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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Randall Monroe helped radicalize me as a teenager and I didn’t even realize it was radical. Like of course information wants to be free! And of course techno feminism makes sense. And of course dvorak is the superior keyboard layout.

Also his cancer comics were at one point the most stabilizing part of a particularly unstable part of my young life.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago

wait he advocates for dvorak? What year is this? I would surely take him for a colemak kinda guy

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Idk the 00s? I get the arguments for colemak but Dvorak has a certain elegance to it that’s unsurpassed. I like my vowel row.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I just realized that I've been using Dvorak for longer than I was using qwerty before that.

And I wonder if it's why I don't have carpel tunnel problems despite pretty much living on my PC. Though I'm also the type to find a comfortable position regardless of my posture, which might help with wrist health. I'm not really sure why my back doesn't kill me at this point when my posture has been horrible all my life.

But yeah, I find typing on Dvorak is just comfortable.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah I switched in college when my wrists started hurting. My wrists are fine now despite typing a lot and doing other stuff that’s hard on them like bicycle repair. It solved the problem in months. And all it cost me was the ability to function in a QWERTY world. It does always get me nerd cred with IT departments though.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Fair enough! My vaguely uninformed impression is that dvorak does a lot of hand alternating which is good for typewriters but not necessarily keyboard typing. Either way I learned Colemak DH mod and I am NOT learning yet another layout that shit took me 3 months

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

The hand alternating is actually supposed to be for ergonomics and typing rhythm. It’s one of the perks imo. But yeah that’s totally fair. And colemak has its advantages, I hear it’s easier to pick up, and someone like me would probably have benefited from it being less different from QWERTY as I lost my QWERTY abilities. But I too am not spending another 3 months learning a new layout

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It's kinda funny, I use a qwerty layout on my phone without problem, but I have to concentrate really hard to type on a qwerty keyboard layout to avoid dropping back into Dvorak.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah! It’s annoying the hell out of me as I’m troubleshooting what’s going wrong with my home assistant setup. Let me use my superior layout.

But yeah I think it really comes down to muscle memory. I know what action produces what letter and don’t even have to think to spell it all out. I just think words and can tap them out on my phone or keyboard without looking at the keys.