Cait the Proud Trans Woman on Nostr: Question for y'all computer-toucher types. I bought a couple of nice, relatively ...

Question for y'all computer-toucher types.

I bought a couple of nice, relatively inexpensive curved monitors for my desktop PC. About six months ago. About two weeks ago, the stand for one of them basically exploded. The plastic shredded, and the monitor toppled (thankfully, forward onto the desk, undamaged).

Anyway, stands were cheap. Monitors are fine.

I want to get a better solution. I thought about those arms you can get to mount on the wall. The way my desk is situated, the wall is at my back. I prefer it this way, for several reasons that aren't relevant.

So, there is no wall behind my desk from my seated point of view. Well, there is, but it's three metres across the room.

So I need a mount that will attach to the desk itself. There is no lip on that side of the desk, so there is no way to attach a c-clamp mount.

The only solution I can see is a plate mount like used for a wall. What I can't find is a plate mount that can be used *backwards*. *Facing* the surface that will be the opposite direction from the monitors. Right? I need something that will screw into the back of my desk, and support two arms that hold the monitors above my desktop.

I cannot find such a thing. Does anyone know of a wall-mounted solution that might allow for a creative use of the mounting plate backward? Or the proper search term to find such a thing? "wall mount" has been useless, "desk mount" worse, and "plate mount" got me a bunch of horizontal plates supporting ordinary columns. I found one solution that would involve drilling through the desktop rather than the back of the desk, but it wouldn't be rotatable.

Does such a thing exist? Am I bound to just use a flat-plate dual arm through the desktop? Or individual (and metal) columns? I'm worried about the amount of desktop real estate I'd be losing if they were that far forward.

Help me, Fedi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!