Office Chairs Are Scam

Re:Office Chairs Are Scam by h2odragon on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:13PM (#26919809)

All those adjustments are like getting into the internals of your X configuration so you can have just the right gradients on the title bars vs window borders. Great for the few who want that (guilty!); but beyond useless to the people who want to get shit done.

Those classic wooden chair designs are not just "good defaults" for all the adjustments that could be made, but they allow room for different body shapes and the different ways people find comfortable to settle their meat sacks.

For my purposes, the optimal chair has room for one and a half of me, plus a baby goat.

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Re:Office Chairs Are Scam by Brian_K_White on Saturday April 24, 2021 @04:00AM (#26923152)

As a cyclist, who sees people who apparently think the same way about their Walmart bikes with their knees up to their chins... I say that ignorance of proper setup does not mean there is no such thing as proper setup, or no reason for it.

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Re:Office Chairs Are Scam by h2odragon on Saturday April 24, 2021 @10:34AM (#26925106)

Absolutely agreed; but how hard have you found it to help someone with their bike's adjustments? I've seen a growing trend of people not wanting the responsibility for such things; they wont futz with it, if you do its all your fault now and they expect you to own their problems.

Its the same attitude that we used to get when we fixed computers for family; but generalized.

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Re:Office Chairs Are Scam by Brian_K_White on Saturday April 24, 2021 @05:09PM (#26928274)

Agree on all counts.

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