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I'm a bit confused as to what Proteus Jones's usual typing position is, because my normal typing position has my fingers on the home row and my thumb in the middle of the space bar, so regardless of how I want to hit it it's a pretty serious movement or contortion to reach the alt key. Compare with the ctrl key which is just a slight rotation of the hand to get the pinky down there.
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Jabor posted:I'm a bit confused as to what Proteus Jones's usual typing position is, because my normal typing position has my fingers on the home row and my thumb in the middle of the space bar, so regardless of how I want to hit it it's a pretty serious movement or contortion to reach the alt key. Compare with the ctrl key which is just a slight rotation of the hand to get the pinky down there. Curl left hand slightly, middle and index fingers land on alt and spacebar. 
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How can you even comfortably crouch jump without using Control and Space? -e- Oh, Alt... Remember keeping a button pressed in a game just to have Windows interrupt to tell you about sticky keys? Lurking Haro has a new favorite as of 13:31 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Apr 13, 2018 13:28
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This tangent makes me remember that I use right Control/Alt/Shift/Windows keys so rarely they might as well not exist.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:29
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Buttcoin purse posted:It's this, AFAIK. Alt is a bit of a stretch to hit, I think, although it's not too bad, not like Ctrl. I guess it's not far from the Windows key, which is the Windows way of starting a program, though, so not that big of a deal. Jabor posted:I'm a bit confused as to what Proteus Jones's usual typing position is, because my normal typing position has my fingers on the home row and my thumb in the middle of the space bar, so regardless of how I want to hit it it's a pretty serious movement or contortion to reach the alt key. Compare with the ctrl key which is just a slight rotation of the hand to get the pinky down there. Huh. On my Mac, I hit the ⌘ (ALT is in the same location on Windows keyboards) with my thumb and cross my index over the thumb to hit space. My hands don't move from the typing position and it's no harder than snapping your fingers in terms of the dexterity required. I actually had to do it just now to figure it out since it's mostly an automatic thing for me now. Like this:  For CTRL I have to actually lift my hands, but I rarely use that unless I'm either using RDP to some Win boxes or using a Windows VM. It is much more of a pain, and I always forget and use the wrong combo. Honestly, for Win keyboards I feel CTRL and ALT need to be swapped considering how often CTRL combos are used while typing. Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 15:39 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Apr 13, 2018 15:31
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My fingers are cramping up just looking at that. Though I guess anything's usable if that's what you learned to start with. Even those stupid puck mice.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:42
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Both thumbs on space bar normally. Curl one slightly to reach the Cmd key, other stays on space. Use pinky for control.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:50
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All of you motherfuckers need
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Apr 13, 2018 15:52
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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: For Millennials
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Apr 13, 2018 15:55
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Guy Axlerod posted:Both thumbs on space bar normally. Curl one slightly to reach the Cmd key, other stays on space. Use pinky for control. To be fair, using the equivalent Windows shortcuts are a pain in the dick since Win uses CTRL as the modifier key.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:55
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Proteus Jones posted:Huh. On my Mac, I hit the ⌘ (ALT is in the same location on Windows keyboards) with my thumb and cross my index over the thumb to hit space. My hands don't move from the typing position and it's no harder than snapping your fingers in terms of the dexterity required. I actually had to do it just now to figure it out since it's mostly an automatic thing for me now.
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Apr 13, 2018 16:04
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I spotted this today at work:
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Iron Crowned posted:I spotted this today at work: Every garage/workshop has an old rear end radio that is at least ten or fifteen years old.
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Apr 13, 2018 18:26
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Randaconda posted:Every garage/workshop has an old rear end radio that is at least ten or fifteen years old. This one has an 8-track
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Apr 13, 2018 18:28
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Typing chat: Both I and my ex learned to type on early-80s word processors/late typewriters, which led to me having a very efficient hunt-'n'-peck style, I get about 40wpm hammering away with four fingers and looking at the keyboard. But my ex, goddamn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQI4Jtc0vak That's just short of 130wpm, 99.5% accurate (his personal record is 128). He's somewhat slower on modern squishy/short-travel keyboards, of course, but it's hard to find Ms these days and then you have the get a USB adapter ... so once the last M and desktop died (The keyboard from an overdose of Coke, the computer because it let the smoke out of the PSU after a thunderstorm-induced power outage*) and we switched to modern lappys, we gave up on good keyboards. *I love my current laptop, it's a fairly recent gaming rig, only ever used plugged in -- I travel a lot for work, but it's always on a desk and plugged into the wall, so it's basically a desktop with a built-in UPS.
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Apr 13, 2018 21:58
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Cherry Greens are pretty similar in equivalency to the buckling spring of a Model M, at least as far as modern switches go. I have a CM Quickfire Rapid with greens and it is heaven to type on.
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Apr 13, 2018 22:06
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Typing chat: Both I and my ex learned to type on early-80s word processors/late typewriters, which led to me having a very efficient hunt-'n'-peck style, I get about 40wpm hammering away with four fingers and looking at the keyboard. But my ex, goddamn: Unicomp still makes them, new stock: http://www.pckeyboard.com They bought out the original manufacturing hardware from IBM and were founded by people who worked for them, so it’s more or less the same exact product but new. Got a Mac model about a year ago and I’ve loved it ever since.
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Dewgy posted:Unicomp still makes them, new stock: http://www.pckeyboard.com You beat me to it. I've had my Unicomp for a couple of years now and it's the best (and loudest) keyboard I've ever used. The Model M never died, it just changed its name.
