I'm looking for recommendations. I usually use Overdrive with books I've downloaded (I think in the epub format). But now I hear that Overdrive is no longer being supported (I think the company wants people to use their Libby app instead). I'm hoping to find something open source and privacy minded. Also not wild about what...
You definitely get what you pay for with office chairs. Moreso the ergonomic variety and not the terrible race-car-seat "gaming chairs".
Honestly, if you're paying less than $500 for a chair, be prepared to buy another one in two years or less if you actually plan to put in many hours on it, especialy at your weight. Cheap chairs start to break down quickly, with their immediately-flattened foam, particle board components, and cheap fabrics. None of it holds up well to pressure or long-term use. Think of the investment in terms of how long you'll use it: if you spend $500 and don't have to replace it for 10+ years, $50 per year is a pretty reasonable price to pay. I know the upfront cost is high, but it makes a huge difference in the quality and lifespan of the chair.
I just bought a chair myself a few days ago that will take most of a month to be constructed and get here, but my $700 Ergohuman chair has had another major failure for the second time in 10 years, so I figured it was time to buy something hopefully even more reliable.
I had to do a lot of research to find something that suits my height (the lumbar on about every chair I've ever seen seems to hit me in the tail bone instead of the lower back and I'm only about 6'1" - or 185 cm to you) and it's getting harder to find good ergonomic chairs with headrests. I ultimately decided to pay a fuckton for a Steelcase chair, as I hate mesh, hate Herman Miller, and I basically spend a third of my life in it. Skimping would be like buying a bad mattress and expecting to feel good after sleeping.
Anyway, I'd look over recommendations from sites or perhaps YouTube channels that review office chairs regularly. Use that to browse around and see what you can find at a cheap price from an online store that might be getting rid of some things that would work for you. (If I hadn't wanted a chair with a headrest, I probably could have gotten the same model on sale from one store for about half the price I paid.)
If you're sedentary and have weight issues (as most of us start to as we age), you definitely have to look out for your back as best you can, in all your furniture. Soon enough, you'll find your back getting tweaked just from laying wrong on the couch or in your bed.
For the last few years franchise movies like star wars, marvel, etc. made money regardless of quality. However now it seems like audiences are being choosier when it comes to these kinds of tentpole releases. I’ve seen some people online say that the movie/theater industry is losing people in general but I don’t think...
You're making the assumption that, since the pandemic ended, people actually want to go to the theater to see movies. They demonstrably do not. People will not go to see a movie they're interested in in the theater; they will only go to the theater to see a movie they are absolutely driven to see immediately. It has to have huge visual spectacle and be truly worthy of their time to waste the time and money to sit in a theater, which no one seems to want to do anymore. It has to be something that needs to be seen on a large screen.
I'm sure Dune will do well later this year and there's been plenty of movies recently that did fine in theaters. But there's going to be plenty more along the way that fall by the wayside despite the fact that they would have been tent pole pictures with guaranteed box office in past years. But people aren't going to show up for things like Indiana Jones or Flash after major failures previously in both of those series.
A northern Utah school district has reversed its earlier committee-based decision that removed the Bible from elementary and junior high school but kept it in high school libraries.
You're at the end of Gen X (as am I), meaning most of the women of your age group that you're probably dating didn't really grow up around video games and probably still see them as a wasteful, childish pastime, which was the general, parochial view of our parents' generation about our hobbies. (Sure, endlessly watch people play sports on television but never waste your time doing something you personally enjoy.)
Meanwhile, those even a few years younger than us grew up in a generation where more and more girls grew up with video games, have a more personal relationship with them, and understand the value of the hobby. That's only increased with time.
My own wife, who is at the older end of the Millenials, grew up playing video games with her younger brothers but never had any real affinity for them. She's never particularly cared about my gaming (something I do now with my daughter), though she's never taken interest in playing anything herself.
Ultimately, you'll probably just have to choose a better class of date.
True, though that's also the UK. They probably have a different attitude toward games than I'm used to and have any experience with. I'm mostly speaking from the viewpoint of different generations in American culture. There's still a certain amount of viewing gaming as a wasteful pastime with no value that permeates multiple cultures even to this day.
