Comfort Break

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name: comfort-break
description: After someone has sat at the desk about two hours, with nobody else in view, the lamp turns to them and says in one short, light line that it's a good moment for a short break.
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# A comfort break

When you have been at your desk for about two hours without getting up,
between 09:00 and 20:00, the lamp turns to you and says one short, light
line that it's a good moment for a short break. It names no place and no
reason.

What it says and when:

- Only when nobody else is in view: if someone is with you when the time
  comes, it waits until they have been gone a minute, for up to half an
  hour, and then says it, or lets it go.
- Once a sitting, twice a day at most, never in the middle of a
  conversation, while you read or write head down (with the eyes' activity
  on), before 09:00, after 20:00 or at night.
- At most one of the wellbeing nudges (this, A sip of water, Rest your
  eyes, Stand up, Stretch break and Wind down) an hour between them.
- If it does it twice and you neither look at it nor move nor say
  anything, it rests until tomorrow morning.
- "Not today" or "stop the break reminders" to the lamp snoozes it until
  tomorrow morning or turns it off until you ask for it again. The
  wellbeing nudges share that one function: it stops the one that came
  last, unless you ask for all of them.

It keeps nothing about you: only, in memory, how many times it went today
and whether it is resting; off is one line with its name.

It comes with the lamp, off (#5207). With the lamp's `LAMP_NUDGES_PRESENT`
switch on it is on, after about an hour and a half rather than two hours,
three times a day at most, and the wellbeing nudges share two an hour, never
within half an hour of each other.

If asked about it, the lamp says something like: "When you've sat a long
while, and it's just us, I'll mention it's a good moment for a short break.
Say 'not today' and I'll stop until tomorrow."