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Post by cardiffspaceman »

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 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.

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Post by asdff »

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 think it's pretty healthy to get up and go walk to a window to stare out of it for a spell. I've been trying to take short walks around my block throughout the day to prevent any soreness or posture issues, as well. I didn't realize it, but back before the pandemic I was walking probably 5 miles a day at least commuting and walking around work, plus a dozen or so flights of stairs.

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Post by cma »

mellavora wrote: post #71
msluyter wrote: post #32

In college I had some back problems, so I improvised (an incredibly unwise) lay-down desk by putting my monitor face down on two chairs and just lying with my face underneath it. This was a heavy CRT, not a modern LCD monitor. (Did I mention this being incredibly unwise...?)

Damocles, is that you?

Similar risks with this early VR headset: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Damocles_(virtual...

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Post by christophergs »

mdorazio wrote: post #41
christophergs wrote: post #33

I've found the best lying down desk is a $300 mini-projector and a yoga mat. You project at the ceiling (so projector is above your head) and then put a wireless keyboard on your stomach, with mouse by your side. Alternate with a standing desk. Good after 10 years of jiu-jitsu and a knackered body

That sounds pretty awkward for typing more than a few sentences. Do you have something to angle the keyboard somewhat?

It's actually pretty comfy. Here's a quick write up with pics: https://coursemaker.org/blog/create-affordable-lay-down-desk... (sorry for the pop-up)

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Post by kibwen »

alexpotato wrote: post #109
skizm wrote: post #63

Once VR is high enough fidelity, we should be able to just use a VR headset and virtual monitors, hopefully. There is even pretty good hand tracking software such that if you look at your hands with the VR headset on you'll see your hands, and you can also project the keyboard for the times when you need to look at your hands and / or keyboard.

I remember a couple years ago reading that to get roughly of 1080p of at VR headset distances would require the equivalent , from a pixel perspective, of several (I believe it was 8) standard sized desktop monitors. The implication of this was that we were a LONG way off from having that level of resolution so I would be very interested to know current state of the art. Also, this article about how different distance…

> to get roughly of 1080p of at VR headset distances would require the equivalent , from a pixel perspective, of several (I believe it was 8) standard sized desktop monitors

Can someone provide a link to elaborate? My intuition would be that you wouldn't need any more pixels, just smaller pixels. It feels like the aforementioned claim is comparing apples to oranges: to fill your entire FOV with desktop monitors at normal distances would also take about eight monitors.

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Post by ryanjodonnell »

jonpurdy wrote: post #37

I was in the market for a desk and chair recently. Long story short: sitting at a floor table and on the couch all day was causing issues with my back and hamstrings. I did look into the AltWork setup mentioned. At $7000 (or $4500 for manual option), it's quite expensive but not that bad if amortized over a 20 year period of working 8 hours a day. Investment in long-term health is worth it if the product works as it…

This looks like a poor man's AltWork.

https://altwork.com/products/signature-series?variant=316179...

I bought an AltWork earlier this year when COVID hit and it's been pretty fantastic. Currently standing at it. 5 stars would reccomend!

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Post by mangamadaiyan »

SilasX wrote: post #88
msluyter wrote: post #32

In college I had some back problems, so I improvised (an incredibly unwise) lay-down desk by putting my monitor face down on two chairs and just lying with my face underneath it. This was a heavy CRT, not a modern LCD monitor. (Did I mention this being incredibly unwise...?)

One thing that could make it easier to set these up is prism glasses, which have mirrors so that when you look forward, you're seeing your toes. I use them for reading in bed, although sites do everything in their power to make landscape mode on mobile phones unusable.

Interesting, are these like belay glasses, but with the prisms turned around?

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Post by skrebbel »

epidemian wrote: post #68
philipdavis wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A phone is usually less than 200g, a CRT monitor can easily be >10kg, so at least 50 times worse

And damage does not scale linearly. I'd much rather have 50 200g rocks falling on my head than a single 10kg rock :)

> And damage does not scale linearly.

This must be today's "most HN" comment.

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