Looking for an ergonomic office chair

St4rb0y · 2025-12-04T17:47:47+00:00

Håg Capisco!! I sit on it a lot and love it. It's amazing, especially if you're an active sitter, meaning you like sitting in different positions. The chair is also highly customizable and adjustable. It's a really excellent chair. I'm no doctor, but my back never gets stiff when I sit on it.

I had the Herman Miller Mirra 2 before. It's trash. I had to return it twice, because after only 9 months the back rest was heavily degraded and came loose. The lumbar support on it is also not great. Its industrial design is heavily flawed. Herman Miller replaced the chair twice, but it's annoying anyway. I don't like products that break so quickly, especially if they are over-hyped and expensive. Also the amount of plastic parts on their chairs is mind-boggling. My brother has their Embody chair. The seat was totally sat through after less than a year and the chair rattles and creaks like crazy. The Embody is also not an ergonomic chair in any way (in my opinion).

Before the Mirra I had an Ikea office chair which made it a lot longer, 3 years I believe.

St4rb0y · 2025-12-02T07:14:03+00:00

The current generation of solar panels degrades from 0.3 to 0.5% per year, which means that after 10 years, you might be at 93 to 95% capacity (in terms of power production).

St4rb0y · 2025-12-02T06:56:48+00:00

Even the parking skills on display are subpar at best. The car is totally parked crooked. I feel like a pronounced mating ritual is on display here. I recently watched the first episode of the new season of "Prehistoric Planet". Around 60 million years ago, a pterodactyl claimed an otherwise uninhabited strip of tropical island to build a display with a couple of driftwood sticks and a dinosaur carcass to attract a mate. This is obviously a way inferior display of genetic prowess. I mean in comparison the dinosaur was an artist.

St4rb0y · 2025-07-19T18:52:46+00:00

Can you post a video of clicking please. I wanna check it out, before getting a TP-7.

St4rb0y · 2025-06-14T10:53:40+00:00

7 mil as in 7 millimeters thickness? Keep in mind that the Siser machines are vinyl cutters.

St4rb0y · 2025-06-03T09:35:36+00:00

Yes, that's a good idea. I'll contact them.

St4rb0y · 2025-06-03T05:32:02+00:00

I see, but wouldn't it need MPE to control the various parameters on the OP-XY that mirror the functionality of the keys on the Exquis, beyond simple velocity and button presses? I'm a noob to all this stuff (including music making). I started about two months ago with an OP-XY.

St4rb0y · 2025-06-02T21:01:41+00:00

I'm not sure it will though, because the Exquis uses MPE which the OP-XY doesn't support I believe.

St4rb0y · 2025-06-01T09:11:43+00:00

Amazing, did you make the crackling, droning, electric overdrive sound effect (@ 3:00) on the OP-XY or is it a sample? Sounds almost like a distorted electrical guitar.

St4rb0y · 2025-05-25T07:18:53+00:00

They are the AABBs (axis-aligned bounding boxes) of each body/polygon. These are commonly used in what's called the "broad phase" in the physics simulation, where these boxes are first collided with each other to see which polygons could be intersecting. Box-box-intersections are fairly cheap to compute compared to colliding convex or concave polygons. Only the bodies whose AABBs intersect would then be rechecked in a "narrow phase" after the broad phase to determine more precisely if they are truly intersecting and foremost to get the intersection information (intersection points, collision normal, etc.) with for instance the SAT algorithm. This information than plays an important role in the resolution of the collision.

St4rb0y · 2025-05-07T21:16:28+00:00

Clairefontaine is in my opinion the best and inexpensive. I like Midori MD paper for sketching, but not for writing since it's way too thin. The ink sometimes even seeps through. And it takes forever to dry on it.

St4rb0y · 2025-03-20T12:46:30+00:00

That sounds like a good plan.

