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The best posture is the next posture!
Had some pro ergonomic wizards visit my place of work a million years ago and they kept saying this and it has stuck in my mind like an echo from the ancient world.
I try to switch posture regularly when I’m working. It helps.
Making sure to go on walks regularly also helps with lower back pain in my experience! Can’t speak for people who have actual conditions and such, but us regular folk, whose backs are fine, just weak due to sitting down too much, there are ways to combat it without paying an arm and a leg for fancy equipment.
I never get back pain, because I get it all in my shoulders and neck instead.
I use a trackball mouse. That must be why my back is doing great.
i find trackballs fascinating because i really like it but everybody else in the family fucking hate it as if kicked the dog or something. on the brighter side of things - everybody gave up on snooping around on my desktop
everybody gave up on snooping around on my desktop
Bonus points if you can touch-type: Legendless blank keycaps. XD
If that doesn’t work learn Dvorak
We’re old, all the kids are learning colemack these days.
The kids are wrong
But don’t do both. I use qwerty key caps and touch type in Dvorak; when I need to remote into another machine, I likely need to use qwerty until I’m logged in, that would be difficult with blank keycaps
now that’s some next level shit. Gotta try it out. Thanks for the tip.
have standing desk, always lowered
I like my split keyboard and ergonomic mouse tho
I have a tkl to get some close mouse space, how do you deal with it using a split? Where do you put the mouse?
I have a trackball mouse in the middle.
Makes sense! I strongly dislike trackballs/track-“nipples” though. Maybe it’s a configuration issue, a mouse is so quicker and precise no?
Mouse is a little bit quicker, but the difference hasn’t been as big as I was expecting.
What about precision? When I select that specific text part, even a bad mouse makes me feel rage.
Haven’t had an issue with it, but it’s also not something I really pay attention to
I’m using a “laying chair” which is superior for posture
Looks Like someone needs a Paleo Chair 😁
(350-450€)
Who let you in my house?
Until you actually need to stand and realize you’ve stressed your neck muscles and lower back
Lying.
i’m doin that in my chair too
I actually do this sometimes, feels good
Still better than AI slop.
This had me actually giggle out loud.
🖥️🦐
Nah it’s because I don’t have enough monitors.
Need a 4th one to balance things out nicely
But then you won’t have a middle one to look straight ahead. Go for 5 instead
Nah, need to go straight to 9, 3x3 matrix. It’s acceptable to pause at 6 if you are budget conscious.
3 wide, middle stacked
Ah the ol’ crosshair setup
Time to up the resolution
real solution for most people would be to start exercising
Well this and a shorter work day/week so one doesn’t have to chose between a social life, a healthy body, home upkeep, child care, and self care. Maybe sprinkle in some accessible and free healthcare both physical and mental. Idk, wouldn’t be the first time i was wrong about something.
While all of these things would obviously be great, you still need to do the exercise.
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Exactly right. Just a bit of exercise every week is enough to get stronger muscles and no pain in back or anywhere else. At least that worked for me, and its easy to do.
Peoples bodies are rarely used for physical work if you work in some sitting down position all day, and it means you lose all muscles with time.
Stretching too, it doesn’t have to be complicated like yoga, just find a doorjamb and put your arm against it or push against a wall or something, try to touch your toes, raise your arms, breath deep and hold your positions, don’t wiggle or lunge, just stop where you feel a pull and hold it, try to cover all your major support areas.
How does split keyboard help?
It allows you to keep your arms shoulder-width apart which makes it easier to avoid hunching.
Same as the ergonomic mouse. Natural poses are less stressful.
Which means palms facing each other instead of facing down in one case, and hands should-wide apart with relaxed shoulders instead hunching in the other.
Caveat: Most people nowadays never learned to properly type but are self-taught. Which makes using split keyboards more challenging.
Even just a keyboard with left and right halves angled toward the respective arms would help. Because with a typical keyboard, the arms come at it at an angle, and then the wrists are crooked to have the fingers on the straight key rows. An angled or split keyboard allows to keep the wrists straight.
It allows two people to have better posture when they’re both hacking into the mainframe on the same keyboard.
I get this reference lol
Lol
Seems like Workrave is also available on Linux. Did you not know that or did you recommend RSIBreak for Linux because you think it’s better?
no, my lower back hurts because i got impaled there. it hurts less because i have a chair with a double rocker and well positioned monitors
What are you, a fucking casual? GTFO of here unless you’re using a computer-brain interface and floating in a vat. People like you make me sick.
I could have sworn it was due to the severe injury I sustained, but who am I to argue with science?
Hundreds of upvotes on a shitpost can’t be wrong!
Degenerative disc disorderbad mouse
It’s true ! I have all three, and now my legs and upper back hurt instead !
Thank you, ergonomics !
Actually my back hurts because your mother damaged it with her large mass when we were engaged in coitus.
I read coitus as combat. Makes sense I suppose
combat is implied. if you’re doing it right.
This guy pegs
Daaaaaaad stop
That’s what she said
🧐
There’s a big difference between “Dad” and “Daddy” though less than the users of one think.
