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Posted by zdw 10 hours ago

Desk for people who work at home with a cat(soranews24.com)
321 points | 126 commentspage 5
impoppy 8 hours ago|
That’s silly. Cat will get on your keyboard anyway. The only real solution is to get heated floors. So my cat prefers sitting under my chair or desk and never gets on it.
throwaway290 9 hours ago||
cat review: 1 star, I want to sleep on my warm desktop tower again
goodpoint 9 hours ago||
Pretty poor design all around.
mrweasel 9 hours ago||
Also illegal here in Denmark, if you use it while working from home. Desks must be height adjustable. Your employer is responsible for providing ergonomically correct office equipment. Basically any influencer and YouTuber who's showing "clever" desk hacks or builds fails because their creations aren't height adjustable.

And my cat sleeps behind the laptop anyway.

andai 9 hours ago|||
Remarkable. What else is illegal there?
type0 4 hours ago|||
In Sweden, not checking on your cat at least twice daily is illegal
mrweasel 5 hours ago||||
You can't stuff workers into rooms/offices without access to daylight.
dboreham 9 hours ago|||
Not proper bacon, which seems to be illegal in the USA!
cestith 8 hours ago||
Not illegal, but much harder to find than the sliced, cured belly meat (often from the side of the belly) usually meant when we just say “bacon” without qualification. One can get Canadian bacon, cured side bacon, cured back bacon, uncured pork belly, uncured side meat, uncured back meat, turkey bacon, beef bacon, and several other things in bacon-like categories. If you just say “bacon”, though, you’re probably going to get pork belly meat cured with salt and/or some form of sugar, and possibly smoked.
flakiness 8 hours ago||||
This comment made this post worthwhile. Thanks for the tip!
slopinthebag 9 hours ago|||
Wait, what? Can you chose not to use a height-adjustable desk, and your employer is only responsible for offering you one, or are you 100% forced into using a height adjustable desk?
mrweasel 5 hours ago||
For work you must use a height adjustable desk. It doesn't have to be electric, you just need to be able to adjust it to your correct work height. If you don't use it, and I don't know work at your kitchen desk, that's technically a violation of workspace rules. Your boss tell you to use a proper desk, because if they don't they can be fined.

You also can't use the keyboard and trackpad on your laptop. You must be provided with a separate keyboard, mouse/trackpad/trackball and a monitor. Working on your laptop is for emergencies or very brief tasks.

tsumnia 9 hours ago||
For real, what is that? World of Warcraft icons on a generic fantasy background?

[1] https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/03/ch...

shevy-java 9 hours ago||
I actually hoped for a good solution here, but this is basically a table with holes. I would not dare call such a table a solution for annoying cats. On youtube there are many examples that are better. My favourite one here is where the walls of the room are climbable areas for the cats.
2OEH8eoCRo0 10 hours ago||
They should add radiative heating. Cats often just want to steal your warmth.
kevin_thibedeau 10 hours ago|
That's what the tower PC is for.
cf100clunk 7 hours ago||
I cannot tell if this is real or satire, but it is brilliant for online cat people.
gib444 8 hours ago|
I will never understand the accomodations people make for a pet which gives you so little in return. If most owners were 100% honest and in private I reckon at least 50% would admit their cat is an asshole.

I mean they don't even smile like a dog. They look miserable most of the time!

It's like an abusive relationship where nothing you do will please them LOL

Yes, I'm a dog person ;)

There must be something to the toxoplasmosis theory

drgo 5 hours ago||
I recall reading that ~30% of humans have evidence of toxoplasmosis. But, it is unclear whether that is harming their intelligence. Statistically, cat owners have higher IQ than dog owners (pls do not shoot the messenger unless you want to provide further evidence of the validity of this observation).
tptacek 19 minutes ago||
Sure, I'll bite: there is no such thing as a sufficiently powered survey of validated tested IQ with "dog owner" and "cat owner" in the cross-tabs.
cestith 8 hours ago|||
I’m a dog person, but most cats are lower maintenance than most dogs.
gib444 5 hours ago||
High ROI though

Does your cat welcome you every day when you come home like you're the most awesome person in the world? Doubtful! Dogs - hell yeah

gverrilla 5 hours ago||
> so little in return.

That's simply not true. You clearly never had a cat.

gib444 5 hours ago||
Pray tell