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[–] anhydrous 5 points 6 days ago

I use all 3 and more. That's because I can't sit in the same position all day.

[–] pageflight 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No no they're not "wrong," they're slouched in defeat because someone stole their keyboard, mouse, and desktop, leaving them with only a 1280x760 DVI monitor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

not so fast, pal! DVI is perfectly fine!

[–] ikidd 8 points 6 days ago

Needs more testicles hanging out the side of the boxers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

My back hurts when I see a colleague on a zoom meeting sitting like that cat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm the first one. I wish I knew why but whenever I try and sit anything like the second diagram I'll get neck and back pain all day. I have hypotonia tho so maybe it's that?

[–] ylph 73 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Two CRT monitors. What a lad.

[–] Syltti 6 points 6 days ago

When a mother fucker has TWO CRTs, you know they're ballin'.

You'll never catch them wearing them fake Jays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good luck reaching for the keyboard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Place the keyboard on your lap.

[–] RedditWanderer 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Legend. We have the same shoes and socks. I'm not sexy enough for white pants though, i might need to create a language or two before I can do that.

[–] ylph 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was the 90s.. rules were different then ! I still have my white pants deep in the closet somewhere.. they haven't seen the light of day in a while though :)

I worked at Bell Labs back when this photo was taken - my office pretty much looked exactly like this, chair, furniture, Sun SPARCStation on the floor...

Bjarne still rocks white pants sometimes to this day though ! And the same haircut - he really committed to the look :)

[–] RedditWanderer 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are only two kinds of haircuts: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody has.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How is there not a thin sheen of Cheeto dust or kebab juice over any of that. What kind of madman is this?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

a norwegian.

[–] RedditWanderer 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A man of culture. One of a kind

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My neck wishes this weren’t so true.

[–] SpaceNoodle 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

How about with a friend?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Ziglin 2 points 6 days ago

My cat let's me know that I'm slow because of my bad posture every time I feed it too…

[–] knexcar 8 points 1 week ago

And my crack

[–] RedditWanderer 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

To be pedantic, that isn't even right or wrong posture at a computer. The cat one isn't wrong either.

What they tell you at the big big studios where they have ergonomist and fancy massages, is to change your posture often. Any one posture for a long time is bad, even straight (albeit one that causes the less stress in a given moment).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The best posture is the next posture.

[–] RedditWanderer 1 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Change posture, but also get up and move around. Take breaks away from the screen to let your eyes rest.

Of course doing this can also mess up the flow of ideas sometimes. Nothing worse than coming back and trying to recapture the zone you were in.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

get a motorized height adjustable standing desk, an egg timer and a slow treadmill, set the timer to 16 minutes and 43 seconds, every time the timer runs out, rotate between standing position, sitting position and walking position while resetting the timer.

When you're ready to level up, upgrade from just an office chair for the sitting positon to a mixture of office chair, saddle chair, prayer mat and stout 19th century four-legged wooden stool certified handmade in the russian far east. Rotation as follows:

standing -> office chair -> treadmill -> saddle chair -> standing -> prayer mat -> treadmill -> flat stool -> repeat.

When you're ready for the endgame, upgrade from an egg timer to a stochastic bell timer powered by a brass cyclograph. This eliminates any possible linear relationship with your BRAC cycle, ensuring a well-rounded dynamic stress regimen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At which level are you currently? I am level 2.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I've got the fourth Sharma, I used points to get a large Austrian man to walk over the left side of my body.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And please don't confuse straight with upright. Once you start measuring with a straightedge you've lost the plot, what you're rather looking for is minimising the sum of squares of muscle tension differences (because tensegrity)... even of the muscles you're not aware of. That's why it's utterly, utterly unlikely that you'll ever get good posture by means of holding any position. Exercise fostering good movement patterns (and with that solid mobility) is the way to do it, look into the direction of callisthenics, internal martial arts, suchlike. Things that are whole movement systems. If in doubt go swimming: Because it's weightless it's pretty much impossible to make anything worse because there's really no way to do it wrong. Short of drowning.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Buys a nice ergonomic chair. Sits in it like this.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

This was literally how I was sitting when I read this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SHRIMP POSTURERERS RISE UP!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I tried but mah back!! 😵

[–] FauxLiving 1 points 6 days ago
[–] stupidcasey 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not no more I don't, get a stool it will save your back, I'm serious.

