I got my current chair at my university surplus, and the casters are absolutely awful. I practically have to pick it up to move it.
If you like these, Iām ordering a set immediately haha. I was looking at the product page when you posted them a few days ago, but didnāt pull the trigger yet.
I know you probably wonāt be able to judge the durability immediately, but curious nonetheless.
Also, for everyone here:
Yeah thatās the tricky thing with theseā¦ they all feel like youāre sliding across frozen glass and you first put them onā¦ It takes many weeks before you start to notice things are a bit wonky. If the product page is correct though and they use the kinds of bearings they show on the product page then I would expect these to perform a lot better for a lot longer.
Decided just to go ahead and get them. I got a $25 Amazon gift card from my neighbor for Christmas, didnāt know what to get myself.
If these are good, itāll be a nice bump in daily comfort, if not, thereās always returns 
Iāve never used rollerblade wheels on my chair before, just the crappy default wheels on all of the chairs Iāve owned. Excited to see the difference.
Youāll love it.
I had an office chair like that many years ago. It didnāt have fancy casters, just good ones that happened to work really well. I hated it: each time I would cross my legs, it would slide backward, it would move as I moved in the chair, like moving backward if I suddenly jerked forward to see something upclose, just by reaction because the friction was so low.
Eventually I went to Carpetright and bought a large rug to put underneath it and slow it down. And in short order, my boss replaced the chair because he hated the rug
Pretty sure google got in trouble for logging GPS history even when users switched it off, and apple canāt actually be switched fully OFF or it can still wake by itself from time to time to log things.
Modern phones have the 3/4/5G modem powered up and initiating before the CPU wakes, so since the modem is a āblack-boxā it could do quite a lot of stuff the user has no control over (think firmware changes or exporting a memory dump)
One option that may provide reprieve from the Apple-Google duopoly is the āLibrem 5ā by Purisim. Its touted as an open hardware Linux phone with removable batteries, and 3 cut-the-power type kill switches for camera, modem, and WiFi/BT. Also modem and WiFi modules are user replaceable via m.2 interfaces.
Iāve been waiting 2+ years since I pre-ordered some waited almost 4 as there have been covid, chip supply, and organizational issues, but around 1600 have shipped so far so it is realā¦eventually
Merry Christmas to you also
Last couple years I just canāt seem to get the holiday vibeā¦ like I feel like itās going to be all cheerful and special
But it just feels like any other dayā¦
I donāt think itās depression?.. but ya never know I guess? Or at least doesnāt seem any more than my baseline for a lot longer than the past couple years
Just seems like since covid everything is blurred together,
Itās getting hard to tell if something happened yesterday or 3 weeks ago
Guess itās hard to be in the spirit when you barely know what season itās supposed to be
Itās the most current time of the year!
I hope youāre all having as good a time as possible
Get out of my head!
Now Iām going to need an RTC implant or somethingā¦
Same. Iām like oh itās Christmasā¦ kā¦
I think it has to do with the whole ājust trying to get through thisā approach of the last couple years or soā¦ just waiting for things to kind of sort themselves outā¦ days blendā¦
Iām using up most of my remaining vacation since itās the end of the calendarā¦ Iāve been off for 2-4 days alreadyā¦ and Iāve been trying to think for the past 5 minutes and I legitimately donāt know if itās Friday Saturday or Sunday
I think my only sense of time lately has been
āHow many days left in the work weekā
Followed by
āHow many days till I have to go back to workā
Itās as is if weāve squeezed all the excitement we can out of life already, the most exciting part of oneās month is learning what the new COVID variant is called.
Thatās how my internal calendar works.
I was getting a bit into that mood, too, latelyā¦ but then I thought, fuck it, Iāve never been much of a christmas person, so I shouldnāt wonder too much why I donāt have this sparkly, comfy christmas feeling^^
Itās very easy to explain it all with the current situation, butā¦ as usual, I try to see the beautiful things instead.
No, I had no real christmas feeling, but we visited my mom yesterday (as usual, on december 24th), had a nice meal, played some games and just had a good time - without any pressure, without expectations or anything, and it was just a wonderful evening.
I know itās hard, hard for those who have health problems, lost their jobs or even people they had close to their hearts. I know this fucking pandemic is massively getting on our nerves, at best, or does some real damage at worst. But still, maybe letās all try to see less clouds and more silver lining - for if everything around is already pretty fucked, it doesnāt make things better to contemplate about how fucked everything is 
That being said, I wish all of you some great holidays, a merry christmas, a (slightly belated) winter solstice or whatever you all celebrate - and if itās just a few days off of work, thatās something to celebrate as well! Thanks for this strange, philosophic, debating, helpful, funny and welcoming community
The missus told me something odd the other day: the pandemic has been around long enough now that there is an entire generation of young chidren who donāt know, or at least canāt really remember a time without masks, isolation and sub-par education through videoconference. It really hit me when she said that. I mean itās an almighty annoyance for us, but imagine what massive disturbance to those kidsā lives itāll be when things return to normal: theyāve never known normal. This is their normal.
Scary shitā¦
Wise words,
I have a really fucked up outlook sometimesā¦ but it does have this itās amusing coping effect sometimes
The times when the depression rears its head, I kinda convince myself that nothing mattersā¦ so much so thatā¦ if nothing matters, then why not enjoy and have fun along the wayā¦ being depressed also doesnāt matter in the end
Hard to put into wordsā¦
Great attitude
I live my life by a few principles, One of those being
No matter what is happening in your life, It could always be worse!
Another relevant one
I have a couple more, but iām sure nobody wants to hear more of my life philosophy
Our 9yo remembers before masks but 2 years is a huge percentage of her lifetime so farā¦ and when we watched a Christmas movie yesterday some sick lady was talking at the family and the kiddo was like Hey! Sheās sick she needs to wear a mask! ā¦ and I was like ā¦ actually yeah that bitch should have beenā¦ itās people that go to work or talk at people who are clearly sick and halfway dying that spread shit aroundā¦ Iāve never liked being around sick people because they are feeling so shitty they donāt have the energy to be considerateā¦ but simply wearing a mask could stop so many illnesses, even if you have to go to work sick forā¦ reasonsā¦ a mask would make a big difference, and if even if we looked at it just in stark corporate terms of productivity and lost profits, it should be supported by companies that sick people who want to work should work from home or wear a mask to 1) stop their putrid plague breath from infecting others, and 2) act as a symbol to people who do interact with them that they are sick and hands should be washed etc after the interaction is concluded.
