Holy serial upvotes, Batman!

@RubyJunk My opinion as an outsider: This site is certainly different from many other SE sites. One problem arises due to the very nature of "hardware recommendations". Most people don't need them everyday. This is completely different to sites about programming or other hobbies. There, you will have a very large fan-base that are willing to spend much time on the site.

I maybe wrong, but I believe a majority of users will be one time visitors.

@halirutan and that your answers are valid for a year at most.

Questions about non-computer hardware. such as desks or chairs, are off-topic here, right?

I theeenk so.

Though i do joke that my desk is an essential part of my computing hardware.

@JourneymanGeek Uh, yes. I forgot this aspect completely.

@michaelpri It's an interesting topic. What we sometimes do on mathematica.se is that we allow off topic stuff that is really related to be posted on meta. For instance we have a community poll Q&A that is highly interesting but would be off topic by the rules of the main site.

@halirutan on SU we discuss it on chat ;p

@JourneymanGeek The problem with that the information will get lost soon. If you want to have the opinion of many users it needs to be visible for quite some time.

@halirutan amusingly that's how we did hardware recommendation related stuff

and didn't work too bad

@JourneymanGeek @michaelpri Regarding the chair question, there are some reviews online and as it turns out, the good stuff is pretty expensive.

That said, wouldn't meta be the right place to ask whether something's on topic?

@JourneymanGeek The answer would obviously be no :-)

@JourneymanGeek That's what I'm talking about :-)

thi

secretlab.sg/product/thronev2

this seems nice (and locally available)

@JourneymanGeek And the price is not too bad.

Looks like I can use this one for my F1 racing car too.

;p

(oh well, if my previous workplace closes down, and they sell off stuff, I hope they'll let me know ;p)

@JourneymanGeek I'm working in a university. We have chairs.

Just chairs.

@JourneymanGeek Oh, funny story, we indeed got new ones that really looked awesome. The problem was that they are so prone to static charging through your clothes, that I build a custom made lighting conductor for my colleague.

I preferred to keep my old chair.

At the moment I'm unemployed. Best prospect is at a startup (and hopefully they get back to me soon). Their chairs don't look that good tho

Oh, or yoga balls.

Yoga balls are the bomb.

@JourneymanGeek You mean the big gummy things? I never tried sitting on them for several hours. Did you?

@halirutan yeah

Love em

but my current one got packed away cause we have guests and I have no idea where it is

I should just buy a new one, they're about 30 dollars or so. But they're a very love em or hate em thing.

Hello

lolo

"yoga balls"

Should I leave?

daf*q?

What is that?

@RubyJunk Cheaper than Aeons chairs..

@RubyJunk its a large inflatable ball large enough to sit on.

xD

amazon.com/Aeons-CA8212-Black-Bentwood-Chair-Black/dp/…

Is that an Aeon chair?

rofl

no

@RubyJunk Yes. Almost :-)

I think I'm missing something ;P

amazon.com/Aeron-Task-Chair-Herman-Miller/dp/B003M1C7XW

blog.codinghorror.com/investing-in-a-quality-programming-chair

rofl

@halirutan that man's responsible for a good chunk of my current rig

Even if I went 4k/980ti before he did.

@RubyJunk caught up? ;p

My home chair is er ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20196812/#/20196812

One of these

the pleather on the arms is flaking

tho I have an old battered army uniform with the arms cut off covering the back, which is like so wonderfully comfy

Fudge the fudge ma fudga ma fudge.

I'm banned from flagging for the next 7 days... ;(

@Zizouz212 xD

Poor you..

Also, I hereby declare @Andy to be a cheater.

At what?

Andy: 82 helpful flags

Ah wats?

trolololol

@Zizouz212 I have 6 helpful flags :)

Me: 26 helpful flags and banned!

Haha

Hate it hate it Hate it when that happens!

