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Lots of good advice here. Ergo keyboards (I like the kinesis advantage, and they last decades) and breaks worked for me. Dvorak is mostly useful because you hav
by brians 7y ago
Lots of good advice here. Ergo keyboards (I like the kinesis advantage, and they last decades) and breaks worked for me. Dvorak is mostly useful because you have to relearn it, and might learn it without whatever broken ideas your body has about QWERTY.
Chair adjustments are huge. Get a steelcase chair—I like the leap. Have it adjusted by a pro, whose biggest advantages are being able to see what you really do as you type and knowing all the dials in advance.
And get stronger. A stronger back, shoulders, arms, grip will help you stay working in safe positions longer. Anything from tennis to deadlifts will work here.
- nufohede 7y agoJust adding another data point, my Kinesis Advantage only lasted 6 months before it started experiencing phantom key strokes. Sending it in to get repaired would have costed almost as much as getting a new keyboard since I don’t live in the US. I replaced it with a Microsoft Sculpt that has lasted for years now.
- sleepybrett 7y agoThere is a open source controller for the advantage that makes it fully programable and fixes some problems that the advantage 1 had with some ghost presses and stuck modifiers. I've modified two advantages to use it, it requires a bit of soldering and some willingness to compile your own firmware from qmk. https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2013-03-21-kinesis_custom_controller/ https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2013-03-21-kinesis_custo... https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/BwWRYP5c https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/BwWRYP5c https://qmk.fm/ https://qmk.fm/ I've presonally never managed to get caps/mode leds back to working, but I also don't really care enough to dig in that deeply.