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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    “Hmmm, I’m going to write you a prescription for 75% more RGB LED backlighting”

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m using a “laying chair” which is superior for posture

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    • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      🖥️🦐

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    • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I actually do this sometimes, feels good

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    • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Still better than AI slop.

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This had me actually giggle out loud.

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Until you actually need to stand and realize you’ve stressed your neck muscles and lower back

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Who let you in my house?

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Actually my back hurts because your mother damaged it with her large mass when we were engaged in coitus.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Daaaaaaad stop

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      • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s what she said

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I have all those things, but my back hurts because I fucked it up on my 20’s moving file cabinets at a minimum wage job.

    I do consider it the reason i don’t have carpal tunnel after 30 years of IT/Code/Sysadmin though.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The last time I hired a few people to help me move, I gave each one an extra $30 just to get themselves a goddamn back brace, that shit makes me worried when I see young people yanking heavy shit around like it’s not doing anything to their bodies.

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  • eru@mouse.chitanda.moe ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    real solution for most people would be to start exercising

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Exactly right. Just a bit of exercise every week is enough to get stronger muscles and no pain in back or anywhere else. At least that worked for me, and its easy to do.

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      • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Stretching too, it doesn’t have to be complicated like yoga, just find a doorjamb and put your arm against it or push against a wall or something, try to touch your toes, raise your arms, breath deep and hold your positions, don’t wiggle or lunge, just stop where you feel a pull and hold it, try to cover all your major support areas.

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • Thatuserguy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mouse Quest player core

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah it’s because I don’t have enough monitors.

    Need a 4th one to balance things out nicely

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    • blx@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But then you won’t have a middle one to look straight ahead. Go for 5 instead

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      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Nah, need to go straight to 9, 3x3 matrix. It’s acceptable to pause at 6 if you are budget conscious.

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      • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        3 wide, middle stacked

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      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Time to up the resolution

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TL;DR your back hurts because you’re poor.

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah, OP is just being elitist trying to justify those purchases.

      The real answer is posture and lack of streching and exercize. Unless you have an underlying issue like scoliosis, stretching and exercize fix 90% of the aches and pains young people whine about with “getting old” in their 30’s.

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      • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Pretty sure OP is sarcastic

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  • remedia@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m a personal trainer, I’ve destroyed two lumbar discs, gotten disc replacement surgery and currently working with a physiotherapist to get back on track. Back pain can have many causes. Anything from disc degeneration to muscle imbalances. If you’re not in pain that prevents you from doing them, there are a few exercises my physiotherapist has me doing.

    • Glute bridge to activate your glutes. Underactive glutes can cause you to compensate with your lower back muscles, causing overuse.
    • Prone cobra for strengthening your back muscles.
    • Plank and side plank for strengthening your abdominals, obliques and deeper core muscles
    • Lying hamstring stretch. Tight hamstrings, common in people who are sedentary or sit a lot for work, can cause referred lower back pain.
    • Kneeling hip flexor stretch. Hip flexors are also commonly tight in people who are sedentary or sit a lot. Can cause a muscle imbalance with the posterior chain, altering the length-tension relationship in the muscles.

    But if you have more severe lower back pain, go see a doctor and get an MRI if necessary to find out if there’s something going on with your discs. Don’t just try to work through pain and ignore the problem. That’s what I did, and it just made things worse. You may not necessarily need surgery, but it’s good to find the root cause so you know what options you have.

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    • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I popped my two discs around L5. So far I’m trying to avoid surgery, pain is mostly under control at the moment but I’ve had extreme ups and downs for the last few months so…

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know exactly what these are based on your descriptions, but I went through physical therapy and was given some stretches/exercises that do for sure help some. It isn’t a “cure”, but as you said, if you have back pain and can do them, you should be trying to.

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  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I could have sworn it was due to the severe injury I sustained, but who am I to argue with science?

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    • SatyrSack@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hundreds of upvotes on a shitpost can’t be wrong!

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    • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Degenerative disc disorder bad mouse

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I use none of those and my lower back is fine. Lifting weights fixed all that shit almost immediately.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I use a really small table and literally sit on the ground, and I got no back pain

    context: it was supposed to be temporary when my table got damaged, but I ended liking it

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  • doug@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hate that planking is the best exercise for strengthening your lower back. They’re just so boring to do.

