Re:Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era
by m-p-3 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:52PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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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
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> 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
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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
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Though admittedly wearing a mask during the winter time has made me consider it much more than usual this year.
Audio is already pretty great with a modern laptop, but it's tricky to arrange proper lighting for video conferencing.