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I partially went down the alternative layout path before I realized simply lifting my palms off the palm rest was enough to relieve my RSI issues.

• coldtea 3y ago
  KISS and Pareto would be proud of you!
• justsomehnguy 3y ago
  This sounds like 'hah, I have that one trick', but as someone who benefited a lot from being conscious about the ones posture... please, take a look at yourself before.
• magicalhippo 3y ago
  When I learned to use computers I naturally gravitated towards holding my arms at about 45 degrees, with fingers on left-shift, A, W, D and K, O, ;, '. After some time we had some touch typing in classes at school and it was so painful trying to have my hands square on. So I just ignored that whole thing and continued my style. Never had any issues.
  • pyridines 3y ago
    I typed for years in a similar way, and only developed RSI after forcing myself to type "properly"
    • seec 3y ago
      I find that most of the time people pretend there is a proper way to do things its actually them talking about their lack of skill or insecurity. They seem to have it right because they have been doing the thing for much longer than you, so it is almost always an unfair comparison. If you look at it through the prism of ability development over time, it completely changes the dynamics and I believe those people are very often wrong because they only speak from their experience that is driven by their mediocrity or lack of skill. In particular I learned to cook both professionally and for my own benefit and I discovered around professional kitchen that cooks are taught many stupid things that are mostly about covering somebody's ass for security or enforcing an inefficient way of working to keep people busy. You would be amazed how little relevance the pro cook learning has to the actual completion of the task efficiently; in fact they would often gain so much efficiency if they learned to let go of their learned behaviors. Another pet peeve of mine is the requirement of "warming up" before sports like running or the like. In my youth, every single sports teacher of mine pissed me off by requiring this nonsense even though I really felt it was at best a waste of time and even counterproductive. And now we actually have studies that prove this as a fact, which would have been clear to someone who is not completely incompetent. Also, I have the performance numbers to back this up nowadays, so I am not taking any more of this nonsense. In general, I feel it is sometimes hard to explain nicely to people that their limitations do not necessarily apply to everyone; it gets pretty hard to patiently listen to peoples that are clearly mediocre trying to teach you how to do stuff even though they are not very successful at the task they are teaching.