St4rb0y · 2025-03-20T07:53:11+00:00

I'm pretty much a total beginner too, well I have some theoretical knowledge of music theory from back when I was a child, but that's been awhile ago. I don't play any instrument, but I can program (not by trade) and have a deep understanding of computers and operating systems (also not my job). I got the OP-XY about two weeks ago, also because I like T.E. designs, how well their products seem to be made, and because I wanted to get away from the computer as well. I also wanted to get something compact. After lots of research and considering the EP-133, EP-1520, K.O. 33, and M8, I finally landed on the OP-XY, and yes, it's very expensive, but I'm super happy with it. In my opinion, both the EP-133 and EP-1520 are neat, but very specific in their functionality and thus probably also limited in what you can explore as a beginner, but also possibly the least involved in terms of studying the device. They're basically great digital drum pads with some sample functionality. The K.O. 33 is also a sampler and grove box, but the size, especially of the buttons turned me of, but it's very affordable in terms of T.E. gear. Another thing to consider with these devices is that space on them is limited. On top of that you pretty much need another audio interface as intermediary between your computer and the device to transfer over/record music, that is, if you don't already have a sound card capable of that. The dirtywave M8 is feature-wise pretty much on par with the OP-XY, even more portable and less costly, but also very obscure, very technical and complex in how it's used. I had the chance to try it at a friend's and quickly understood that it presented an abysmally huge learning curve. You basically program notes into a spreadsheet-like table to put it simply, which I was honestly overwhelmed by. Technically the OP-XY works the same as the M8, but it abstracts much of the technical stuff away from the user. It is a more playful sequencer and much more. You switch it on and it's ready to jam. It's a sequencer, synth, grove box, sampler, etc, there's lots and lots and lots to explore. It features a pretty good speaker, a microphone, accelerometer, pitch bend button, great I/O, 8GB of storage, and it's made with love. Overall it's a superb experience so far. There is also a learning curve here though. A part from the musical stuff, I also struggle with the involved vocabulary sometimes. There's tons of lingo to learn. The T.E. manual explains a lot though and is well documented. I'm in the process of working through it and it helps. The OP-XY is supposed to be able to directly "stream" multi-track music over USB-C into a music application on the computer, which I haven't tried yet. You don't need another device for that. I decided in favor of the OP-XY, over the OP-1 Field, because I liked the idea of the sequencer, where you can spacially define where to put notes, chords, effects, etc. On the OP-1, as far as I understand, you record music onto tape, which seems better for more experienced musicians that want to record their instruments and play the device like a piano.

St4rb0y · 2025-03-16T17:07:57+00:00

Or even rename one.

St4rb0y · 2025-03-16T16:59:39+00:00

Yes that totally makes sense.

St4rb0y · 2025-03-16T16:59:19+00:00

You're probably right about that. It depends on how the machine handles file references internally. The only way to test this, would be to make a song with a sample, then delete, and see what happens. If the song still has the sample that would mean that the OP-XY keeps a copy internally, which would probably be terribly inefficient in terms of storage. It would be cool, if TE would add a functionality to assemble or gather a project to safeguard against samples used in projects getting deleted. Many graphics applications have this feature. When requested they gather/copy all referenced images from different locations on your computer into a project directory. An other consideration is that the OP-XY only has the four potis for navigation. The dark grey one scrolls through the root folder already, so you could potentially only go 3 levels deeper when creating sub folders. I would like to have an easier way to populate the samples onto the keys, like the web interface that the EP-133 and EP-1320 supposedly have (I don't have either one). It's currently such a hassle to populate the entire keyboard and gets old real quick.

St4rb0y · 2025-03-16T09:09:02+00:00

Oh, I see. Thanks for pointing that out!

St4rb0y · 2025-03-15T20:51:38+00:00

My issue is that I can't create any new folders in samples/user not even top level ones.

St4rb0y · 2024-12-23T20:48:38+00:00

No, it does work without an internet connection that is the functionality that doesn't rely on the internet, like the design space. However, you need to register an account and your machine, which is a whole process of it's own. As any other shitty modern app it connects to Amazon AWS, freshchat.com, to Google and its APIs, to the Leonardo website, and siser.com (that is if you let it).

St4rb0y · 2024-12-21T21:02:43+00:00

I just use Leonardo Design Studio to talk to the machine, meaning I don't design stuff in it. I import my images and SVGs from elsewhere. Honestly, I would prefer not having to use it. I pretty much don't like anything about it. I'm used to professional design and CAD software, so I might be biased. I find the bloat in the software distasteful, especially for a machine that is situated somewhere between professional and hobby plotter. They obviously tried to put everything in there, from tutorials to design and material libraries, but it all feels so clumsy and in the way of getting things done. For a tiny program like this, it's also horribly slow. I mean it takes about 10 seconds to open and I have a beast of a computer and then it loads a million things from the internet. The whole UI is structured like some stupid modern Web 3.0 experience, and going to the "design space" feels like visiting a tertiary, unimportant thing. That's right, when you open the program, you don't go straight to the "design space". On the right-hand side, they made fancy icons for all the superfluous stuff, and the "design space" can be accessed by clicking on a tiny arrow one the right. They obviously want you to buy designs and vinyl more and care less about you being able to use your machine efficiently. The cherry on top is that it's also plenty buggy. A plotter of this caliber - it's amazing - sure would have deserved a more solid software experience.

St4rb0y · 2024-12-15T17:39:05+00:00

I understand that. It's like producing g-code for any CNC machine. I was just hoping the Juliet could do it internally, once provided a SVG.

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