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Apr 13, 2018 22:48
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Proteus Jones posted:What does this mean? It depends. If I have both hands on my keyboard, Alt+Space is fine. I use Alt+Space, N for minimizing apps via the keyboard, for example. But if you have the right hand on the mouse, it's not so good. Anyway, I'm just nerd-spergin'
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Apr 14, 2018 01:15
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I use Command+Space all the time on my Mac, it has never felt awkward to me. No more awkward than hitting any other key combo, one nipple on the first and both thumbs on the other key. I also learned Alt+Space in Windows decades ago as a way to relocate lost windows. Alt+Space, M, hit an arrow key (otherwise the mouse won’t lock) and then move the mouse. There’s your Photoshop palette or whatever. That problem was so common among my friends that I wrote a tiny Delphi program that grabbed any out of bounds windows. Interestingly that often revealed all sorts of adware IE windows and poo poo which was a scary bonus at the time. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 02:10 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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Apr 14, 2018 02:06
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I'm such a goddamn nerd that my left hand naturally settles to CTRL A W D Space. gently caress the home row  (hold-to-crouch for life)
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Apr 14, 2018 02:43
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i'm such a goddamn nerd that i had a special esc key 3d printed
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Apr 14, 2018 02:46
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Arrath posted:I'm such a goddamn nerd that my left hand naturally settles to CTRL A W D Space. Uhh that’s pretty much the home row friend
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Apr 14, 2018 02:54
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boar guy posted:i'm such a goddamn nerd that i had a special esc key 3d printed I approve.
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Apr 14, 2018 03:14
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Jabor posted:My fingers are cramping up just looking at that. The puck mouse was an abomination. It was the worse design ever. As soon as it came out, when I was in college, I had to carry around an after-market mouse. The only nice thing was that, with two USB inputs on the keyboard, you could use the puck mouse as a left handed mouse and a Kensington as the right one. That may seem weird, but I used to work with a left handed guy so we could switch back and forth really fast without fussing with cables. For some reason, he liked the puck. I blame his Vietnam experience. Or possibly that he was a Criminal Justice professor. They're fussy.
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Apr 14, 2018 03:29
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i use EADF for games, ive never found WASD to be comfortable i use the apple wired mini keyboard tho so idk maybe that has something to do with it. in the 90s i had a model m on my 486 and i thought it sounded cool when you typed fast, so i practiced typing quickly so it sounded cool
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Apr 14, 2018 03:33
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mostlygray posted:The puck mouse was an abomination. It was the worse design ever. As soon as it came out, when I was in college, I had to carry around an after-market mouse. The only nice thing was that, with two USB inputs on the keyboard, you could use the puck mouse as a left handed mouse and a Kensington as the right one. I knew a guy who liked the puck mouse. He'd basically make a loose fist with his right hand and put that down on top of the mouse, and he'd click by pressing down his pinky.
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Apr 14, 2018 03:41
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Last Chance posted:Uhh that’s pretty much the home row friend Just one too far to the left.
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Apr 14, 2018 03:49
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Grand Prize Winner posted:I knew a guy who liked the puck mouse. He'd basically make a loose fist with his right hand and put that down on top of the mouse, and he'd click by pressing down his pinky. fake edit: 
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I had a boss who loved that style of mouse, said all his RSI issues went away once he switched to it.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:I had a boss who loved that style of mouse, said all his RSI issues went away once he switched to it. I've had two colleagues back to back sitting next to me who needed a vertical mouse due to rotator cuff injuries. They would have transferred the same one across, probably, except one of them was right handed and the other left handed. 
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Jedit posted:I've had two colleagues back to back sitting next to me who needed a vertical mouse due to rotator cuff injuries. They would have transferred the same one across, probably, except one of them was right handed and the other left handed. I'm left-handed but I use computer mice with my right hand, is that not normal for lefties?
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Apr 14, 2018 19:13
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T-man posted:I'm left-handed but I use computer mice with my right hand, is that not normal for lefties? I've always seen the majority of lefties use their left as the mouse hand. If I were a lefty, I would probably just leave it on the right (I can mouse fine with my left hand as a righty, so I figure the inverse would be true). On the topic of puck mice, I never really cared about them one way or the other. I could use them fine with a delicate thumb and pinky grip I never had to think about. One thing that was great with them was how well you could feel the ball movement when they were just a little dirty.
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Apr 14, 2018 19:55
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T-man posted:I'm left-handed but I use computer mice with my right hand, is that not normal for lefties? I'm the opposite. Drives the IT guys crazy.
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Apr 14, 2018 20:56
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T-man posted:I'm left-handed but I use computer mice with my right hand, is that not normal for lefties? Generally not, although I do as you do.
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Apr 14, 2018 21:49
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T-man posted:I'm left-handed but I use computer mice with my right hand, is that not normal for lefties? Normal for me. Good for writing notes while mousing around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_XUaehKRU
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T-man posted:I'm left-handed but I use computer mice with my right hand, is that not normal for lefties? Normal for me too. I CAN'T mouse worth a drat left handed.
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Apr 15, 2018 03:32
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I honestly thought these were out of production, but a look on Amazon shows they're still around, but I'm not sure if it's just old stock and/or generic versions of the principle: Wi-Fi SD Cards. They were a pretty popular thing about maybe 8-10 years ago, I think, mostly for portable devices and what not that still used SD cards, but since so much stuff has moved onto microSD or smartphones having built-in networking/BT/cloud/etc. support I don't think I've seen them around in stores in the last few years.
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Apr 15, 2018 04:39
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eyefi took their ball and went home by disabling all but the latest gen of their cards. Since they had a near monopoly at the time, the market kinda died for them.
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T-man posted:I'm left-handed but I use computer mice with my right hand, is that not normal for lefties? Yeah I'm a leftie and use my mouse right handed.
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