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Posted Sep 3, 2025 8:47 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Sensationalist by Vorpal
Parent article: The hidden vulnerabilities of open source (FastCode)

> especially since I have RSI in both wrists, anything that saves typing is great

Sorry to do an ad on lwn, but I use Logitech Ergonomic kit. Take a look at the K860 keyboard if you haven't already, you can get a cheap Perrix, the Rolls Royce used to be Maltron. And the Ergo M575 trackball. I have shoulder problems, and while these take some getting used to, they're brilliant. Typing now, my left wrist is hardly moving at all, and is straight not twisted! (As a guitarist, I'm a six-fingered typist - proper four fingers on the left, hunt and peck with two on the right :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted Sep 4, 2025 18:17 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

For RSI there are several wrist supports, some just a velcro fixed strip with a hole to put the thumb in. I has a very mild case once, got suggested to try this, and it works like magic. I was extremely skeptic.

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Posted Sep 5, 2025 12:28 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

As a decades-long Maltron user who also uses a Glove80 fairly often, I am extremely tempted by the Svalboard, a revived DataHand which goes to absolutely ridiculous lengths to minimize finger movement while allowing you to keep the finger movements almost identical to those you are used to on a more conventional QWERTY keyboard. My only worry is that the movements needed on this wonderfully mad contraption are so small that I'm a bit concerned that I might introduce vast numbers of unwanted keystrokes...