Spent 2 hours building a standing desk from IKEA parts, then realized my new monitor was 3 inches too high

Finished setting it up last Tuesday around 3pm. Everything looked clean. Plugged in my 27 inch Dell and had to tilt my neck up to see the top of the screen. Tried stacking books under it for a week. That just looked dumb and wobbled every time I typed. Finally caved and bought a $35 monitor arm off Amazon. Took 10 minutes to install and now my neck is fine. Anyone else have a desk project fail that needed one cheap fix to save it?

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the_john17d ago

...but is it really that big of a deal though? Like I get that it's annoying to have to tilt your neck up a bit, but a few degrees of head tilt isn't gonna kill you. People act like their spine is gonna snap if their monitor is off by an inch or two. I've been using a 32 inch TV as my monitor for years and it sits on a stack of old textbooks. My neck is fine. You probably just weren't used to the new setup yet. Give it a week without the arm and you'd adjust. A lot of these "ergonomic" complaints are just people being dramatic about normal body stuff. But hey, if the arm makes you feel better, whatever works.

emma_lee2217d ago

Yeah exactly, I spent hours tweaking my setup and ended up needing a $20 phone stand to fix everything. Overthinking it just makes it worse, sometimes the simple cheap stuff is all you really need.

wade_anderson17d ago

Funny you mention the textbook stack - did that for years too until I realized my neck was actually craning forward without me noticing. A cheap arm fixed it but honestly a couple of folded towels would've done the same thing if I'd just leveled it right.