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Moving your hand from keyboard to mouse 1000 times a day is really good recipe for RSI. Ask yourself this question after doing this 10y+ in a row.
by cvak 5y ago
Moving your hand from keyboard to mouse 1000 times a day is really good recipe for RSI. Ask yourself this question after doing this 10y+ in a row.
- Vhano 5y agoomg I realized this recently after using Android Studio for a short while. Keyboard+mouse workflow is objectively horrible for the wrists. Unfortunately no other alternatives exist for these IDEs.
- brabel 5y agoAndroid Studio is based on the Jetbrains IDE, IntelliJ, and you don't need the mouse to do anything with them. If you don't know how, I recommend you watch some guides on https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/category/tips-tricks/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/category/tips-tricks/ or find some presentations on Youtube (after I watched one many years ago, I've been feeling like I have superpowers and can do anything with a couple of shortcuts).
- Vhano 5y agooh cool thanks mate
- hota_mazi 5y agoActually, that's not true. What causes RSI is mostly centered around tendon and their sheath tension. For example, if you use a straight keyboard (don't! Ergonomic all the way!) that is raised toward you as opposed to away from you, keeping your hands on that keyboard for multiple hours in a row without ever reaching for the mouse is pretty much guaranteed to give you RSI. Reaching for the mouse will actually bring relief to your tendons. Another keyboard habit that will put a great deal of stress on your hands and wrists is leaving the Control key at the bottom left of the keyboard. Typing a control key with this configuration will bring great stress on your pinky and other tendons in your hand. Recommendation: map Control on Caps.
- rajin444 5y agoThis was 10 years ago, but I remember reading up and something with the forces enacted on your tendons moving the mouse around were exponentially worse than typing on a keyboard. I use a touchpad when possible knowing that, but I've never double checked myself. Anecdotally, I've only developed RSI in my mouse hand from gaming (same story for my friends who game as well). NHS seems to back this as well: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/tips-to-prevent-rsi/ https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/tips-to-prevent-rs...
- bernawil 5y agothere's two things that make my hands cringe: drag-clicking (e.g drag file to trashcan) and mouse-wheel click (close chrome tab). I built a trackball into my split keyboard and now I move it with my right hand and perform al clicks on my left hand side of the keyboard.
- yw3410 5y agoOne point to add to all of the great points here is consider getting a smaller keyboard (or an ergodox) especially if you're on the smaller side (for the same reason as the last point, stretching less tends to be nicer on the tendons).
- NateEag 5y ago> Actually, that's not true. It was for me. Most of my RSI was due to mouse usage. Moving to a thumb trackball did wonders.
- cvak 5y agoI'm not saying RSI in your wrists, that's mostly on straight keyboard (dacman all the way folks), but I personally had pretty bad RSI in my shoulder from the keyboard-mouse switching.