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Right pinky brigade checking in. Mechanical solved this for me instantly.
by tertius 9y ago
Right pinky brigade checking in.
Mechanical solved this for me instantly.
- _jal 9y agoDitto. If you experience this, get a mechanical board immediately.
- k__ 9y agoFor me it was the other way around. Avoiding mechanical keyboards all my life and never got one of these typical programmer health issues.
- _jal 9y agoJust like this tiger-repellent rock that has kept me safe from tigers my entire life.
- k__ 9y agoHehe, yes, maybe my genes are superior ;P But seriously, I never understood the craze for these clunky things. Almost all devs I know use them and most of them have issues with their arms/hands.
- _jal 9y agoI use them. Cause and effect have a direction: I switched to mech boards because I was having wrist trouble. It made all the difference for me - they're fine now. Other reasons people like them usually are about customizability. If you think of it as being roughly similar to how some people can be about noodling with cars, you won't be too far off-base. - With the right firmware, they are fully customizable - you can remap things how you like, create macros, whatever, and config is stored on the board. - You can customize the switches - there are a bewildering array of switch options. People also spend lots of time customizing switches in various ways to change how they feel. - Layouts - keyboard nerds have produced a huge array of different layouts. - Looks - you can buy your own keycaps. Those, too, come in a wide array of profiles and appearances. Some people make really nice boards out of metal, wood, sometimes odder things (I heard about someone trying to make cases out of Corian at one point). If you like that sort of thing, you can have them covered in blinky LEDs. There's a whole tiny art scene making keycap-sculptures that go for a ton of money, relatively speaking. And that's before you get to the crazy stuff that leads to people paying $1k+ on a keyboard. Really, it is like anything else - people do a lot of things as hobbies that look odd from outside.
- tertius 9y agoAre those special rocks or can I just pick some up from my garden? I guess any garden that doesn't have tigers in it should work right?
- mediocrejoker 9y agoThis is a reference to The Simpsons, for anyone who didn't get it.
- breakingcups 9y agoIt's a much older joke than that though.