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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
by papa_bear 4y ago
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 https://i.redd.it/8oh29a2zwqu81.jpg
- boomskats 4y agoSetup bros! Here's a pic of mine from 5-6 years ago. https://imgur.com/PgHfzQu https://imgur.com/PgHfzQu
- titzer 4y agoI've been dreaming of doing this the past couple of years because of back issues. Nice setup!
- dahfizz 4y agoThat's absolutely incredible. Do you have some links? What keyboard is that? Monitors? The mini desk attached to the pipe stands? EDIT: how do you get in and out? The chair looks a little close to the monitor stand
- papa_bear 4y agoKeyboard: dygma raise. Takes some getting used to, but has been a big improvement over having a keyboard in my lap. Monitors: Left is LG 34GK950F-B, right is a cheaper 32" LG. I wouldn't really recommend either of them. The left one has a great picture, but has developed some weird issues with powering on with my laptop over the past year. Mini desk: https://www.amazon.com/VIVO-Universal-Microphone-Platform-MOUNT-SF13P/dp/B08MJY3B3K/ https://www.amazon.com/VIVO-Universal-Microphone-Platform-MO... 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.
- bgoggin 4y agoHow do you get in and out? It looks like you're almost in a cage.
- m-p-3 4y agoThat looks great, do you have a list of parts used for the setup?
- papa_bear 4y agoHere's a pic of the frame: https://i.imgur.com/BViZJri.jpg https://i.imgur.com/BViZJri.jpg 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.
- a9h74j 4y agoThree-quarter- or one-inch diameter EMT could give a similar look, be easier to cut (if required), be less expensive, and be strong enough. It might take a little figuring how to do the joins, but that can be the case with threaded iron pipe as well. 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!)
- papa_bear 4y agoMakes sense, I imagine someone with more handyman skills could get this done for 1/10th the price. The pre-threaded steel pipe has a good amount of weight to it though to keep it stable, and it took zero skill to put together :P
- fantasticshower 4y agoI've used Maker Pipe [0] for constructing with EMT before and would recommend it. [0] https://makerpipe.com https://makerpipe.com
- a9h74j 4y agoNice. Hacksaw, 5mm hex wrench, imagination.
- andkenneth 4y agoI absolutely love this honestly and it makes me immediately want to go out and do it myself
- adewinter 4y agoWhat kind of chair is that?
- papa_bear 4y agoIt's a zero gravity recliner -- they cost a few thousand dollars new, but they pop up on craigslist every now and then for a few hundred dollars. You can also get a patio version on amazon for $50-100, and it's arguably more comfortable, but less stable. I used one of those for a couple years before upgrading to the leather version.
- noman-land 4y agoI love this. Can anyone tell you're reclined when you're on webcam? What kind of keyboard is that? What kind of chair is that?
- papa_bear 4y agoHaha yeah. If it's a one-off zoom call, I'll use the background blur feature to avoid explaining anything. If it's someone I talk to regularly, it's whatever, it doesn't look _too_ weird. 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).
- GuB-42 4y agoI am also using a recliner, though my setup is nowhere near as refined as yours. It is just a big recliner, monitor on a desk in front of me, mouse on the arm of the chair, keyboard on my lap (which made me learn to touch type without realizing it). 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.
- snicker7 4y agoBTW, The Dygma Raise is the best keyboard I ever owned. It feels dirty using anything else.
- cellis 4y agoWonder how it compares to the ultimate hacking keyboard ( Uhk )? I’ve been using it for a few years now and I say the same. They look very similar so curious if you’ve tried it too and the dygma still came out on top?
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoThe split function, and the ability to fully program it are both valuable to me.
- BigJ1211 4y agoHave you tried different split keyboards? From ready to buy: https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/ https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/ To 'home-made': - https://bastardkb.com/charybdis/ https://bastardkb.com/charybdis/ - https://splitkb.com/products/kyria-pcb-kit 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)
- temp8964 4y agoThis pic belongs to r/battlestations/
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- newtwilly 4y agoI'm also a big fan of working while reclined. I am less fancy, and probably less ergonomic about it. I will sit on a recliner couch, or in the warm season I also sit on a zero gravity chair[0] outside, on my deck, in the shade. In both instances I sit with a pillow behind my back... to make the seat less deep / keep me propped up a bit more I guess? FWIW, I probably sit 2-4 hours reclined on couch or recliner chair, 2 hours standing, 2 hours in traditional chair. 0: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.8_4P1K6W-WC1nGLnGQG_eQHaHa%26pid%3DApi&f=1 https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
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- VectorLock 4y agoYour setup looks great, I like the pipe frame and what I presume are casters to move it around. I've had my eye out for a dentist chair for a long time to try to build something similar.
