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Oxyclean posted:Anyone ever use a monitor stand like this? I'm debating between something like that and something more basic like this for lifting my monitors up a bit more. (Got them stacked on some textbooks for the moment) Oxyclean posted:Anyone ever use a monitor stand like this? The freestanding style like that is ok. Be advised though that if you get too wide or too high it really makes it unstable. I actually bolted mine to the desktop to keep it from moving or tipping
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Made some adjustments to the desk I built for basement WFH, pretty happy with the arrangement now. I also added a footrest bar in the back, I like kicking up my feet.
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That’s depressing
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do you have a kitchen in your basement?
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devmd01 posted:Made some adjustments to the desk I built for basement WFH, pretty happy with the arrangement now. I also added a footrest bar in the back, I like kicking up my feet. How's that plague inc playthrough going for you there? 
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Wibla posted:How's that plague inc playthrough going for you there? I've been all over this game again for the last month.
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I don't know about Plague, Inc, never played it, but this virus panic made me play Pandemic II. Mhm, such a classic
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devmd01 posted:Made some adjustments to the desk I built for basement WFH, pretty happy with the arrangement now. I also added a footrest bar in the back, I like kicking up my feet. dont kick too hard or whatever is going on there to the right is gonna collapse all over your everything
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Mar 20, 2020 15:07
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Built my first desktop just in time for this WFH madness. Clearly i need some RGB. 
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I like your desktop backgrounds! Any chance you could link them?
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forkbucket posted:I like your desktop backgrounds! Any chance you could link them? Here ya go mate  
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Changed things around from last time I posted but it's still mostly the same 
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I apparently never posted my setup for the last 3 years...  Sold that place, and now living with the in-laws, and had to setup a temporary (smaller) place in a corner of the dining room to keep working and not lose my sanity on a laptop at the kitchen table: 
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Decided to splurge on a new monitor since I am working from home. 32" is a huge jump from 25", but am loving the extra pixels on 4k vs 1440p. I still need to do some better cable routing (and fish some through the walls). Probably going to get a small stand to lift up the laptop as well. That dumb pad is because I like to rest my elbows on the desk and am too stubborn to change my habits. Also, this AmazonBasics chair sucks rear end sitting in all day. Planning an upgrade on that eventually.
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edit; that photo stucks.
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where I will be working remote for the foreseeable future V edit. It's a modded $200 walmart thing, with a dell monitor and raspberry pie - nerd alert 
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Apr 2, 2020 02:56
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Nice, I've always wanted a Galaga machine (even though I'm literally out of AC outlets in this room, it'd have to go in the hallway and the roommates would hate it). What's under the hood, I'm assuming it's some kind of emulator?
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Withnail posted:where I will be working remote for the foreseeable future On a scale of 0-5 how much craft brewing do you do? Mister Speaker posted:Nice, I've always wanted a Galaga machine (even though I'm literally out of AC outlets in this room, it'd have to go in the hallway and the roommates would hate it). What's under the hood, I'm assuming it's some kind of emulator? It looks like one of the Arcade1up machines, in which case yes it’s an emulator. There’s a jillion of these available now, with everything from Star Wars to SFII to Mortal Kombat licensed on them.
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Withnail posted:where I will be working remote for the foreseeable future A NERD? ON THE INTERNET???
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Original Galaga represent:
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Yay, Arcade1Up! I stuck a Raspberry Pi 3 in mine, but it's really easy to use whatever you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09DQCOr6zQM I did not make this video, btw CubanMissile fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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Dielectric posted:Original Galaga represent: You sure that's an original cabinet? Not doubting you but there's a sports bar in my neighbourhood with a Galaga cab so old it has ashtrays on both sides of the controls. Plays very differently to the multi-machine at my arcade, too. Nice mau5head.
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Mister Speaker posted:You sure that's an original cabinet? Not doubting you but there's a sports bar in my neighbourhood with a Galaga cab so old it has ashtrays on both sides of the controls. Plays very differently to the multi-machine at my arcade, too. Those ashtrays are bolt on, I could buy a pair tomorrow. that galaga looks to be in good shape for its age, the cpo might be a repro, but i'm betting it's an original board. All the pac/galaga mashups are remakes though.
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Deviant posted:Those ashtrays are bolt on, I could buy a pair tomorrow. I remember GalaxMan machines from my childhood and that was only 30 years ago! Those were remakes right?
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Mister Speaker posted:You sure that's an original cabinet? Not doubting you but there's a sports bar in my neighbourhood with a Galaga cab so old it has ashtrays on both sides of the controls. Plays very differently to the multi-machine at my arcade, too. Original board, updated power supply. It's some kind of frankenstein though, the display has burn-in from a landscaped poker game so it's definitely not 100% original, I was just being cheeky. It was likely in a line with other cabinets because there were no decals on the side so I stuck those on. The edge banding is crapped out, might replace someday when I'm feeling frisky. Yeah, we got the dead mouse, Thomas, and behind them is a Marshmello. They're all lit with addressable LEDs. Fun projects, always finished in a rush because Halloween sneaks up on us every time.
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Say hullo to my brick stand
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Hi folks, just wondering what the goon opinion on the many various manual (crank or pneumatic) and electric sit-to-stand desks that are available? I'm looking for something at least 54 inches wide, with a minimum height of 28.5 inches. I'm not concerned about the maximum height, it's much easier to raise a keyboard a few more inches than to lower it the extra inch or half an inch I have found I need below a standard 30 inch high desk. I'd like to keep my budget under $500 but I feel like that's a pipe dream. The markup on these products seems extremely high to me!
