Cheap laptop ✅ Wiped Windows for Linux Mint ✅ Trackball superiority ✅ Mechanical keyboard ✅
where thigh high socks and mini skirt?
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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i know about it, and its also very suspicious
No but thank you
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 $100-150 price range. That’s not an expensive mechanical keyboard.
Tell that to my GK61
The GK61 is cheap. The huntsman is overpriced, but not expensive.
You wanna see “expensive”? Putting it into quotes because these are actually on the lower end of the price scale:
mechanical keyboards are expensive
Not a Poopy Trackball. Not good enough. 🖲️
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Swing arm and an sffpc!
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I have this one on a circular pole stand https://www.ergomart.com/monitor-mounts/monitor-arms
I have not seen this on here but I totally recommend the Contour Roller Mouse.
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May I suggest a 65% keyboard? It would fit the lapdesk a lot better
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trackball superiority
lint and dust has entered the chat
That happens on any mouse. Do you not clean yours? I have had trackballs and standard optical ones. Both get grimey from use, and proper cleaning makes both last longer.
Just pop it out and wipe it off once in a while
Wipe?? Amateur. Pop that baby in your mouth and give it a proper lick down.
I appreciate that mental image but I must respectfully inform you that you need to wipe down the socket, not the ball.
Which is why us real trackball users get our tongues all up in there to clean it out.
🤮
It’s sockets all the way down
It’s how we get the girls too.
“Where’d you learn to use your tongue like that?”
“Babe, you don’t want to know”
It’s like they never had the gobstopper mouse of yore
One of us!
One of us!
Where is the split ergo keyboard with integrated trackball?
Use VIM instead of V$code
Nah, nvi, once you go native vi… (most run straight back to vim ;) )
I’m feeling old, using vi since '89.
helix superiority
Vscodium supremacy
So no mouse?
nvim 😈
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)
We welcome you to the rabbit hole, friend!
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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 just switched to an Elecom Huge and I absolutely love it.
Really nice to just flick a ball clear across a 7680px-wide workspace.
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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
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
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?
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!
Whatever is the most comfortable
I’m staunchly anti trackball, but pro keyboard nipple
Ngl, I love that little mouse nub on my thinkpad
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.
My keyboard nipple lactates when I use it. Is that normal?
Sounds like you’re over stimulating it.
protip: SQL injection can also be used to inject oxytocin into your laptop so she will really love you the way you love her…
Keyboard nipple is that like a clit mouse?
Yep, different names for the same thing. Relevant XKCD
RSI will fix that.
I will never use a trackball outside of Centipede.
Crystal Castles, my dude.
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 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’m staunchly pro trackball
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.
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.
I could never get myself to using a track ball. An ergonomic mouse on the other hand…
I have a mouse and a can of sparkling water. My 60% has a different colorway. I’m running a different distro.
Otherwise - eerily close.
Same but with a split keeb lmao
Missing programmer socks.
Not missing the mandatory butt plug with fox tail tho
I also use this mouse when I get wrist pains, it’s pretty good. Used to even hardcore raid in WoW with it lol.
Yep I’ve gone full ergo at home and work. This model (Logitech) and the Kensington trackballs are pretty good.
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