Nov
22nd
2020
What a mess · 7:00pm Nov 22nd, 2020
Slowly, a little at a time, the workspace gains form and function. I'll be getting an actual desk soon, so everything right now is temporary. Either I'll be able to get something done, or the cable singularity will rise up to do battle with the noodles on my noggin. I did, actually, get some writing done this morning. I keep getting distracted, because of pain, but I am learning how to shrug it off. Well, I already knew how to shrug it off, but that was with the previous levels of pain. Nevermind, I digress.
Time to stop horsing around and smash out some horsewords.
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kudzuhaiku · 413 views
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That is a nice chair.
But the rest of it triggers me something fierce x.x
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The chair is amazing. It does awesome things for my fucked up spine. No direct pressure on spine or tailbone. There are no words.
I don't see any mess there? It all looks excessively organized.
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3 different screens. none of them the same size, aspect ratio or orientation.
3 different keyboards, one of them to me an absolute eye-sore, but i guess the colours are there for a reason.
A Trackball . . . i thought those were extinct after only child eating monsters bought them for the most part.
i could not care less about the cable stuff. i do way worse. if i fully populate the extension cord on my desk and
switch it on, the whole flat goes dark because it trips not only this rooms but the main breaker with the instant
power draw . .
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what kind of chair is that?
maker and model if you have and how much did that cost?
Nowadays, my rubbish cheap ass "office"-char ain't cutting it no more due to added weight and home office <.<
There must be a reason the keyboard on the desk looks the way it does.
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YQNT40
The trackball is much easier for me to use with my partially paralysed right arm. C5 and C6 got damaged in my neck, affected right arm, breathing, etc. I also got shot right in the goddamn funny bone, and lemme tell ya, it wasn't funny. So right arm doesn't work so great. Thumb actually works quite good tho, so I can use a trackball better than a mouse.
One keyboard claps onto my Lenovo Duet, and it was just left sitting there for lack of a better place to store it.
The chair lives up to its promises. It really does. I've been walking better and moving better since getting mine. I mean, it's not a miracle item, far from it, but it does keep its promises. It is comfortable... so much so that it has ruined other chairs for me. When I sit in other seats, like in the car, I am now acutely aware of the pressure against my spine. And more to the point, it hurts more. Sitting on my Duo Rest allows me a chance to recover and be mostly comfortable. I've even slept in this chair. It's not for everybody, but if you've had severe spinal injuries, or just have an achy back, it might be for you. I wish I'd bought one sooner.
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media.discordapp.net/attachments/310900859569438720/780165413887279174/PXL_20201122_201806954.jpg
Yes, the wild colour scheme serves a purpose. Gamers highlight the WASD keys. This board was customised for smashing out horsewords.
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I don't get why so many "gamer" keyboards have the WASD highlighted, it's not like you look at the keyboard while playing. (I mean, I never learned to type properly, so I still look at the keyboard while typing, but I type much faster than your typical hunt-and-peck typist, even using all of my fingers, just not resting on the home row.)
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I highlighted all my vowels and punctuation. So I could have punctual vowel movements.
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Vortex caps?
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???
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Meant the keycap manufacture but I was way off (they don't make very many backlit caps) and guessing now they are some form of Taihao make. I'm using puddings my self. Your chair is wild btw.
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They're just some keycaps from DROP.com. The board is a DROP ALT. It has kailh box jade switches. Hot swappable. Not made for gaming, but for productivity. I honestly don't know what brand the keycaps are.
I feel like if I sat in that chair, my spine would finally stage a rebellion and secede from my back
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My spine and I are barely on speaking terms. Which is why I can't feel my legs most of the time. It feels good to sit on something and not having anything touching your spine.
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400 for the chair i'd be willing to pay, but it'd be 270 for shipping it to me alone and that is a bit too much for my taste.
Thank you anyway.
Also: ok, yes, if you have such hindrances, then i can see why you would go with a trackball.
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They have a website. And other locations. There might be something more local.
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thank you again, i'mma check that out!
dang compared to my rig that is neat and tidy.
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Ah, I see I have navy's. Jades were to light for me as I like some mx greens. I'm aware what keyboard it is, here's mine lol.
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/208047844320477185/780231769898483743/20201122_125307.jpg
You think this is bad? My setup is far worse lolz.
Hope things improve from here. Keep being awesome. <3
This looks rather clean to me... dont know what that says about me.
Oh, geeezzzz.... you oughta see my rig.... er... pile. The bottom layer is a large anti-static mat found at a local surplus electronics store; followed by about a foot of mixed unmounted components, blank and partially assembled PCBs, Chinese knock-off Arduinos, cables, and small hand tools. Both my iMac and it’s external display are on monitor arms bolted to the wall so that they hover over everything.
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Trackballs aren’t just not extinct, they’re downright essential for some people. I’ve got.... uh.... six of them? But only two are in regular use by me (the one on my machine, and a small one on my mom’s Mac mini that I keep there for when she needs my help with something). The rest are old ones I’ve kept around as spares, or if I need to use a machine without a USB port (a couple are old PS/2 clip-on ones).
I am sufficiently old that I remember the Radius Full Page Display, connected to a Mac Plus. It was, as it’s name would indicate, a black-and-white CRT, with an aspect ratio and orientation setup such that you could see a whole 8.5x11” page at once. People used them with desktop publishing programs like PageMaker, Freehand, and Illustrator.
Yes, there was no expansion slot on the Mac Plus (that didn’t come until later with the SE and II — for some reason, Steve Jobs was dead-set against the original Mac being internally expandable at all). IIRC, what they did was de-solder the CPU and attach the video card to that location on the motherboard (yes, the 68000 was in a big DIP package - 40 pins? - and soldered down. The same was true of other machines that used it, like the Sega Genesis and early/low-end Amigas). The 68000 would then be installed on the video card, and the whole stack wedged back into the Mac Plus’ case. A hack, but it worked...
The really neat trick was that as a side effect of the system’s drawing engine (QuickDraw) being inherently able to handle non-rectangular drawing regions, they were able to tell the system that the whole display area from both the internal 9” CRT as well as the external Full Page Display was the desktop; allowing you to just drag a window from one screen to the other (something we take for granted today, but Radius did it first)... and everything just worked. You could even drag a window half-way over and have it display on both screens.