these contraptions; But I'm still in se…

I'm severely disabled from a back injury and I use this(link below) over my bed, with a vesa wall mount attached in place of the horizontal bar mount that comes with it. I've also got a pair of joycons that I use as dual mice through steam so I can put my arms anywhere. You need a wall mount arm that tilts up and down though, which a lot don't. I also have a lightweight keyboard that hangs from behind the monitor by twine and some sticky wall hooks so it's virtually weightless and allows me to elevate my legs and not have to hold up the keyboard to type

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0109Y3CCE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

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Post by walleeee »

xwdv wrote: post #97

The best lay down desk for a vim based programmer is to have a good mattress and a split keyboard, one half of the keyboard on each side of your body with arms unbent down by your sides, and then monitors suspended above you facing down.

> monitors suspended above you facing down

Or aim a projector at the ceiling

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Post by birdyrooster »

Wistar wrote: post #203
bluGill wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Car makers have spent a fair amount of money trying to make better seats. A luxury car from 1920s is much less comfortable than the economy car today. Comfortable seats are important for people who drive all the time, and they tend to buy cars.

BMW's new i3 "Urban Suite" interior shown at CES this past January supposedly takes comforts to a new level, albeit just for the one passenger. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/304393-ces-2020-limo-for...

What an incredibly awkward position to be in for both the driver and passenger. Be sure not to wear a skirt in the Urban Suite
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