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Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by tpmx on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:03PM (#26426271)
Having a built-in "ring"-light would be nice. Perhaps in the bezels? Or perhaps even done via detailed software-based control of the screen backlight via zones?

Audio is already pretty great with a modern laptop, but it's tricky to arrange proper lighting for video conferencing.

Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by m-p-3 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:52PM (#26428245)
I bought a USB-C rechargeable light bar, works like a charm.
Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by psidhu on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:08PM (#26426329)
Not necessarily good for people wearing glasses!

I bought one and it glares off of mine a lot so I stopped using it. Other angles where the glare stops makes me look like a sociopath.

Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by beckingz on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:22AM (#26436749)
Embrace the look.

Glasses + glare makes you look like a super hacker.

Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by dhosek on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:43PM (#26429954)
I imagine the flayed human corpses in the background don't help with the sociopath thing.
Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by tpmx on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:11PM (#26426363)
(Edited.)

Perhaps mounting a polarizing filter in front of the laptop camera to kill most of the glare would make it work with glasses.

Otherwise: For those who can make it work, contact lenses and lasik are nice options. Increased FOV.

Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by Jtsummers on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:16PM (#26426435)
Not everyone who wears glasses qualifies for lasik or can wear contact lenses. I’m lucky that I can wear contact lenses and get pretty good correction, but LASIK and PRK are off the table for me (I’d still need glasses all the time).
Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by ghaff on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:28PM (#26426581)
I wear contacts and still at least like to use readers for reading (even with multifocals). For day to day stuff I just let people deal with it. I have a key light which is elevated so the glare isn't too bad.

If I'm recording video or something like that I just make sure any notes on my screen are in a big enough font that I can read them.

Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by tpmx on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:22PM (#26426510)
> I’d still need glasses all the time

So trying out a polarizing filter is perhaps worth looking into? I'm curious to how well it would work.

Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by jaywalk on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:16PM (#26429110)
Not everyone who wears glasses wants to stop wearing them.
Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by dont__panic on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:25PM (#26429772)
Though admittedly wearing a mask during the winter time has made me consider it much more than usual this year.
Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by tpmx on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:23PM (#26430325)
An unexpected bonus with lenses: Superhuman tolerance against eyes getting irritated when chopping onions.
Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era by abduhl on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:15PM (#26426421)
This response sounds very much like “just stop holding the phone wrong” to me.