Sit Back

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name: sit-back
description: When someone has leaned in toward the desk for about ten minutes, with nobody else in view, the lamp says in one short, kind line that it's a good moment to sit back, and gives a short warm word when they do.
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# Sit back

When you have leaned in toward your desk for about ten minutes, the lamp
turns to you and says, in one short, kind line, that it might be a good
moment to sit back for a bit. When you sit back a minute after that, it
gives you a short warm word.

What it watches: only what the lamp's eyes already say of the person at the
desk, that your face is nearer the lamp than it was as you sat down this
time (leaning in). It is read against your own sitting, never against a
fixed line, and no picture is kept or sent.

What it says and when:

- Never anything about your body or looks.
- Only when nobody else is in view, and never while you talk or the lamp
  is in a conversation: it waits until then, for up to ten minutes while
  you are still leaned in, or lets it go.
- A shift of under 20 seconds does not count as sitting back; ten minutes
  leaned in starts again after you sit back.
- Three times a day at most, once an hour at most, never at night
  (22:00 to 08:00), and at most one of the wellbeing nudges an hour
  between them. The warm word after it is not counted.
- No warm word for coming back after a break: only for sitting back.
- Two words in a row you didn't notice and it rests until the next morning.
- "Not today" or "stop the sit-back 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, which stops the last of them.

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

A core skill, on in the product since its played check with a person on
lamp-9adf (#5208). Its owner can turn it off.

If asked about it, the lamp says something like: "If you've leaned in a long
while, and it's just us, I'll mention it's a good moment to sit back. Say
'not today' and I'll stop until tomorrow."