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Sagebrush posted:i sometimes think about getting a trackball to try it out but i realized that the way i use my mouse doesn't even involve my wrist usually. i just hold it with my fingertips and slide it around in a 1" circle while keeping my wrist steady. have mouse DPI set at around 2000 so that it maps to the whole screen in that area. i dunno if that's good or what but i don't (yet) get wrist pain from computering. this supremacy. been touching computers since the mid 90s and never had even the slightest hint of wrist soreness.
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i bought a trackball for work because my Varidesk doesn't leave enough room for a regular mouse IMO. It seems lovely and I don't like clicking small buttons with it. it's a logitech m570.
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Chill Callahan posted:On a side note--WTF are these? It's a giant carpal tunnel syndrome machine, just like this thing  Maybe if people would stop using their whole arm to move a tiny little goddamn mouse it would stop hurting so much!
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The XKCD Larper posted:Update: Been using my mother's Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball for about 5 days now. She doesnt use her computer (Which has Ubuntu Installed on it) very much so she hasn't noticed that I have it yet. installing ubuntu on your mothers computer to make her stop using it so you can steal her hardware. that is cold man
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back when I was unemployed and playing dota 13+ hours a day I would get some disturbing carpal tunnel pain. not permanent, but I can see how someone doing extreme mousing all day at work could develop a problem. however my current computer janitor job involves a lot of walking around and very little data entry so I'm nowhere near in need of specialized input hardware
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I can sort of accept that fingertip-controlled trackballs like the ones from Kensington are a viable alternative to a regular mouse, but the thumb-controlled ones like that M570 makes my hand hurt just looking at it
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r u ready to WALK posted:I can sort of accept that fingertip-controlled trackballs like the ones from Kensington are a viable alternative to a regular mouse, but the thumb-controlled ones like that M570 makes my hand hurt just looking at it the fingertip ones are supposed to be the worst of the trackballs, although any different input device is just going to shift the stress to a different part of your arm. i'm glad i have the perfect biomechanics for sitting in front of a computer for 16 hours a day
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blugu64 posted:I've found it impossible to find novelty trackballs since like 1998. you know, 8 balls, smiley faces, etc. I touch the mouse maybe once every 20 minutes so I dont think Id mind one thats like a big pair of tits or a golf ball
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hey guys its only page 3 so you probably havent thought of this yet, but did you notice "trackballs" has the word "balls" in it? you have to squint, but it's in there at the end. might get a chuckle out of it
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not only does it have the word "balls" but also the word "rack" 
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:installing ubuntu on your mothers computer to make her stop using it so you can steal her hardware. that is cold man It wasnt me it was another family member with a severely misguided idea of what it should be like for her to Compute
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Linux Distro Dad
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Agile Vector posted:Linux Distro Dad mods
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Sagebrush posted:i sometimes think about getting a trackball to try it out but i realized that the way i use my mouse doesn't even involve my wrist usually. i just hold it with my fingertips and slide it around in a 1" circle while keeping my wrist steady. have mouse DPI set at around 2000 so that it maps to the whole screen in that area. i dunno if that's good or what but i don't (yet) get wrist pain from computering. hmmm. same
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the point of a trackball being used with the thumb though is that moving fingers goes through the wrist as well, the thumb is way harder to mess up than the rest of the hand
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r u ready to WALK posted:It's a giant carpal tunnel syndrome machine, just like this thing You put that up your rear end.
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hard to use the awp with trackball
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hifi posted:the fingertip ones are supposed to be the worst of the trackballs, although any different input device is just going to shift the stress to a different part of your arm. i'm glad i have the perfect biomechanics for sitting in front of a computer for 16 hours a day weird. i've heard the opposite, that the thumb trackballs were bad.
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this is mine and it is the best
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Who Is Paul Blart posted:this is mine and it is the best scroll ring >>> scroll wheel
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:scroll ring >>> scroll wheel I bet they're great for pretending to be a DJ and remixing someone's post.
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Salt Fish posted:I bet they're great for pretending to be a DJ and remixing someone's post. i typically remix posts clockwise as is traditional in my hemisphere
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:scroll ring >>> scroll wheel I suppose this also neatly sidesteps the question of whether scroll wheels should be reversed or not
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:scroll ring >>> scroll wheel Finally, a nbsd yospinion we can all get behind.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!