Ah--the big RSI trigger for me is mouse clicking with my right hand, particularly if it's way over to the right of an extended keyboard. I think I wrecked myself between coding on Solaris X11 workstations and messing around with my Mac in the 1990s.
So I mouse left-handed, which for some reason is fine, or use a laptop trackpad, also fine. If I were a PC gamer, the FPS player's convention of mouse look + WASD would not fly--I'd have to remap those movement keys to be more accessible to the right hand so I could gun with my left. Cursor arrows would work. (When I play Atari games in Stella with the keyboard, I usually use cursor arrows for movement, which I figure is more Atari-like since the CX40 joystick was made to be operated with the right hand, left holding the base and left thumb on the fire button. It was an ergonomic nightmare, but we didn't know any better.)
I am not otherwise left-handed. But people who watch me working probably think I am.
(I recall trying to reverse the three buttons on those Unix mice for left-handed operation, and discovering that software support for it was really, really, really spotty.)
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Date: 2024-10-14 07:34 pm (UTC)So I mouse left-handed, which for some reason is fine, or use a laptop trackpad, also fine. If I were a PC gamer, the FPS player's convention of mouse look + WASD would not fly--I'd have to remap those movement keys to be more accessible to the right hand so I could gun with my left. Cursor arrows would work. (When I play Atari games in Stella with the keyboard, I usually use cursor arrows for movement, which I figure is more Atari-like since the CX40 joystick was made to be operated with the right hand, left holding the base and left thumb on the fire button. It was an ergonomic nightmare, but we didn't know any better.)
I am not otherwise left-handed. But people who watch me working probably think I am.
(I recall trying to reverse the three buttons on those Unix mice for left-handed operation, and discovering that software support for it was really, really, really spotty.)