I have 6 helpful flags, and six in total as well

I don't flag much stuff

34 post flags -> 23 helpful, 11 declined.

3 comment flags -> 3 helpful

\o/

Andy is a cheater! He's got the comment bot thingy ma blingy!

Yep :)

I'm soo awesome :D

-_-

:D:D::D::D:D::D:D:D::D::D:D

Some of my emoticons have 4 eyes xD

This person recommends buying a FX-4350

This can't be true

Don't know what that is

:(

Hey, do you mind doing me a favour?

What's that?

As in, what kind of favor

Can you ask on meta why this should be allowed (as it recommends multiple things, no clear recommendation, and the OP also has another answer?)

I get random 403s when I try to access Meta...

??

It doesn't work?

I get 403 (forbidden)

hidemyass.com

Proxy server?

Wait what?

Use a proxy server

Such as...

hidemyass.com

hide.me

Both are free proxies @Zizouz212

sigh Too much work...

try hide.me

that one is pretty easy to use

Still...

Wut?

Anyways, thanks :) (I also have to go)

Just type in the website and press "Visit Anonymously"

Pretty simple :)

Gimmethemetaplz xD

But bye :)

You should ask that on

Why you can't connect

Unless that one doesn't work either?

sigh I'll be attacked... I bet it has something to to with HTTPS

@RubyJunk Nah, it works

But I imagine the response will be... Just use the darn normal HTTP damn it!

Anyways, now I've really got to go :/

Holy crap I didn't know we had https!!!!

OMG awesome

Thx for letting me know.

@Zizouz212 no automation on HR. It's too small to train the bot on. For comparison, I had over 9k flags on SO before it could reliably flag how I do.

What do we think?

@Andy Actually? Wow, then you're pretty good :)

@ArtOfCode What do you mean?

I think it's a good question actually

@Zizouz212 Debating whether it's requirements too broad

Nah, I think it's actually quite specific to be honest: the application would be very picky to get through to

Point

Can you do me a favour?

I can't access meta over HTTPS :(

@Zizouz212 You know what you said the response was going to be?

Response?

"Use the normal HTTP, dammit!"

Oh... You read through the transcript...

I'm forbidden from Meta!

Meta doesn't carry secure information, why not just use standard HTTP?

Ah, wtf, I'm posting it anyway, and whoever says that... I will...

@ArtOfCode There's some spam thing going in our neighbourhood -> Everything gets intercepted, has some JS injected, and you get redirected to random ad sites

Besides, you don't find it weird that I'd get a 403 through HTTPS? If I were to get an error, I would've expected something else...

Maybe a 500 or something along those lines

@Zizouz212 I get a 403 after a big red Chrome warning page.

@Zizouz212 LOL. Get an adblocker.

You see! It's not just me!!!

@ArtOfCode I wonder if my school has an adblocker... Pretty sure they do

Alright, what should I name my title...

@Zizouz212 Doubt they've got an adblocker, but they might have a malicious-code-blocker.

@Zizouz212 Something sane, please ;)

Hmmm... At least I know that the sites that they try to redirect to are blocked...

@ArtOfCode Such as...

@Zizouz212 Not a clue :)

Ooh!

YELP! Meta forbids me from metaing!

xD

I feel really stupid laughing at my own title...

sigh Who can I ask?

@Zizouz212 I did say sane...

lol

Who's a sane person around here?

"Why does Meta over HTTPS give me a 403 error?"

^ sane

Nah, it's not fun enough...

I know the answer to "why doesn't Meta work on HTTPS", but I don't know why it gives a 403.

@Zizouz212 You realise I'll just edit the insane title you're going to put on it? ;)

I can easily rollback :)

@Zizouz212 Now, which hammer do I use...

lol, I'm practically helpless here... Banned from nearly everything... Meta, flags, reviews, whatevers :/

@Zizouz212 You're not banned from review, as far as I know.

Nah, making fun of the fact that I can't really review