For the past 12 years I have been using the Steelcase "Please" chair.
https://www.steelcase.com/eu-e...

The plastic hinges do not last longer than 10 years, but the lumbar support of this chair is stellar.
It allows you to lean back and regardless of how you lean back/forward, it supports your whole spine in every position.
Other chairs don't even come close to this.

I'm about to buy a new one for the next 10 years.

ESR: the only "hacker" who instead of compiling code, always compiled and republished "The Hacker's Dictionary"?

And even Slashdot back then was ten times worse than the golden age 1988-1994 USENET already.

The first browsers, both Netscape and Mosaic had a grayish background.
By not specifying any colours you'd get #000 black text and an around #ccc gray background.

True, but genetic diversity in this case is what can save your bacon. Organisms have been doing it for ages.

Well, the Hiawatha project is notoriously bad at PR, nevertheless, it's open source, and there are multiple people scrutinising the code. But if you ignore those toy-like security kludges and the over-the-top claims of security, it turns out to be a rather solid platform.

Well, you *can* go better. Das Keyboard has issues when you type too fast. Unicomp keyboards are decidedly less expensive, sturdier, and support any typing speed without misregistering keys.

Can't say that I share your experience. I own six of them, they're built like a tank; bought all six about 10 years ago, they still work flawlessly. I had an issue with one once, called them up, they were very patient and helpful and didn't make a fuss about sending replacement keys, fully made in the USA.

I have one of those. But as it turns out, these keyboards can't handle speed-typing. They misread the keys every now and then if you type too fast, causing it to register keypresses in the wrong order due to their sequential scanline technique (same problem in Cherry keyboards).
After suffering for a while with the DAS, I decided to buy some Unicomp keyboards. Those are brilliant. Built like a tank, completely manufactured in the USA, excellent support, *lower* price than DAS (like half), and no keypresses out of order (no matter how fast you type).

Actually, discussions on Slashdot have never been well informed; they were bad back then, and they are worse now. "Well informed" died in september 1995, it existed on USENET prior to that.

I have to agree (sadly). I used strn as my last USENET reader, I believe. After 20 years, all the webforum (and/or social media forum) solutions I've seen, not a single one has even come close to the functionality and ease of use of strn.

NTP is your friend. man ntpd.

NTP is your friend. man ntpd.

I own a DAS Keyboard, and I own four Unicomps too. The DAS keyboard quality is not even close to that of the Unicomps. I.e. de the DAS keyboards costs 2.5 times as much, but the quality is considerably lower. The DAS keyboard sometimes transposes characters when I type real fast (due to scanline frequency limitations). The Unicomps *never* transpose characters (the Unicomp keyboards don't use scanlines, they have dedicated lines per key). The overal average typingspeed I get on the DAS is lower than on the Unicomp.

So, yes, their site is not as good as it could be. But give the guys from Unicomp a break, they know how to make the best keyboards in the world, creating websites just isn't their strong suite. Also, when you call there, 9 out of 10 times, you will be talking to the CEO and chief engineer. Their technical phone support is superb, they explain you on the phone how to perform maintenance.

RTFM: RFC 2018, SACK.

You can buy the USB version of the Customizer 104 Unicomp keyboard with buckling springs. It's the rightful heir to the model M and allows plugging into a mobile device (provided it has USB).