jackoneill

joined 1 year ago
[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the brand I went with was concept seating. I’m about 6’7” around 400 pounds - fat gut, big bones, decent amount of muscle - was a lineman before I got crippled. I am 100% a fatass, no excuse, but also big in other dimensions as well. Most chairs, even the big and tall ones from staples and the like, will get a bit of a gangster lean after a year or so of use as the chairs base plate slowly warps and tack welds come loose. You can grind it down and patch up the welds, but not much to be done about the plate warp. The concept seating chair I got has a massively thick base plate that seems like it will hold up to a lot more. One other thing I really like about the one I got is that it doesn’t have the most common failure point, the piston. Instead it has a fuck off huge solid threaded shaft that you use to screw the chair to the right height then lock it with a massive lock washer. Additionally it doesn’t recline or move in any other way other than to spin and roll. You can loosen bolts to adjust the fit then tighten them back up, but nothing is easily adjustable with levers and stuff which I love because those are just failure points and I’d much rather spend the time to set it up once Ave never worry about it again

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I second the desk chair as a fat crippled IT worker that spends 10+ hours a day in a desk chair. I used to get a new $500ish chair every 3 or so years when it fell apart. This last time I saved up and dropped about 2.5k on a really nice chair rated for 24/7 use by someone much heavier than I am and it’s a life changer for my back, and this thing should last a lot longer

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I ran an Apple TV in the living room for a long time to access my Plex server and whatever subscription my wife has this month. As time went on it got more and more glitchy until it came to the point where I had to power cycle the thing every few days. Replaced it with a cheap fire stick, annoyed the crap out of me. Replaced that with a cheap Roku, it was only slightly better than the shitty firestick.

My wife got me the NVIDIA shield pro for Christmas this year, and I picked up the p2920 controller for it. My god this thing is awesome - not only is it the best tv box I’ve ever used, I can use moonlight to play games on my rig or GeForce now to stream games. I highly recommend this thing

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Not paying them means you are not supporting them

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (9 children)

In our society piracy is always justified

Fuck every last one of these corporations

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah you can have YouTube premium and also use an ad blocker…. Being mad at YouTube is just the hot thing right now

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I use old iPhones as video baby monitors in much the same way with an app called AlfredCamera, works pretty good for a free app on scrap hardware

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

But then TikTok would be on my vlan….no….

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I have a pihole, I love it. My wife hates it so much I made her her own Wi-Fi network on her own vlan that’s isolated from the rest of the network and uses Google dns. My wife likes to click ads and watch TikTok and all that shit is blocked on my network

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Man I’m tired of hearing this

We would all like actual public transport in America

However, we have WAY BIGGER PROBLEMS in America than our means of transit and we are totally unable to address those. Priorities man

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I love that, the dark bits look like shadows and it gives it a weird sense of depth, very cool

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can install Cygwin in windows and do everything you list but if you don’t NEED windows for something why use it?

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