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[–] Fingolfinz 10 points 1 week ago

My neck, my back, and weirdly my right knee, are fucking pissed at me today. My penis and crack are good though at least.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I wish it wouldn't be that complicated just to sit. I'm a short man (5'6") and it's impossible to sit correctly in most office chairs, as the seats are simply too big. My knees can't bend if my back is against the backrest.

Also they are often too tall and my feet don't touch the ground, so I need a foot stool.

Even fucking desks are too high.

So I have a chair that's too big and too high, and a desk that's also too high when I'm sitting.

I hate that the world is standardized around an average. Finding an appropriate desk or chair for smaller people, at an affordable price, is a pretty good challenge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

They make smaller chairs. Blame your employer for not buying sufficient variety. Also a proper ergonomic chair should be able to bring the back forward or the seat back

Or get a cushion to put behind you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm a short man (5'6")

Worldwide average height for men is around 5'7", you're average. I'm guessing you just live in a region that skews taller.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am just reading this on my laptop, sitting on a bed in shrimp-like shape with laptop (a ThinkPad of course) on top of egg carton (called Eggsbox 360 based on The Two Ronnies skit) which is on top of a pillow while listening to music from a CD being played on an e-waste sourced 5.25" DVD drive attached via SATA to USB that can only reliably load CDs (perhaps because the USB provided power is less than half max spec of 2A) and accessing the internet via USB cellular modem using cheap IoT SIM that has broken (not applied) throttling (instead of 64/32kbps).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

IoT SIM that has broken (not applied) throttling (instead of 64/32kbps).

I wonder how did you do that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I did nothing. After using either the default 200MB or the 80MB I pay for it's supposed to be throttled, but that kinda just... doesn't happen. I activated a 2nd SIM of those yesterday, same thing. The most I used in a month was some 28GB (out of 80MB), getting me as much as 150Mbps in cities covered by LTE-A from Telekom (this SIM can connect to Telekom, Orange and O2).

Though I just went back to my previous carrier and keep this as a backup. The second SIM I put into a USB modem. May come in handy if I finally decide to try Tailscale.

Searching around, I found someone with the same "issue" for a different provider on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/ntul3w/unlimited_data_sim_for_only_45year/

Also a one that was meant to have 64kbps unlimited, but it just... wasn't throttled. But based on one comment they fixed it later which I assume will happen here too. Almost 4 months so far though.

But perhaps they just don't care that much. Based on ToS I can be charged extra €1.30/GB (excl. VAT) since I use permanent roaming, and perhaps I will as it is defined as >50% of usage in EU roaming for the past 4 months. Maybe they just rely on that to kick in...? Also the data warning states "...may be probably temporarily restricted.", which is just so oddly phrased.

But most likely scenario, someone just fucked up the config.

I found yet another such fuck up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/c6ilbp/bought_the_new_15gb_international_data_pass_didnt/

Dude used up 24GB out of 15GB high-speed data pass.

It can happen both ways though. My current carrier accidentally (I hope) set the limit to half the one stated in ToS. This was reversed already. I assume it was an accident, because they plainly stated the incorrect limit in SMS as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I stand most of the time. I have a wobble board which helps - standing in one place isn't possible. I've been interested in a treadmill for a while, but they make it hard to do anything else and sometimes I want to sit or lean back.

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[–] Zexks 6 points 1 week ago

Get ur cams out my office.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Its all a question of time. 9am? Perfect posture. 4:30? Breaking my back

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