Comment by atlgator
7 hours ago
This man poured concrete around a power strip, chemically aged copper with ammonia, rusted rebar with peroxide, faked a damaged cable for vibes, and vibrated out the air bubbles with a dildo. This is the most unhinged and delightful Show HN I've ever seen.
It's an honour just to be nominated <3
Have your office's PAT test guys flagged those exposed mains cables yet? :)
Do I like it? No. Do I want one on my desk? Absolutely not. Do I think it's even brutalist? Not in the least.
But it's still a cool as hell project. People need to do more things just because they want to, and to hell with what anyone else thinks.
It's very liberating, crafting something for yourself with no intention of selling.
Yes! Trying to make something that other people want is a good way to take the joy out of a project, and it dulls the uniqueness that could the result something truly special.
Sums up my mother's sculptures, or my kids' drawings.
If it serves the artist, it served a purpose.
Personally, I have an aluminium laptop stand which makes the laptop dockable but which isn't portable or makes screen/keyboard usable (secure for cats though) and I have a portable, foldable, lightweight plastic one [1].
I also do not enjoy the idea of using the bottom of a laptop on concrete. The latter material isn't nice for scratches (and every time it is put or leaves concrete is a potential mark).
So in this case, I believe a second monitor (or larger primary one) plus a vertical laptop stand would fit in the shown office.
[1] https://nexstand.eu/collections/foldable-laptop-stands
Perhaps having a scratched up laptop matches the concrete stand.
> I also do not enjoy the idea of using the bottom of a laptop on concrete.
How else could your laptop echo the theme of "Urban decay?"
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The professionals actually use a tool that looks about like a big (BIG) vibrator, along with various other vibrating tools.
And yet that laptop stand is not even the slightest bit slanted, one of the crucial details. I could simply take a book and put the laptop on top of that, to get the same ergonomic features. I am aware that ergonomic use is not the main point, but it would certainly not have hurt to consider that angle at least a little bit.
That would have destroyed the brutalist cred.
Use a random cement brick instead of a book, then.
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Haha, consider that angle. (I'll show myself out.)