- AngeloR 4y agoAre the keyboard mounts purchasable through Dygma as well? I've been looking for decent chair-based split keyboard mounts and am having a hard time. I found some mouse-stands that attach to chairs, but they end up being a bit too small in all the wrong places.
- cjbgkagh 4y agoThey look like goose neck iPad holders. They’re probably too flexible for me and would wiggle under typing. Other than that they seem to be an elegant solution.
- papa_bear 4y agoNah, they don't have very many mounting solutions available. I tried first using some camera gear / clamps and couldn't get it stuck in the right position, so I ended up using two of these gooseneck mounts: https://www.amazon.com/Tryone-Gooseneck-Tablet-Stand-Compatible-dp-B07WZJWLJY/dp/B07WZJWLJY/ https://www.amazon.com/Tryone-Gooseneck-Tablet-Stand-Compati... 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. [0] https://shop.keyboard.io/ https://shop.keyboard.io/
- cjbgkagh 4y agoI have a similar setup. I tried everything, ergo chairs, balance balls, standing desks, saddle chairs etc. I finally gave up on ‘ergo’ solutions and decided to build a setup around a recliner chair. It works for me and I highly recommend it.
- jedberg 4y agoYour next upgrade is going to a junkyard and getting a driver's seat from a luxury car, like a BMW or Mercedes, with 16 way adjustment and heaters and coolers. Hook it up to sufficient power, and you can get all the same adjustments as in a car (lumbar, neck, thigh, etc).
- caffeine 4y agoWhy not a 1st-class airplane seat?
- na85 4y agoPresumably they're not often found in junk yards.
- jedberg 4y agoThey're hard to find and also not nearly as adjustable as the luxury driver's seat.
- zeusk 4y agoEven better if you can get a S-Class back seat with recliner/calf support.
- Terry_Roll 4y agoI have looked for a dentists chair because they recline so well but I dont know if they would be any good for extended lengths of time unlike a high end car seat which is designed for long journeys, but how many recline for the truly lazy?
- midasuni 4y agoMore complex and take more room. You don’t need a lie flat bed for example. I don’t remember having heating last time I flew first class either.
- cinntaile 4y agoHave you tried this? Because I remember reading somewhere that you need to reverse engineer the protocol they use to send the seat commands and that's a bit harder than simply hooking it up to power. I could be misremembering, I haven't tried it myself.
- matthewhartmans 4y agoSick rig! Reminded me of wall-e lol https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-09/1.png https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-09/1.png
- jjeaff 4y agoYa, that's what I think of everytime I am tempted to remove some form of physical activity from my daily routine.
- naavis 4y agoCool! How do you get in and out of the chair with the screen and everything in the way?
- howisthat 4y agoHow did you manage to close the lid of your Macbook and still be able to view content on the external display? Is there some setting that I'm missing? When I'm attached to an external monitor and if I close my Macbook lid, the system goes to sleep (am on Macbook Pro M1, 14 inch 2020 model).
- 0JzW 4y agoin order for that to work, you have to plug in the charger. then you can close the lid and have the external displays on :)
- howisthat 4y agoDidn't know that. Thank you. Although, for this to work then, it will go against my habit of switching off the charger as soon as the battery gets charged 100%.
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- rmbyrro 4y agoSorry to bother, but why would you have such habit even when stationary and the charger is lying around?
- howisthat 4y ago> but why would you have such habit even when stationary and the charger is lying around? 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.
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- antibus 4y agoWow, I suppose you didn't publish a DIY instruction guide somewhere right?
- Sakos 4y agoThis is incredible. I need to do this too.
- bmn__ 4y agohttp://web.archive.org/web/2003/http://okcancel.com/comic/6.html http://web.archive.org/web/2003/http://okcancel.com/comic/6....
- atum47 4y agoThat looks great.
- dzhiurgis 4y ago> lot of naysayers 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.
- xattt 4y agoThe biggest issue is core deconditioning. You engage abdominal and back muscles when you sit upright, but not so much when you recline. 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.
- ransom1538 4y ago@papa_bear Can your hands rest on those partial keyboards? Is there enough support? Do you need to keep your hands hovering above? Can we get a link to that clip-on support for the split keyboard? Thank you so much for that image!!