Cheap laptop ✅ Wiped Windows for Linux Mint ✅ Trackball superiority ✅ Mechanical keyboard ✅
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I’m staunchly anti trackball, but pro keyboard nipple
Not for actual use, but for bonding with your laptop.
I hate cleaning up the liquid that comes out the ports when you play with it too much.
You have to use soap because it gets all gloopy with just water.
protip: SQL injection can also be used to inject oxytocin into your laptop so she will really love you the way you love her…
My keyboard nipple lactates when I use it. Is that normal?
Sounds like you’re over stimulating it.
Ngl, I love that little mouse nub on my thinkpad
Keyboard nipple is that like a clit mouse?
Yep, different names for the same thing. Relevant XKCD
RSI will fix that.
carpal tunnel and RSIs suck. Trackball use strong arm muscles not weak wrist muscles in strained position.
Plus less pronation.
Seconding as better for RSI. Plus they work anywhere, you don’t need specific surfaces for them
pronation
noun
rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face downward
Gotta get one that slopes. Or 3D print a slope for yours.
Meh, the only time I’m actually using my mouse for prolonged periods of time is when I’m gaming. And whenever I feel strained I’ll just switch to a controller, I’m absolutely terrible with controllers but they still feel less weird to my brain than trackballs.
You’ll be old one day!
For whatever reason I usually get pain in my fingers not wrist. And usually only when gaming for a long time. Pretty sure I move my whole arm when using a mouse. Maybe that’s why?
Once you roll a ball around it changes you.
I’m staunchly pro trackball
I use both mouse and trackball (or keyboard nipple if available).
Trackball is nice for when I’m sitting on the couch and need to control the mouse on my HTPC. Generally anywhere you’re space-constrained or dealing with an uneven surface a trackball is super useful.
I use a trackball because they take up less space but there is a learning curve and you really have to spend time dialing in a sensitivity you’re comfortable with.
I don’t know about the other dude, but I do CADD work all day for weeks on end sometimes. There’s no avoiding using the mouse. Trackball is MUCH safer for my wrist. My other option is to hover hand the desk all day to prevent RSI or twisting up my wrist, but that kills my shoulder after a few hours.
Ergo mouse. Best of both worlds.
No it’s not. It does not solve the problem of hover handing the desk and putting strain on my shoulder. Also, I have three large monitors to traverse, but I need precision. I can sail across 3 monitors with a flick of my thumb. I rarely have the desk space or reach to do that with any kind of tabletop mouse because I also need my keyboard in range to type commands and input. I know about adjusting the mouse speed, but that just doesn’t offer enough control or precision. Moreover, occasionally I need to use my computer without access to any kind of desk and the track pad just doesn’t cut it, especially when you need to clock and drag.
Highly recommended. I use both vertical mx ergo and the mx ergo and would recommend both. It’s very nice not having to move your arm all the time especially across multiple screens
Care to be more specific? For gaming mouse is better perhaps, but for everything else I see no reason to wave your arm around like a baboon. Spend a few months with a good trackball and you will feel like an absolute ape using a mouse.
Wave your arm around like a baboon? I move my whole mouse like, an inch square at that. I do CAD work daily, and also game. High sensitivity mouse master race…
Then again, I also don’t have my mouse on the right hand side of my computer with the buttons facing toward the back of the desk. I sit with my right arm across and my mouse ‘horizontal’ so to speak. Left arm extended fully, right arm at a 90 degree pulled in and under the keyboard.
I’m 40 and have been gaming, computing for more hours than people are typically awake during the day, since I was like 6. I have no RSI, no mouse-related strain at all…
Exaggerating of course, but mouse / wrist movements are more coarse than the subtle thumb movements of a trackball and it’s a noticeable transition.
I could never get myself to using a track ball. An ergonomic mouse on the other hand…
I just switched to an Elecom Huge and I absolutely love it.
Really nice to just flick a ball clear across a 7680px-wide workspace.
I will never use a trackball outside of Centipede.
Crystal Castles, my dude.
In my experience you either love trackballs or hate them, I love them (but I only like thumb balls, never really got into other types)
Whatever is the most comfortable
Trackballs are great! I wouldn’t necessarily recommend anybody switch if they’re happy with what they have, but they work pretty much as well as a mouse for most tasks, can be better for RSI, and don’t need as much desk space because the device is just stationary. I have both a mouse and a trackball on my desk to switch things up, but the trackball gets the most use. My main gripe with the trackball is just that you have to clean the gunk out every so often, but otherwise it’s awesome.
