The working from home thread: tips and advice

Have you tried power toys and the zoned windows. It's multi monitor so should allow the keyboard shortcuts to do it

I haven't, no. Frankly, it's such an insignificant problem that I haven't looked for a solution to it.

Is there a consensus on the Arkose value equivalent of adjustable-height desks?

I'm not interested in working standing up, but I am thinking of

• using as conventional computer desk
  
• raising it for use as a workbench/studio table (light duty electronics, art etc)
  
• raising it to get the front of bike on turbo underneath for Zwift/equivalent
  
  

The IKEA ones don't seem to get great reviews for stability/lifting power.

[Edit: it does look like they have a newer/sturdier IDÅSEN office grade one now]

Flexispot I'd say.

Thank you.

IKEA ones don't seem to get great reviews for stability/lifting power

I guess it depends what you're lifting and how often. I worked at a mate's recently and needed to adjust the hieght. I didn't have any issues lifting a heavy laptop stand, monitor, laptop, ps2, keyboard, etc.

Not sure I'd be up for winding the little handle everyday as a a full on sitstand desk. But if you're taking about a couple of times a week, I'd think it would be fine.

That's a good point. My flexispot desk is rated to 100kg which seems like significant overkill for a desk with a monitor, laptop and NUC.

I have the Humanscale Float.

It is rated for 75kg... and I've come close enough to the limit that I chose to remove the workstation from the desk.

Speakers, monitor, webcam (camera + lens), keyboard, lighting, dock, microphone, and various mounts all add up to about 30kg.

The computer though added another 20kg that I was hanging underneath.

And the mass of power and cabling, also underneath, adds another 10kg (8 power sockets, several power adaptors, several USB hubs, and various runs of cable).

And it turns out you just don't want to get close to the weight limits. This desk is a spring and counter-balance manual desk, with a featherweight lifting action. When it's 40KG loaded it's truly featherweight, but at 60kg loaded it was now heavy.

100kg would seem like the perfect capacity for a sit/stand desk for my kinda of scenario - which is extreme. I think in practise you only want to be using max 1/2 of the weight capacity.

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Yes, once I started thinking about it I realised how much it all weighed, esp if using a desktop PC (just heaved mine onto scales, and it's 17kg).

Presumably you also have to include the weight of the desk worktop itself. That's going to be at least 10 kg I would have thought. 20kg for solid oak or similar?

Presumably you also have to include the weight of the desk worktop itself

Ah, then perhaps I really did hit the limit on mine.

Now I don't want you all getting jealous but I needed a place to be able to work when I'm at our new house waiting for deliveries of stuff as we're in the middle of redecorating the whole place and need all the things so i'm stuck waiting at the whims of the delivery services while my work pc is in my current study 1 street away at our old house.

when we got the keys to the new place I joked to my friend I was going to make a mini home office under the stairs, well guess what the madlad (that's me, I am the madlad) has actually gone and done it.

and I tell you what, I don't hate it. for now it's just a convenient place to keep things dust free as every single room is in some early state of decoration. but tbh I may end up keeping it as a little computer nook because my proper home office is going in the summer house in the garden with my main pc out there and I'm not keen on spending my evenings out there every time I want to go online (I looked at laptops but I always ended up sat in some back breaking position on the sofa when I had one last and i'm not a fan) and my gf has been making noise about me spending more time in the communal parts of the house as I tend to squirrel myself away upstairs most of the time so this might even count as an acceptable compromise.

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First I was "cramped" then I went "actually cozy".

I'd say keep it. Looks like a nice hideaway from the rest of the world.

You madlad

Anyone used something like this?

https://deltahub.io/products/carpio-2

As my mouse decided that my wooden desk isn't traceable I started to use a wool felt desk pad. I like it but it wears my wrist down to the point of giving me a red shiny mark at the end of each day

I use https://en-ca.sennheiser.com/mouse-pad
Nice mid point of friction to me.

Those look neat. No shiny wrists from these ones?

Looks good, although I think you may be stretching your gf's meaning of 'communal parts of the house' 😂

the sofa will be by that big window so I'll be in direct line of sight, I'm counting it.

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Oh yeah, that's basically curled up together watching a romcom.

all the reality tv show nonsense she watches this is about as close as you'll get me to the tv when she's in charge of what's on.

😂😂

Absolutely fair enough.

This could be class.. what about fresh air??

The wanktorium, the shuffle space, the polishing porch, the hot seat, the relaxation station, the twilight zone, the shame centre, the lubricious lodge

Self care, under the stair

I use one of these for gaming with my 'traditional' mouse.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kensington-ErgoSoft-Wrist-Standard-Mouse/dp/B01MS8PIX9
I use fairly high DPI so i dont acutally move my wrist much, this was a big help for my me.

For 'normal' mouse use, changing to a ball mouse with a built in wrist rest was a huge upgrade for me in regards to comfort