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Aeron chair.

Aeropress.

uTorrent, the older versions.

Dead serious about uTorrent. One of the best designed and engineered pieces of software ever. Everything you need, where you expect it to be, doing exactly what it should be doing, and nothing more.

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Check out qBittorrent. It's a modern OSS version that is built from the ground up, cross platform, and inspired by those older versions.

> uTorrent

If you want something as deadly simple, have a gander at Free Download Manager.[1] It also does download management - a genuine improvement over browsers. Open source.

[1]: http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Nowadays, I use Transmission. It's extremely simple with no visual clutter, open source + no ads, has command line and daemon features if you're into that sort of thing. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Sitting on one now. What makes you enjoy its design? I have bought the remastered one a week ago and find myself difficult to fit into it properly (the sizing is right). I feel like the lower back support requires you to fit very rigidly in and one of the reasons I got it was it was advertised in one of promo videos as the chair that moves with the body. I am quite average height and a bit below average on weight but wondering what prevents me from really loving it. It's one of the most beautifully built, though that's for sure.

I have the adjustable lumbar support, and I know what you mean about fitting into it. Wiggle your rear end a bit and see if you don't settle into place; I've found it makes a world of difference. Failing that, perhaps switching to the non-adjustable support might help.

Asking out of ignorance, what sets EIZO monitors apart from other monitors?

Built-in colour management is really quite well done. Corner-to-corner evenness in illumination, true 10bit per colour. You pay for the privilege though.

Beyond the features they're also very nicely built.

Really not cheap though (for the high end ones I'm talking about). For a _lot_ less money if you weren't bothered about perfection then one of the Dell Ultrasharp displays would likely get you 95+% of the way there.

Can confirm. Ultrasharps aren't the best displays I've ever seen, but they are the best displays I've ever seen whose purchase doesn't feel like a serious investment.

They care for eye easiness.

I have a model from nearly 5 years ago (2 in use, 2 stocked) as I'd like to give less stress to my eyes for everyday work.

Those are one of last LCD models as I don't like LED ones.

Since I discovered the Aeron stool (http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/stools/aeron-st...) + standing desk combo for me years ago my back just thanks me every day!

I'm not sure I understand this product: a chair intended for sitting in at a standing desk. Is it to prevent adjusting your standing desk up/down throughout the day?

I haven't used bittorrent since about 2010. Would a 2006 era uTorrent client still be able to speak to today's network?

Yes, mostly due to protocol backwards compatibility. If you stopped using it because of ads, check out pi-hole.

Fairly easy to download uTorrent 2.x and it works fine on Windows 10 :)

Deluge and qBitTorrent look much the same.

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