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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by edjrage on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:39PM (#23237706)
Interestingly I've been using a 12" laptop as my daily driver with a crappy chair, desk and earbuds and no monitor for over two years and I've had no cardiovascular problems so far. Stressed people are quick to blame their environment (tools and whatnot) but fail to take a hard look at themselves.
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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by Disposition on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:56PM (#23242510)
Genes and your body's physical characteristics have a lot to do with it. I have a slipped disk in my neck from bad posture related to using missized chairs and desks while looking down at a 12" laptop for years and I'm not even 30 yet.

The combination of slouching your shoulders forward to keep your hands together and face-down for typing on a small keyboard, and looking down exacerbate such problems, faster for some than others—unless you happen have the build of a horse jockey.

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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by Frondo on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:59PM (#23241789)
Same here, except it's an 11" MacBook air! And I'm old enough to remember Clinton's presidency well.

I think some of us are lucky to have a flexibility gene activated. I have a 24" display I sometimes plug it into, but I've been working off this setup for a few months and it's fine.

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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by NikolaNovak on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:07PM (#23238806)
Age?

:->

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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by edjrage on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:16PM (#23238903)
Old enough to be mindful about the health consequences of worrying about the wrong things and not worrying about the right things.
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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by NikolaNovak on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:12AM (#23257906)
I'm merely asking because the things I could get away in my 20's and things I can get away with in my 40's appear to be wildly different, and I don't seem to be an outlier in this respect :)

(mind you, for me second monitor is about sanity/efficiency, not ergonomics; but a well adjusted chair, keyboard and mouse make a stunning difference to my fingers & wrists these days)

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