Did all that, turns out it is just Cervical Spondylosis.
It's literally science
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salty_chief@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Godric@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Can anyone reccomend a split keyboard? I bought one last week, but it’s tiny and lacks FN keys and holding down alt practically curls my thumb into my pinkie.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Kinesis are king. But if you want a cheaper option, Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic or whatever it’s called is quite good, even though it’s not properly split. The halves are angled so that your wrists wouldn’t be crooked.
And when I inevitably break the key mechanism trying to clean inside, I unpack old reliable MS Natural 4000 and clack away again.
Godric@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’ll look into the kinesis! I finally got a chair for my office/game desk, and my arms are resting too far apart for a connected keyboard.
grandma@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I love my glove80 but it’s not without a learning curve
GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I remember when I was a teenager and those things were all the rage (mid 90s). I wanted one just because they were alternative.
Fast forward a whole bunch of years and I’m pilfering the supply closet at work, and happen to stumble upon a slightly dusty, but functional and genuine OG Microsoft split keyboard. So of course I just had to.
Let’s just say that keyboard is back collecting dust in that exact same spot. The ergos of it were okish, like your hand naturally rests like that. But even just that little difference of layout messed my muscle memory up way too much. And you are right, hitting some of the function keys was too alien.
GaiusBaltar@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Kinesis Freestyle2. I’ve had mine since COVID and still love it. They have both Mac and PC key layouts, including function keys.
Godric@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Someone else reccomended the kinesis as well! Mobility is not a major concern, if it fits in a backpack, I’m OK. Is it mechanical? As everyone knows, keys that go clickety-clack are a must
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 12 hours ago
I like my split keyboard and ergonomic mouse tho kitty-birthday-sad
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
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?
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 9 hours ago
I have a trackball mouse in the middle.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 10 hours ago
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.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
How does split keyboard help?
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
It allows two people to have better posture when they’re both hacking into the mainframe on the same keyboard.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Lol
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I get this reference lol
the_artic_one@programming.dev 11 hours ago
It allows you to keep your arms shoulder-width apart which makes it easier to avoid hunching.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
Ooops@feddit.org 10 hours ago
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.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
(Me crossing out “aggressive twerking”) Dang, wrong again.
morto@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I use a really small table and literally sit on the ground, and I got no back pain
context: it was supposed to be temporary when my table got damaged, but I ended liking it
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 9 hours ago
I don’t have as much desk time as I used to. My back hurts because I’m old and I have done a bunch of different jobs that hurt my back in a bunch of different ways.
scytale@piefed.zip 11 hours ago
My lower back is the opposite where standing straight for a while actually causes pain.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
I use none of those and my lower back is fine. Lifting weights fixed all that shit almost immediately.