Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Work updates and questions for viewers / お知らせ" video.

  1. On the ergonomics and keyboard thing.. I don't have problems personally, but here's advice I heard through the years. If you have a related inflamation or general discomfort with using mouse and keyboard, the first thing you should do is not hunt for new stuff to solve the problem, but rather look at your own habits around what you already use. You should take breaks, you should see if you are putting too much tension in muscles and nerves while you are using those, and you should have a stretching routine once or twice a day. There's a standard chart for sitting position at the office in front of a computer to be observed, you can probably find it by looking for ergonomics with an image search. But a basic description goes like this: the center of the monitor should be at eye level, you should be sitting somewhere where you can touch the ground flat feet without effort, in a relaxed position. Your back should be straight, not huntched, relaxed but not too much. You should be typing and using the mouse with your arms in a 90 degree flex, not tensioned. They will be more or less at elbow high. The recommendations are not absolutely strict, but to be followed as best you can, or rather you have to create an environment that enables you to do all of those naturally without thinking much about it. This is specially important if you have herniated disc, which I also have. Herniated discs require a certain set of stretches and exercise that you should always keep up with. Once that is done, then you'll probably identify problems in the stuff you are using... For the most part, changing keyboards and mouse do not change a whole lot unless you have muscle and nerve inflamation problems... repetitive strain injury. I started feeling a bit of that in the past, but it was on the wrist and the cup of the left hand palm. But fixing those were more of a matter of fixing habits rather than buying new stuff. I just had really bad posture in front of the PC, I didn't stretch hands much, and I kept in front of the screen for hours and hours without pause. Since I did play a whole lot of FPS games in the past, I did invest in a better mouse though... but it was only because I played those too much, to the point a regular mouse got uncomfortable. For me, bigger was just better because I could rest my entire hand on top of the mouse - I got myself a Microsoft Sidewinder older model wired mouse which is still with me, but which I haven't been using much because I haven't been playing FPS games a whole lot anymore. But truly, I'm currently using mostly a wireless keyboard and mouse cheap combo that has nothing ergonomic about it which came with my now 6yr old Dell XPS desktop. The mouse is way smaller than my Microsoft Sidewinder, (not as thin as the Apple mouse though) and the keyboard is just standard size a bit thicker than the Apple keyboard, but still pretty thin, with chiclete style keys. It's just that I don't game much with it, and I don't type anything much other than extremely long comments on YouTube videos of channels I just started watching *wink wink*. :P This is annedoctal of course, but from personal experience, I have to say not to worry too much about keyboard and mouse. I guess Apple is kinda notoriously non ergonomical, perhaps at least a better mouse would be nice. But way more important is all the rest of the setup that most people ignore - chair, table, taking breaks often, stretching, constantly monitoring posture, and stuff like that. I often hear about people who have went through 20 different keyboards and mouse combinations, feeling they just can't get it right, when in fact their pain had nothing to do with those.
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