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Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by scottlamb »

walrus01 wrote: post #279
hinkley wrote: post #253

I stopped hanging out in /r/DIY before /r/DIWHY became a thing, because it was turning into a roast of people risking life, limb, and property by doing something structurally unsound. There's educating people on building standards, and then there's just bagging on people. In an attempt to be more of the former than the latter, if the string or especially that strut sheer off of their mounts, that whole contraption is…

Also I feel sorry for the noise and disturbance experienced by all of this person's neighbors, it looks like it was built in an apartment.

I hate this attitude that apartment dwellers shouldn't be able to live their lives. I regret that I went along and never played my flute while I lived in an apartment for many years. I think we should either be expecting some neighbor noise (during reasonable hours) or demanding that landlords soundproof thoroughly.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by walrus01 »

scottlamb wrote: post #301
walrus01 wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also I feel sorry for the noise and disturbance experienced by all of this person's neighbors, it looks like it was built in an apartment.

I hate this attitude that apartment dwellers shouldn't be able to live their lives. I regret that I went along and never played my flute while I lived in an apartment for many years. I think we should either be expecting some neighbor noise (during reasonable hours) or demanding that landlords soundproof thoroughly.

doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable. Do it off site or in the parking garage or something. The amount of sawdust on the floor alone tells me this was a very noisy process.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by scottlamb »

walrus01 wrote: post #302
scottlamb wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate this attitude that apartment dwellers shouldn't be able to live their lives. I regret that I went along and never played my flute while I lived in an apartment for many years. I think we should either be expecting some neighbor noise (during reasonable hours) or demanding that landlords soundproof thoroughly.

doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable. Do it off site or in the parking garage or something. The amount of sawdust on the floor alone tells me this was a very noisy process.

Those options aren't available to everyone, particularly during the pandemic. None of the apartments I lived in had outlets near parking or any kind of shared space appropriate for carpentry.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by ornel »

andreareina wrote: post #25
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.

IME it's not sitting or standing or lying down that's injurious, it's not moving . My pain to a large extent went away when I stopped staying so still. Now I change my posture on the regular, from leaning against the backrest to sitting away from it to taking little breaks to pace around a bit. Similarly, I used to get eye strain from all the screen time. Until I moved to an office with a view and I found myself star…

I do lots of work in my hammock -- I can shift to many different positions, including putting my feet down and gently pushing side to side. Laptop only, but hopefully eventually with VR

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by dvduval »

If I were to build something, I would want it to be continuously moving in such a way that my body was not getting into fixed positions for a long period of time yet maintaining a pretty good posture. Perhaps I can program different sets of movements, yet the movements wouldn't be so distracting and I couldn't do my work.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by Aeolun »

walrus01 wrote: post #302
scottlamb wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate this attitude that apartment dwellers shouldn't be able to live their lives. I regret that I went along and never played my flute while I lived in an apartment for many years. I think we should either be expecting some neighbor noise (during reasonable hours) or demanding that landlords soundproof thoroughly.

doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable. Do it off site or in the parking garage or something. The amount of sawdust on the floor alone tells me this was a very noisy process.

> doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable

You do you, but this is my apartment. It is there especially to allow me to do the things that I want to do.

If this person is not doing carpentry work at 12 o’clock at night, they’re not disturbing anyone with their activities.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by jsjohnst »

wolrah wrote: post #260
AnotherGoodName wrote: post #184

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I'm not sure it's the chair so much as the movement that changes things. You're shifting around a lot when driving. Legs moving on pedals, arms and hands wheel turning, head+shoulders turning to look left and right. It'd be nice if being comfortable at a computer all day was as easy as changing the seat but i don't believe that's true.

> You're shifting around a lot when driving. Legs moving on pedals, arms and hands wheel turning, head+shoulders turning to look left and right. As someone who lives in the midwest, I have to disagree. Pick pretty much any random 100 mile stretch of I-70 or I-80 between the Appalachians and the Rockies and the majority of it will be straight enough that you could set the cruise and only have to turn the wheel a few d…

> Pick pretty much any random 100 mile stretch of I-70 or I-80 between the Appalachians and the Rockies

Having recently (and historically many times before that) drove both I-70 and I-80 in the area indicated, I feel you’re being a bit hyperbolic. I’d agree both are as described for some 100 mile stretches (I-70 between Hays / Salina KS and I-80 between Lincoln / Grand Island NE as two examples), but not any random section.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by walrus01 »

Aeolun wrote: post #306
walrus01 wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable. Do it off site or in the parking garage or something. The amount of sawdust on the floor alone tells me this was a very noisy process.

> doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable You do you, but this is my apartment. It is there especially to allow me to do the things that I want to do. If this person is not doing carpentry work at 12 o’clock at night, they’re not disturbing anyone with their activities.

say that again after you've been awake until 2am working on a project, want to sleep in, and your neighbor brings a chop saw and drill into their apartment and starts slicing up 2x4 lumber in their living room the next morning.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by fukpaywallsII »

Aeolun wrote: post #306
walrus01 wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable. Do it off site or in the parking garage or something. The amount of sawdust on the floor alone tells me this was a very noisy process.

> doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable You do you, but this is my apartment. It is there especially to allow me to do the things that I want to do. If this person is not doing carpentry work at 12 o’clock at night, they’re not disturbing anyone with their activities.

The reality is that most people doing diy work wind up working until 4am in the morning drilling and hammering away at things oblivious to the fact that is past bedtime and that their neighbors are trying to sleep.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by octoberfranklin »

scottlamb wrote: post #301
walrus01 wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also I feel sorry for the noise and disturbance experienced by all of this person's neighbors, it looks like it was built in an apartment.

I hate this attitude that apartment dwellers shouldn't be able to live their lives. I regret that I went along and never played my flute while I lived in an apartment for many years. I think we should either be expecting some neighbor noise (during reasonable hours) or demanding that landlords soundproof thoroughly.

People like you are why I don't live in cities anymore.

Seriously, everytime there is some kind of pro-urbanist post here on HN, I think to myself "sure, but noise". And people who don't value peace and quiet.

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