Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office?

Re:Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office? by michaelbuckbee on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:10PM (#37448372)

So I have a big 4k TV that I use as a monitor. The distance from the bottom of the TV to the desk should really change when I switch from sitting to standing. It would be cool if the screen mount also lifted when going from sitting -> standing.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office? by squeegee_scream on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:15PM (#37448431)

I’m the same way! I’m more torso than legs. But for me it’s just an inch or two so I don’t mind. But I’ve thought the same thing.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office? by RankingMember on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:12PM (#37448398)

I'd be curious to know what model tv you use for this.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office? by michaelbuckbee on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:22PM (#37448541)

A Samsung 55" Curved - they stopped making them as I suspect they moved their production capacity over to higher margin curved monitors, but it's great if you can find one.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office? by reckless on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:36PM (#37448752)

They do a 55" curved one called the Samsung odyssey ark

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Re:Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office? by michaelbuckbee on Sunday September 10, 2023 @07:46AM (#37454951)

Yeah, that's a ~$2500 55" curved monitor and I'm using a ~$500 Samsung Curved TV.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office? by coffeebeqn on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:50PM (#37448966)

Any downsides to using a TV? Anything specific you have to look for or are they basically the same as monitors these days?

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Re:Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office? by michaelbuckbee on Sunday September 10, 2023 @07:45AM (#37454945)

The pixel density is less, but that's offset with your face being further away from them. The only other real thing you need to do is fiddle with the settings to turn down stuff like auto-smoothing/auto-sharpening or whatever proprietary processing TVs designed for movies and shows are set to.

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