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Even more than a nice chair, the biggest thing that has impacted my comfort at the computer is a lumbar support pillow. They make ones that are dense and strap onto any chair and stay nestled near the bottom. They're excellent for keeping your back supported properly.

Vim is the only ergonomic technology I use.
Stay away from emacs if you want to keep your hands in condition!

>>2352
Unfortunately I have invested too many years into the emacs operating system at this point. My only recourse has to ergonomize every other aspect of my work life. UFO-shaped pylon mouse, $1000 Steelcase chair, neck and back support pillows and an ergodox in addition to my IBM keyboard.

I may receive disability payments for carpal tunnel syndrome and smooshed disks but all of my productivity software is fully portable!

I don't care about it. I probably should. I get neck and back pain all the time and eye strain too.

Here is another bit of ergonomic advice: get away from the computer!

>>2355
Real question. How many hours is too much?

>>2356
If you move around a lot while seated and change positions, you can go all day without problems. Otherwise you shouldn't go beyond 4 hours. People died from getting blood cloths or something from sitting in the same position for 5 hours.

>>2356
anything upwards of 2 hours. If you work at the computer, I'd say 4 hours.

>>2359
Hi I just spent 15 hours sitting in front of the computer hunched over with my head facing a monitor to my right. It's bedtime now and it doesn't hurt yet. But it will.

>>2352
this is propaganda, you can use multiple modal editing modes on emacs, including evil (vim emulation)

>>2386
I'm a Neovim user, and I wanted to transition to Emacs since it has great plugin support. However, it's just a lot slower than nvim. I could also use terminal emacs, but I think this loses some of the benefits that you get from a GUI interface that I am looking for anyways.

Used this for work, now taken it back home. Highly recommend. But for gaming I'm having normal mouse.

>>2388
i need my gaming mouse.

>>2350
I've started by making the basic ux of my computers to be much easy inspired by xah lee's advices and setup.
>keyboard shortcuts to open the most used browsers
>mouse to hover
>F1 toggle minimize/maximize
>hold alt + left click to move windows, hold alt + right click to resize windows
>higher mouse sensitivity
>titling the keyboard upwards (the oposite way it's elevate it by those little feets
>puting the display at the head level
>vim keybinding on most of the software I can use it on. I reccomend the vimium browser extension if you are into Vim
>tree styles tab and and cycling through them with a script that is replacing shift hold mwheelup to ctrl shift tab and down the other way

>>2404
I know it's a little off-topic but what's that Windows XP looking theme? It looks cool

>>2405
Hey, for the taskbar I use this lil software that let's you select pre-win7 taskbars

https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar

>>2404
unrelated but you don't need the https everywhere extension anymore, it's been built into firefox (and chrome) for a few years now

nice setup btw, i like the taskbar too

>>2408
I didn't know that lol. Thank you

I install these extension on every browser I use eversince 2016.

>>2409
no problem sushi! they actually discontinued the extension a while back too because there's no need for it anymore. i don't think firefox enables https-only mode by default (i could be wrong), but it's in the settings under privacy and security

also worth mentioning:

- privacy badger is kinda useless with ublock origin (as far as i'm aware), since ublock blocks trackers too

- "i don't care about cookies" is also redundant with ublock. if you go to ublock's settings -> filter lists, there's a section for cookie notices. i don't think they're enabled by default but they're there.

also that extension got sold to avast a while ago. there's a community fork called "i still don't care about cookies", but again idk if it's necessary with ublock

- clearurls is also largely redundant with ublock. under filter lists, enable "adguard url tracking protection", and under custom, add this url:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/refs/heads/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt

- finally, ublock origin can block/disable javascript, so you don't need noscript

sorry for the info dump but yeah, ublock origin makes a lot of extensions unnecessary lol

What's a comfy position to read books? I used to like having pdfs up on the PC moniter because the text is nice and large and you can make notes at your desk, but sitting in a chair all day is uncomfy. Laying down and reading is nice but makes me feel sleepy and lethargic and there are no way to make notes.

I had problems with wrist pain for a while, but switching to a trackball fixed it. I used a kensington expert, it's only serviceable, part of the downside of using a trackball is that they're very niche so you're paying a premium for something that is kind of shitty and poorly designed. I like it a lot, though. I play Xonotic with and I do well enough, but I would switch to a regular mouse if I actually wanted to be 31337.
I was starting to have back problems, so I put together a standing desk and it's great. Other than that, switching away from keyboards with numpads on the right kept my shoulder from being bent outwards when using the mouse, or compromising by having the keyboard too far off to the left. I use monitor arms to keep all of my monitors at the correct height.