I dont have a fancy ergo chair and have been working from homes for 4 years now.

A few things to check.
Is your desk high enough. If you are 6ft or taller and have a standard desk the answer is likely no.

Are your monitors high enough, if using a laptop the answer will again likely be no but if tall even stock monitor stands can be quite short. I have mine mounted to the wall on adjustable brackets but those brackets that attach to the desk are also good.

Are you moving around enough? When working from home it can be easy to fall into a trap of not moving as much as you might have done in an office where meetings or speaking to a colleague often means getting up off your bum.

Markus ftw!

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/markus-office-chair-glose-black-20103101/

poprock wrote:

We use those same Eames knock-offs at the actual studio. Good for low-ish desk heights. The knock-offs don’t stand up to full-on office use too well (we have to replace one or two every year) but they should be great for him office use where you take more care of things.

Yeah totally agree.
My last employer had them and they weren't great for being chucked around the office on the regular. Fine for home use.
Employer also made the mistake of opting for the beige/grey colour and they started to look grubby.

Also just realised its the high back version I have but much the same thing.

acemuzzy wrote:

Markus ftw!

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/markus-office-chair-glose-black-20103101/

Good for gaming just tilt it back, rest your head, put feet on desk and play away.

LivDiv wrote:

I dont have a fancy ergo chair and have been working from homes for 4 years now. A few things to check. Is your desk high enough. If you are 6ft or taller and have a standard desk the answer is likely no. Are your monitors high enough, if using a laptop the answer will again likely be no but if tall even stock monitor stands can be quite short. I have mine mounted to the wall on adjustable brackets but those brackets that attach to the desk are also good. Are you moving around enough? When working from home it can be easy to fall into a trap of not moving as much as you might have done in an office where meetings or speaking to a colleague often means getting up off your bum.

Cheers Liv. Some of this is good.

I think it's definitely my monitor not helping. As it is a bit low and doesn't adjust that high up. But I'm looking at fixing that right now, so that will help with the neck ace I've been getting.

As for moving around it depends. I try to get out each day and walk for 30 mins. And then try to stand and walk around a bit each hour (the Apple Watch helps here), but somedays of back-to-back Zoom/Teams calls it isn't always possible.

Looking at switching gas & elec and a lot want to to install a smart meter. A few years ago they couldn't handle LED lights and dimmers and produced incorrect readings.

Any idea if those issues are fixed nowadays?

Hodge360 wrote:

There seems to be a 50/50 split in my work with people inputting their name as surname, firstname. Anyone notice this with their online meetings? It seems strange but maybe there are reasons?

My online meetings through work use my work generated outlook contact card, which puts surname firstname. If I've got the option I always go firstname surname.

I go with surname firstname surname.

It helps that my name is James Bond mind.

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

Is anyone up on home energy storage and solar panels or, if not, know where to point me for information that isn’t directly written or funded by solar panel and home battery suppliers and installers? Thanks!

We’ve got some but I don’t really understand the system yet. We have a gas boiler, heating a water tank, that supplies water to our underfloor heating as well as our taps. But then we also have solar panels that heat an element inside the same water tank. So our solar panels just reduce the amount of work the gas boiler needs to do. I think.

That was installed in 2007/8, so I reckon technology will have moved on a lot.

Obviously, this is a very different idea from having solar panels that supply you with electricity.

You'll probably want a battery. Depending on how much you can generate, and what you want to power, this doesn't have to be something like the Tesla powerwall. A lot of 'off grid' setups use car batteries. If you're not really bothered about trying to get all your power from the solar, and you're just wanting to do some good by using your roof space to make clean energy and get power at night from the Grid, then you won't need a battery.

It's worth noting that they scrapped the Feed In Tarrif, and it's been replaced by something called the Smart Export Guarantee. This is required for any company with 150,000 customers. This is the one for British Gas for example.

This guy is quite good on this sort of thing, and he's done a "what you need to know" about the Powerwall, but it would apply to any solar and battery installation. I suspect you wouldn't make some of the mistakes he did given your job, but it's worth a watch.

This is also worth a watch, prices may be slightly outdated by now, but still gives some good info.

"Get over here" or "Come here"?

nick_md wrote:

"Get over here" or "Come here"?

What? Plz explain?

LivDiv wrote:

Get is default. Come is said if you do the harpoon twice in quick succession I think.

I think third but that makes sense, likely not in arcade or early conversions until they saw people spamming the move and added it to increase variety

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

nick_md wrote:

"Get over here" or "Come here"?

What? Plz explain?