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    • Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can spice them up with alternating leg raises or do a superman or bird dog. There are also loads of other exercises that work. The best exercise isn’t the most effective one, it’s the one you actually do consistently

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      • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The best exercise is the one you actually do

        That’s how I finally got to exercise regularly. First, I spend way too long trying to hype myself up for running. Never happened. I hate running. No amount of convenience can convince me. Then I started hiking and yoga and swimming and whatever came my way. Sure, I don’t have any sort of routine, but I do some sport very regularly!

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I did planking for about a thousand years (or so it felt) and it didn’t really help at all. What did help massively was dumbbell swings! In just a couple of days my back pain was like 90% gone, totally gone today.

      I’m quite tall, so YMMV.

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      • MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Tall back pain person here. Gonna try this

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    • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Deadlifts would like a word!

      Also they are more fun, you feel like a super hero that can lift a house, and it’s a compound lift!

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    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pushups are also great, also helps with breasts that get easily fucked with your shoulders laying forwards while on computer long days. That shit got me so bad I had to take sick leave for a week due to shoulder pain

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    • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Agreed. Planks and cardio are my downfall because they are mind numbingly boring

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      • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s the best part about cardio. You can do so many other things while doing it. … OK well, not lots of different things, but once you’re past the hell of getting into a shape, you kindof just zone out into the music/podcast/video/what ever and huffpuff away for a while while entertained.

        If you go to a gym, some even have theatre rooms filled with treadmills/etc and a movie playing.

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  • West_of_West@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    While dumb expensive the Aeron chair makes sitting at a desk all day do able and not painful.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Agree. You can also find them second hand at pretty decent prices

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    • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Used steel case leap. Doesn’t look pretty or have RGB, or a built in mini fridge or whatever, but it works and it costs like 100-200usd.

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      • grandma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        You’re talking about v1 I assume? V2’s go for quite a bit more

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    • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’ve come down in price and there are actually better options out there now.

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      • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What are those better options…?

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  • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I never get back pain, because I get it all in my shoulders and neck instead.

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Could also be kidney stones

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    • SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or lupus.

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      • Janx@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s never lupus.

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  • sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I tried a standing desk and it made my back pain a lot worse.

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    • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      With a standing desk, you have to be very careful in not being stationary. Standing in the same position for an hour is not great for your back at all, but the goal of a standing desk is to constantly move a little bit and relax your back muscles. Ideally, you want some sort of standing desk pad that forces you to subconsciously constantly move.

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      • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, extremely cheesy way of putting it: The best work position is the next one.

        I.e. don’t stay in one position for a long time, but rather switch it up regularly.

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh good, I thought it was from the repeated hard pounding in the ass.

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    • TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s both.

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  • lengau@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I use all three of those and my back hurts more.

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Stretch. If you don’t know how, look up yoga routines, and make sure not to force yourself into any positions you cannot easily reach. Until you’re more experienced with pushing against your body’s limits, it’s pretty easy to hurt yourself forcing things.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then you stop using them and the back hurts even more.

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  • orionsbelt@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    split keyboard recs?

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    • Hexarei@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I use a DIY keyboard called the Dactyl Manuform and I love it to bits

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    • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have a Lily58 that I love. I put mine together myself so it’s a big different looking than this one, but it’s the same layout.

      keebd.com/en-us/products/lily58-pro-keyboard-kit

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      • orionsbelt@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        oooh, 2 cool!

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can anyone reccomend a split keyboard? I bought one last week, but it’s tiny and lacks FN keys and holding down alt practically curls my thumb into my pinkie.

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  • salty_chief@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did all that, turns out it is just Cervical Spondylosis.

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The best posture is the next posture!

    Had some pro ergonomic wizards visit my place of work a million years ago and they kept saying this and it has stuck in my mind like an echo from the ancient world.

    I try to switch posture regularly when I’m working. It helps.

    Making sure to go on walks regularly also helps with lower back pain in my experience! Can’t speak for people who have actual conditions and such, but us regular folk, whose backs are fine, just weak due to sitting down too much, there are ways to combat it without paying an arm and a leg for fancy equipment.

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  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t have as much desk time as I used to. My back hurts because I’m old and I have done a bunch of different jobs that hurt my back in a bunch of different ways.

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How does split keyboard help?

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  • BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like my split keyboard and ergonomic mouse tho kitty-birthday-sad

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  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    (Me crossing out “aggressive twerking”) Dang, wrong again.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My lower back is the opposite where standing straight for a while actually causes pain.

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