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Lawnie posted:Hi folks, just wondering what the goon opinion on the many various manual (crank or pneumatic) and electric sit-to-stand desks that are available? I'm looking for something at least 54 inches wide, with a minimum height of 28.5 inches. I'm not concerned about the maximum height, it's much easier to raise a keyboard a few more inches than to lower it the extra inch or half an inch I have found I need below a standard 30 inch high desk. IKEA's Bekant desks are $480. I have a corner one for my home office and it's been a perfectly reasonable desk. You'll need to assemble it yourself, but that's the case with the Jarvis and I think Uplift and a lot of the other more niche ergonomy retailers as well. You can probably find a cheaper manually adjusted desk somewhere, which may be a good idea if you don't intend to move it very often since that's one less point of failure. Another option is to just buy an adjustable frame from wherever and source your own desktop. Just the frames seem to go for $300-$400 or so, all you really need to do is screw them to an appropriate slab of wood or approximation thereof.
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Xerophyte posted:Another option is to just buy an adjustable frame from wherever and source your own desktop. Just the frames seem to go for $300-$400 or so, all you really need to do is screw them to an appropriate slab of wood or approximation thereof. This is what I did at my office. Motorized legs/frame + countertop.
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As somebody who works in labs I’m kinda surprised standing height desks with tall chairs aren’t more the norm. Like, why get something motorized when you can have something at counter/workbench height with complementing seating? Sure you maybe can’t recline as much depending on the chair but I’ve never minded working from bench top height.
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Ok Comboomer posted:As somebody who works in labs I’m kinda surprised standing height desks with tall chairs aren’t more the norm. Like, why get something motorized when you can have something at counter/workbench height with complementing seating? Sure you maybe can’t recline as much depending on the chair but I’ve never minded working from bench top height. We had draft tables at my old workplace. I liked the table surface.The problem we ran into was the expense of comfortable 'task chairs' and the differing heights of everyone that worked at the company. I think a standing desk and a task chair is the ticket, if only to dial in the standing height part and use a task chair (or stool) to rest or alternate the body position.
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Lawnie posted:Hi folks, just wondering what the goon opinion on the many various manual (crank or pneumatic) and electric sit-to-stand desks that are available? I'm looking for something at least 54 inches wide, with a minimum height of 28.5 inches. I'm not concerned about the maximum height, it's much easier to raise a keyboard a few more inches than to lower it the extra inch or half an inch I have found I need below a standard 30 inch high desk. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-62-in-Adjustable-Height-Work-Bench-Table-HOLT62XDB12/301810799 Got mine for $200 even. takes a while to go up and down, but it's not as big of an issue as I thought. I got it because my chair also sucks but the desk was cheaper to replace so I can stand when I want to stretch for a minute. 
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KingEup posted:Say hullo to my brick stand is that some kind of medical display?
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BurgerQuest posted:is that some kind of medical display? Yeah, it’s an FDA approved Sony OLED surgical display (true RGB not this WRGB garbage in use nowadays). The picture quality is breathtaking. I have a couple of them. KingEup fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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Surplus from work or you just really really wanted a reasonable size OLED PC monitor? Can you turn the lights off on the controls around the side?
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BurgerQuest posted:Surplus from work or you just really really wanted a reasonable size OLED PC monitor? Can you turn the lights off on the controls around the side? You can turn LEDs off yeah. Just wanted OLEDs because I couldn’t stand the IPS glow and backlight bleed any longer KingEup fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-62-in-Adjustable-Height-Work-Bench-Table-HOLT62XDB12/301810799 Wow this is pretty much EXACTLY what I wanted to find, thank you! I don’t really care how long it takes to go up and down, I’m not going to die from cranking a minute or two to move it, and the height is just right as well.
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Ok Comboomer posted:As somebody who works in labs I’m kinda surprised standing height desks with tall chairs aren’t more the norm. Like, why get something motorized when you can have something at counter/workbench height with complementing seating? Sure you maybe can’t recline as much depending on the chair but I’ve never minded working from bench top height. This is how I have my office setup and I love it. There's a 7-1/2x2-1/2 alcove in my office, so I tucked a butcher block on black pipe frame desk in it, and built a floating shelf above it for my larger Lego stuff that's just the right height for the monitors to fit under. I still need to either stain or paint the shelf facing and install some LEDs. The desktop surface is tall enough that I can tuck the front of the exercise bike under it and pedal while I work, low enough that it's pretty close to the perfect 90 degree elbow bend height, and I have a barstool style task chair that's used more by the cat than me. Plus the 3x3 storage cubes and the filing cabinet fit underneath it. It's far from neat and tidy, but it's perfectly functional for both work and recreation, and has enough space on top that I can tuck the keyboards away and do large set builds, small electronic tinkering (there's an Ender 3 Pro on the other side of the room) or draft out projects for the house. The white pyramid hanging under the left side of the shelf is a light therapy box, and I have a folding treadmill and a ceiling hook for TRX straps so it also doubles as my home gym. I have done many HIIT sets while listening in on conference calls and am down 30lbs since mid January. 
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Lawnie posted:Wow this is pretty much EXACTLY what I wanted to find, thank you! I don’t really care how long it takes to go up and down, I’m not going to die from cranking a minute or two to move it, and the height is just right as well. I just bought this desk from Monoprice:  https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=312&cp_id=31214&cs_id=3121403&p_id=15721&seq=1&format=2 I really like it, I already had a desk top from Ikea. It only only takes about 30 cranks from all the way down to all the way up. I'm 5'10" and at 25 cranks it about shoulder height. I'd highly recommend it. It's available on amazon as well for a little more, but free shipping. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IRYWD4G/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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