A recent and interesting primer on the pre-90s history of industrial music, including early acts, pre-industrial influences on the genre, and its lasting impact on music.
An aircraft heard sounds at 30-minute intervals from the area where the sub disappeared, according to internal e-mails sent to DHS leadership obtained by Rolling Stone
My air conditioning died during a heat wave and then my daughter gave me hand, foot, and mouth disease, so I wasn't feeling like working on music for over a month now. I've just gotten back to working on a remix for someone, which I've mostly been too tired to do, but I at least worked on some arrangement, a simple backing bass arpeggio, vocal effects and mixing, and effects and arrangement of some of the stems. Now I have to go through and spend some time on drum programming and adding some more synths. Hopefully I'll get a lot more done on it over this three-day weekend.
Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating...
Honestly, I mostly used desktop and the official app sometimes (mostly while I was watching TV, like right now). I don't think I'd realized there were third party apps, otherwise I would have been using one before all this mess.
There's also tools you can use to make local downloads of your LJ posts. I did that with all of mine, so I have them stored away as a series of per-month html files of all my posts.
There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would....
I'm trying not to go back. I deleted Reddit off my phone and am avoiding opening it on my computer. But, at the same time, there's not a lot to look at on here, currently. It's a little underwhelming in its current state, but at least reminds me of the level of conversation we used to have 20 years ago on the internet.
Controversial Sheriff with Right-Wing Ties Faces Voters in Washington State [in November 7th election] (boltsmag.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/snohomish-sheriff-election-2023…
X plans to remove news headlines and text in shared articles (www.engadget.com)
Elon Musk said the idea came from him directly....
What app do you use to read ebooks?
I'm looking for recommendations. I usually use Overdrive with books I've downloaded (I think in the epub format). But now I hear that Overdrive is no longer being supported (I think the company wants people to use their Libby app instead). I'm hoping to find something open source and privacy minded. Also not wild about what...
You are a gift. (lemmy.world)
Baked Lab
Microsoft’s cloud ambitions for Windows could kill off desktop PCs – and sooner than we expected (www.techradar.com)
Windows 365 for consumers is imminent? So the rumor mill reckons
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Indiana Jones and Flash flopped hard. Could this be the beginning of the end for franchise films?
For the last few years franchise movies like star wars, marvel, etc. made money regardless of quality. However now it seems like audiences are being choosier when it comes to these kinds of tentpole releases. I’ve seen some people online say that the movie/theater industry is losing people in general but I don’t think...
Day Z 2 revealed by the US Federal Trade Commission (www.pcgamer.com)
God bless disclosure.
Saw this question over in r/Reddit: “If you could get one more season of a TV show, what show would it be?” | What show(s) would you choose?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/493723...
Black man’s picture used for target practice sparks outrage | The Kan… (archive.ph)
Utah school district reverses decision on Bible, returns it to library shelves (thehill.com)
A northern Utah school district has reversed its earlier committee-based decision that removed the Bible from elementary and junior high school but kept it in high school libraries.
What's the age cut off for socially acceptable gaming
So, hear me out....
Trash Theory - "Before Nine Inch Nails: How Industrial Became Pop" (www.youtube.com)
A recent and interesting primer on the pre-90s history of industrial music, including early acts, pre-industrial influences on the genre, and its lasting impact on music.
Searchers for Titanic Tourist Sub Heard ‘Banging’ From Area, Internal Comms Reveal (www.rollingstone.com)
An aircraft heard sounds at 30-minute intervals from the area where the sub disappeared, according to internal e-mails sent to DHS leadership obtained by Rolling Stone
What have you been cooking up in the music lab?
Anyone working on a new tune? Anyone looking for feedback? If so, feel free to share!
Did the reddit hivemind do a 180 or are the people left behind just the people who don't care.
Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating...
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media (catvalente.substack.com)
Everyone needs to read this.
Curious, if you were/are a Reddit user, will you be leaving the platform for good or have you already? CEO has called unpaid moderators' concerns "noise", that will be "passing soon."
There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would....