The working from home thread: tips and advice

Have you considered bone conduction headphones?
Edit: saw your comment about delay - it's a problem with older BT standards

I have a mac desktop app for MS teams with 2 accounts, a work and a personal one. Can I attend a meeting (invited with a link) with a specific account? And how?

Maybe you can but I've given up. I join all team calls in incognito mode on chrome

I just ordered one of these:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006025491200.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.505938danvB41a&mp=1

Portable 15.6 inch second screen, USB C powered.
Also happens to be 144hz and built in speakers, for the times I'd be wanting to plug in a console...

Not sure about Mac, but I have desktop pc teams, two work accounts, and I can join calls from either account using the account selector at the top. Because I use the same email for both (one work, one guest for a 3rd party) then my calender is synced.

Guessing you can do the same with a work / personal account.

Post a little review once you get it. It looks like great value.

@Acliff how are you finding the budget mini monitor?

Not so mini!
Looks like it powers up fine using the USB-C on my Surface Pro running at 120hz.

Haven’t played with it much yet though.

Reupholstered the home office chair today

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looks good but the tiger doesn't look very impressed it's gonna have your genitals on its face every day.

And all species due for reintroduction to the Vale of Aylesbury!

I did query the potential methane emissions impact on endangered fauna

does anyone have a cheap monitor for sell?

What size? Have at least one Dell 1080 we don’t need that will power and video from USB-C

ideally small-ish 27-24"

Yeah, have a Dell P2419HC going if you want it. Not 4K obvs, would like to replace it with something similar size and 4k.

If anyone is interested have a triple monitor setup up for sale in the miscellany thread

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/394932/#comment17326298

Does anyone have any experience with Boulies chairs? They see good value and are reviewed positively. I'm looking at the EP200 specifically.

Can anyone recommend a monitor/laptop riser that's about 40cm deep?

I had that very one and it was awful, felt way to relaxed even at it's most upright.

I sent it back and got a refund, and then went to IKEA and sat in a few there, and ended up getting one of those.

Apple Earpods - the wired 3.5 mm or USB-C kind - actually have a surprisingly good in-line mic. A cheap option that's widely available.

Airpods by contrast sound very bad as an audio input, as do the majority of wireless earphones.

Is there such a thing as a decent folding or otherwise small chair that I could sit in for hours at a time? I currently only work from home once a week at most, quite often not even that. I've got by sitting on a kitchen chair but my back is still a bit stiff after a full day. I'll be moving to a guaranteed 2 days a week WFH so looking for an upgrade.
A full sized office chair won't really work due to lack of space but there's got to be a middle ground somewhere!

I have one of these at home: https://www.office-furniture-direct.co.uk/dynamic-sitall-visitor-stool

Took me a few weeks to build up my core strength in order to sit on it for ~8h a day but I got there in the end.

I reckon it could double up as a plunger in a pinch. Handy!

Anyone work from a communal space like the kitchen or dining room? Where do you store all your random excess shit?

As an eg or the sort of think I have:

• keyboard
  
• charging cables (keyboard, mouse, etc.)
  
• note pad
  
• pens
  
• personal laptop
  
  

I normally put my work laptop, headset, mouse etc. in my bag, but on weekends I may also need my bag. We have a craft dresser I used to have half a drawer in, but that is now fully taken over.

I guess I'm imagining some sort of compacted nice looking storage box.