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Vince Burle's avatar

Chair exercise program for posture core and blood clot prevention. Set the desk up with safe with good alignment ergonomically. Always have plenty of water and loose fitted clothing. No tight shoes and no belts for sure ! Any more specifics please feel free to contact me through Bob! Thanks be safe all .... stillness causes illness

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Bob Sullivan's avatar

I'm glad you brought that up, Vince. Sitting too much is bad for everyone. I imagine school-aged children, thrust into this new life, are experiencing lots of new issues.

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Greybeard's avatar

Easy device-based mute is important, especially for wireless headsets. It's remarkable how few manufacturers seem to get this. I've been at home 18 years, spend most of the day on calls, and am on my fourth Plantronics Audio 995 headset (I've worn out two, and broke one by stepping on it). Alas, it's no longer made, so will have to embark on research when this one dies!

What I like is that the boom mic is muted by physically swiveling it up to the top of my head, so I can *physically* (or visually, if I'm, let's just say, standing in the bathroom where there's a mirror) check that it's muted. I'm sure other units are like this too.

The other issue can be that they're too "grabby" when it comes to connections. I have a Jabra wireless headset that my office provided, which can do Bluetooth, but if I enable that, it always wants to connect to my cellphone. I don't want that unless I'm using the headset: I want to hear the phone ring etc. Jabra says there's no way to disable this. In an office setting, that might make sense, but at home, not so much. So I have it connected to a landline but not via Bluetooth, making it almost useless.

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