Way easier: buy a projector, use your ceiling as the screen, lie in your bed.
I built a lay-down desk
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
A physiotherapist once said to me that sitting with bad posture isn't even bad for you... as long as you don't stay in the same position too long. So the problem isn't sitting, standing or lying down, its doing those for too long. I suppose probably due to not moving, as you said.
I find my self working more and more sitting on the floor with my legs crossed on a floor pillow and the laptop on top of a shin high living room table. My legs can only take this for about half an hour before I start feeling the lack of blood flow, so I’m forced to change positions, stand up and rest for a little, or move to a desk or to the sofa. Even in the sofa I work sitting with my legs crossed up in the sofa for the same reason. I find this forces me to change my position quite frequently and never work for too long at a time without moving at least a little.
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
We used to joke that smokers have great eyes because they take regular screen breaks to go outside and stare at the horizon.
My old office had a dart board in the lounge. I think it was quite ingenious in that it forced the workers to focus their eyes differently from their screen time whenever they took a dart break.
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#325In US, the price equates to:
$300 in material, $10,000 in medical bills and physical therapy.
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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.
I appreciate peace and quiet too, which is why I mentioned soundproofing. IIUC the standards for condos in my area are considerably stricter in this regard than those for apartments. I'd support raising the apartment standards to match.
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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.
No, negative externalities aren’t ok when you do it, or when cities do it, or when businesses do it, or when anyone does it. You don’t get to harm other’s welfare. Take your construction project to a public park or outdoors somewhere
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#328Earlier 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.
Except it's not your apartment, it's the landlord's apartment, and they probably have rules against being so loud that people in adjacent units want to move out.
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#329Earlier 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.
This basically reads "I'm a massive piece of shit"
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#330That's a good way to utterly ruin your back. Muscles atrophy if you don't use them. If you don't get up all day, absent supplemental exercise you'll screw up your back in a few months.