I'm a big fan of working while reclined. It gets a lot of naysayers, but as long as you're still moving around regularly, my setup has been amazing for me. Pic of setup: https://i.redd.it/8oh29a2zwqu81.jpg
In nursing homes, there’s usually a discussion around whether or not to get someone into a sit-stand recliner that helps support and lift someone into a standing position.
On one hand, the action of going from sitting to standing is part of the daily tasks that maintain fitness. On the other, if this is something that helps the quality of life of the resident, so be it.
I realize this is an extreme example, but I do wonder what the long-term effects are of staying recumbent for 16 hours a day (assuming 8 hours sleep + 8 hours work).
Not poo-pooing your setup, I would love to have one like that too, but it’s something that crosses my mind when I do consider one.
The wiring harness on a seat with powered multiway movement, heating/cooling, etc. will have dozens of 00 gauge wires ganged into a proprietary male plug that can only plug in and communicate to a module that is hardwired to a computer proprietary to the vehicle manufacturer.
I can't even get 2012 mazda rx8 seats into a 2012 mazda speed3 due to the above ^ makes me sad.
For example, weight is an important design criterion, which already reduces the design space.
I honestly think a nice manually adjusting lumbar supporting leather driver seat (or even cloth from like a low tier sport car)would be nice enough. Now I'm planning....
What kind of keyboard is that?
What kind of chair is that?
Keyboard is a Dygma raise, chair is a zero gravity recliner (got it used off craigslist, but the patio versions you can get delivered for cheap are similarly comfortable).
I had a few comments about it when doing video calls, and they are usually positive. My gaming headset (Sennheiser Game One) also got a few comments, again, mostly positive. I mean, you are just getting yourself comfortable, and reasonable people understand that being uncomfortable is not the way to be productive.
Batteries have a limited amount of charge/discharge cycles - if you are doing this you're unnecessarily wasting those. Keeping the device plugged in once charged is absolutely fine - the battery itself will stop charging and the power will be used only to power the device itself so it doesn't have to touch the battery anymore.
This stupid advice has been going around for ages and if it ever applied it definitely doesn't apply now - all modern lithium batteries use charging circuitry that stop charging beyond a certain point regardless of whether it's plugged in or not - if they didn't you'd be seeing battery fires everywhere.
Macs do this automatically but it doesn't seem to happen to me that often. Usually if I leave it plugged in for an entire weekend I think.
Two reasons - One, the charger heats up a lot when I keep it on. Of course, you don't feel it unless you are nearby or touch it. Two, in the past I once had the charger destroyed due to a power surge. The Macbook remained fine after that power surge but I had to replace the charger since it stopped charging after that.
I have three of them plugged in 24/7 for 3 years now and recommended them to others, all houses still standing. But you can also get the original 96 W charger from Apple, it's bigger so it can dissipate heat better than the smaller ones.
to disable sleep:
sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1
to enable sleep:
sudo pmset -a disablesleep 0
FWIW, I probably sit 2-4 hours reclined on couch or recliner chair, 2 hours standing, 2 hours in traditional chair.
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It could be more solid, but the part of the bendy neck closest to the keyboard is resting on the chair's armrest, and that's what gives it most of its stability. These guys[0] put 1/4-20 screw holes on the bottom of their split keyboards, I wish everyone did that.
EDIT: how do you get in and out? The chair looks a little close to the monitor stand
Getting out is a bit of an exercise. I push myself up on the armrests, pull my legs in, and then step out over the left side. The whole monitor setup is on wheels, so if I had the whole thing further away from the wall, I could just roll it away from me and get out normally.
Fuck that.
You don't build something like that in order to do anything normally. The gymnastics is integral to the build!
I've had my eye out for a dentist chair for a long time to try to build something similar.
yeah there's lot of stigma somehow. sitting is the most unnatural pose, i can't see it being healthier than laying down.
as long as you remain active, any pose is ok.
The bottom rectangle is 12" x 24", and then the top/side pipes are 36" each.
It's a bunch of steel pipe from Home Depot, and sturdy enough you could do pullups on it. The pipe isn't super cheap, was around $200 total I think. I went with 1 inch diameter because it would hold the monitor arms better, but you could go thinner and cheaper with a different monitor mounting solution.
Somehow a search this morning sent me to Pinterest with a lot of photos of decorative knots. That might be a way to do some joins between crossbars, as well. (I hear macrame is coming back!)
From ready to buy: https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
To 'home-made': - https://bastardkb.com/charybdis/ - https://splitkb.com/products/kyria-pcb-kit
There are a lot of variations that you can build yourself and find your actual ultimate keyboard.
I run a low-profile Kyria (one wireless and one wired) with a Miryoku (Halmak) layout, as well as a Charybdis Nano with the same layout and the tenting 'kit'. It however took many keyboards to get to the point where I found the ones I truly liked. (It's a money-pit so don't get into it unless you're okay with spending)