Now I strictly use a laptop, no more multi-monitor setup, no ergonomic keyboard, no standing desk, I have poor posture, and, I have no more back and neck pain.

Turns out that my anxiety was wiring my pain neurons together with certain pressures. Basically I was scared, and at some point the neurons that fired together wired together. It's a similar mechanism in the brain as somebody that has phantom limb pain.

What really helped me with this was the Boulder back pain study, which studied people using functional MRI machines and analyzing the pain region of people's brains. And using Pain Reprocessing Therapy and then analyzing with the functional MRI scans again. And many of the people who had a level 4 or higher pain for 5 years or more, got down to a zero or one. So I read that study, and I read the book on the study which is called The Way Out, and there's a film on the study as well called Pain Brain Film, and there's a podcast called Tell Me About Your Pain. I basically binge watched, listened and read all of this stuff and eventually unlearned my pain.

And now I have wonderful freedom with a laptop anywhere in the world! I can sit on a park bench or a s*** chair, or on a comfortable couch, I still have poor posture. I don't try to sit up straight anymore. And I don't have any chronic back pain or neck pain anymore.

I have found that is the best way to prevent injury. That is, Don't sit the same way for long.

At home I use a Macbook Pro.

Because of the RAM cost rises and desire to run LLMs locally, I have considered a mac mini or some other desktop mac instead of upgrading my macbook pro. (Since loading it with 64GB of Ram now has a purpose is probably didn't for me before.)

The most important thing for posture is to have a good office chair (herman miller Aerons are cheap used) and lift weights at the gym. A regular deadlifting (once per week) builds a strong back and core and keeps your posture in check.

I never work in a coffee shop. I never work on a plane. I use computers at my home or work docking stations only. I don't benefit from the laptop form factor.

I'm on team desktop 100%. At home, a mac mini does the job. Arguably just as portable as a laptop if you are simply carrying it from docking station A to B. Fits in a laptop carry bag just fine. It's 2026; a "desktop" doesn't need to be an un-portable massive box that weighs 30 pounds.

My current plan is to ride the Apple M chip wave while avoiding their expensive laptops. Mac mini delivers the goods in a cheaper, just as portable package.

Modular, as well. There's an iMac sitting in a box because the display went out.

I can't sit on an easy chair (or anything, for that matter) and use a laptop, or even a tablet. Too awkward. Mouse beats trackpad. I use two mice since the Apple mouse's horizontal scrolling is both a blessing and a curse. Damn finder windows wig-wag back and forth unless the columns fill the screen WHICH SHOULD BE THE DEFAULT. There was a cool applescript app that would resize the window appropriately but it quit and I can't find the source.

Trackpad will ruin your wrist. I got a mouse for the iPad with case. (which sits on a desk, actually, the top of the electronic piano)

Continue what you are doing and eventually you will get chronic debilitating pain.