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Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk

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i use: - wrist band to hold a smartphone; - use VNC client on it to connect to rpi4 in a running vest; - twiddler keyboard and joystick paired to rpi as input device. This hybrid approach with smartphone as a display works better for me than head-mounted display.

This is an interesting setup. Do you have pictures or video?

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Stephen Wolfram “ties/hangs” a laptop from his body so he can work while on the move.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...

Personally, I'd like a better mobile solution so I can walk to, or around, a park, etc and work for an hour.

What’s really missing is a better way to input into a device while not sitting.

Add a little voice input, eye tracking, and gesture input:

https://atap.google.com/soli/

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I moved my desk outside in the last couple of years when the British weather obliged. A few notes: - temperature. if the temperature is right for you, chances are that it's a bit too warm for your electronics. Chips get hotter, which can result in all sorts of problems (particularly with big screens and graphics-intensive apps, but modern storage as well is often at risk by poor cooling). - cables. Even if you are in…

> temperature. if the temperature is right for you, chances are that it's a bit too warm for your electronics. Chips get hotter, which can result in all sorts of problems (particularly with big screens and graphics-intensive apps, but modern storage as well is often at risk by poor cooling). This is a very AC-centric mindset. I make it a game to hold off on the AC in the summer. I have experienced graphics card overh…

Nobody has A/C in their home in Britain. It’s not hot enough.

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I moved my desk outside in the last couple of years when the British weather obliged. A few notes: - temperature. if the temperature is right for you, chances are that it's a bit too warm for your electronics. Chips get hotter, which can result in all sorts of problems (particularly with big screens and graphics-intensive apps, but modern storage as well is often at risk by poor cooling). - cables. Even if you are in…

Between dogs barking, new construction, and lawn mowers I would need noise cancelling headphones.

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looks at her outdoors setup: Mac laptop, Wacom tablet, sunshade made of black illustration board with magnets to attach to the ones hidden in the Mac’s lid, a few different bags big enough for all of that and not too much more, and a variety of cafes and parks nearby

This setup feels so... maximalist.

Whatever works I suppose but you can go work under a tree or whatever for a LOT less investment in time and equipment.

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Stephen Wolfram “ties/hangs” a laptop from his body so he can work while on the move. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod... Personally, I'd like a better mobile solution so I can walk to, or around, a park, etc and work for an hour. What’s really missing is a better way to input into a device while not sitting. Add a little voice input, eye tracking, and gesture input: https://atap.google.co…

Is that Soli sensor available for custom hardware? RPi?

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I moved my desk outside in the last couple of years when the British weather obliged. A few notes: - temperature. if the temperature is right for you, chances are that it's a bit too warm for your electronics. Chips get hotter, which can result in all sorts of problems (particularly with big screens and graphics-intensive apps, but modern storage as well is often at risk by poor cooling). - cables. Even if you are in…

> temperature. if the temperature is right for you, chances are that it's a bit too warm for your electronics. Chips get hotter, which can result in all sorts of problems (particularly with big screens and graphics-intensive apps, but modern storage as well is often at risk by poor cooling). This is a very AC-centric mindset. I make it a game to hold off on the AC in the summer. I have experienced graphics card overh…

> This is a very AC-centric mindset.

That’s extremely doubtful since they’re British.

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I used an identical zero gravity chair and a lap keyboard. After about 8 months, I developed serious issues with my wrists (pain all the time) I went back to a traditional setup with an ergonomic split keyboard so my wrists were completely straight, and my wrists only slowly recovered. I'm now on 6 months of not using a computer at all and finally feeling close to 100% My advice is leave ergonomics up to people who k…

I wonder how much of the wrist pain has to do with diet and exercise. In my teens and early twenties I had chronic wrist pain. Now in my mid twenties I've been doing weight training that includes wrist/grip strength exercises (wrist curls, dead hangs, plate pinches) and making sure I get enough protein. The wrist pain is gone and hasn't come back for years. The reason I'm mentioning protein is that apparently joints…

Well, like I said, after being AFK for 6 months I've made a recovery that felt unimaginable when I was at a computer every day. So i'd guess it was 10 hours a day on a computer still.

But since you speculated, I was on 120-150g protein per day, and I am now on 80-100g with 10 hours of hiking (very little wrist exercise, all in one direction) per day.

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