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PaperclipPerfector  11mo ago (text post)   3499 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 24, 2023

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I recently got a nicer mouse that has 8 extra buttons you can customize. I have to say it's very nice and I fully recommend it. I also got bands for my glasses so they don't slip off, and it's also been nice having them not slip at all

Fuck mice, install Vimmium. It lets you do ~anything in a browser without a mouse.

Given sufficient software you could do anything in a browser with one key on the keyboard and a really big binary code table. But why?

Because it's faster, more ergonomic, and more convenient

***once you learn 100 commands

For Vim, sure (even then, more like twenty commands for break even: hjklf/nydxrgg would get you pretty far. But for Vimmium, literally just f is enough to be a game changer. Through in udjkF and now you've really got a stew going.

Assign Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to two of them. That'll let you switch between browser tabs. I chose to assign them to clicking the mouse wheel left or right.

As self_made_human says, browser back and forward are incredibly handy, too. I think it's Alt-Left and, sigh, Alt-Right.

I agree that extra buttons are nice. My current mouse doesn't have them, but I used to have one that did, and they were quite convenient in games for stuff like directing allies around.

I use a vertical mouse and split keyboard. My wrists no longer hurt (except for when I binge-scroll my phone). If you have any wrist pain from typing, check out split keyboards.

Having extra buttons is great, just having access to back and forward keys that works in browsers and most apps, as well as easy volume control is so worth it. In video games, I usually bind them to voice chat, far more convenient than hunting down keys on the keyboard.

I swear by the added grips for glasses, back when I was forced to help with surgeries, I hated having mine threaten to slip off my nose and into an open uterus, if an infant sees the extent of my myopia, they're never going to open their eyes again! Not to mention the headache of having a nurse re-adjust them, or shimmy up against a convenient object at head height to nudge them back into place without disturbing the sterile field.

(I ordered a new set, but apparently the tiny Amazon package got lost in a mountain of other crap, ah well, my current glasses have better grip anyway)

Is this just a sticker you put on the nose pads? I was thinking of the strap that connects to your ear pieces and wraps around your head. Croakies, in other words.

For surgery, I might consider athletic goggles like Horace Grant, but I suppose those are more for contact situations, and it could cause issues with fogging.

The ones I've used were rubber pieces you could slot on the stems of your glasses, with the other end hooking onto your ears so the glasses couldn't shift. There wasn't any strap involved.

No offense, but from a fashion perspective you really need something like this:

https://croakies.com/collections/eyewear-retainers/products/croakies%C2%AE-prints?variant=42307041034462

(I just had to check that croakies are still a thing -- apparently yes!)

I'd rather croak ;)

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