Agree about the gunk issues, I do wish they were self cleaning, but not with the happy with what you have bit. Few people are actively exposed to trackballs. Give one a try and you might realize what you have is simply inferior for most tasks.
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i dont know who’s being more suspicious, op by buying a cheap laptop and an expensive keyboard or you by asking that
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No but thank you
i know about it, and its also very suspicious
That does not look like an expensive keyboard.
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If it’s a razer huntsman tkl, they frequently go on sale. They are in the $100-150 price range. That’s not an expensive mechanical keyboard.
Tell that to my GK61
The GK61 is cheap. The huntsman is overpriced, but not expensive.
You wanna see “expensive”? Putting it into quotes because these are actually on the lower end of the price scale:
mechanical keyboards are expensive
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And soon it’ll be: ✅ Made a new account on programming.dev or infosec.pub
Missing programmer socks.
Not missing the mandatory butt plug with fox tail tho
Nothing beats popping out the ball and bouncing it on a smooth concrete floor
Pro tip: don’t do this.
Pro tip: fuck you, they’re my balls and I can use then however and whenever i want.
Geez, let a person play with their balls, people.
Next step is distro hopping until you land on Arch, Gentoo, FreeBSD or their derivatives. Then you get a split keyboard with a track ball built in. The rabbit hole goes so much deeper. I didn’t even mention thigh high socks if you choose arch.
What, no Debian on that list? Are you telling me that even after all these years I still haven’t landed???
I recently switched to Debian KDE earlier this year, and have found my forever distro. It’s been rock solid, with some of the best battery life I’ve ever gotten from my clunker 2017 laptop. No weird install instructions, no problems getting Bluetooth/wifi going, and easily accepted my OVPN profile and never fails when I try to use it. Fantastic OS. 😁
Some say this is the year of Linux, perhaps its time has come now.
trackball superiority
lint and dust has entered the chat
Just pop it out and wipe it off once in a while
It’s like they never had the gobstopper mouse of yore
Wipe?? Amateur. Pop that baby in your mouth and give it a proper lick down.
I appreciate that mental image but I must respectfully inform you that you need to wipe down the socket, not the ball.
Which is why us real trackball users get our tongues all up in there to clean it out.
It’s how we get the girls too.
“Where’d you learn to use your tongue like that?”
“Babe, you don’t want to know”
🤮
It’s sockets all the way down
That happens on any mouse. Do you not clean yours? I have had trackballs and standard optical ones. Both get grimey from use, and proper cleaning makes both last longer.
Use VIM instead of V$code
Vscodium supremacy
Nah, nvi, once you go native vi… (most run straight back to vim ;) )
I’m feeling old, using vi since '89.
nvim 😈
helix superiority
You need socks and more Star Trek
True fact, in the early days of Linux I installed it and was like awesome! I am staring at a terminal prompt with color ls output and thinking man this is so cool! That irrational love of computers lead to a career but also a lot of inability to socialize.
Where is the split ergo keyboard with integrated trackball?
I bring my trackball to work everyday, seriously.
Did the same until I got an employer without flex spots, it’s now permanently at my desk there.
I could leave it at work I just don’t want to buy another $100+ mouse, I use it at home
The one at work was a ‘2nd chance’ Kensington Orbit which was missing it’s top support, making it a tad unstable. I asked if that was by design, company gave a full refund and let me keep it. It’s safe at work, coleagues have no clue how to use it and it wobbles when in use. (When you don’t put a few post-it’s where the top support should have been)
I have 2 orbits with scroll ring at home, and a few marble mouses as spare. (But that scroll ring is adictive)
One of us!
One of us!
For trackball fans, this Russian (speaking) DIYer plans to build a custom trackball, it kind of mesmerizing to watch his design process https://youtu.be/qkTo5siugms
I’ve started using an open source trackball mouse. It’s infinitely repairable, and easily reprogrammable.
The Ploopy thumb is at least as good as the Logitech M570, probably better.
If only it wouldn’t cost… 200€. I could buy 6 Ergo MXs for that same price. Of course, you avoid e-waste and all, but come on now, that’s a lifestyle product if I have ever seen one.
If I wasn’t in love with my Logitech MX-ergo I would absolutely get one of those, but with the 3D printed part I printed to give it a much steeper angle, I’m not sure if I can use anything else on a regular bases anymore
How the heck do you even use that trackball mouse?
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Thanks for channel
Wow Lemmy really does recommend the ideal path to all of its users doesnt it 😮💨 ok. ok.
