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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by wappieslurkz on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:51AM (#38221141)
My severe mouse-clicking induced RSI turned out to be not caused by the clicking itself, but constantly being in a "ready to click" state, i.e: holding your click-fingers(...) slightly tensed on/over the mouse buttons all the time.

Simultaneously this hinders precision movements with the mouse, so my other fingers also tensed up as a result of it.

The solution that cured my RSI for 90% was to route mouse button triggers to keys on an external number-pad, which I operate with my other hand. (I use the "Karabiner" app on macOS to route keys).

In other words: I move the mouse with one hand, and do the clicking with the other hand. This relieves so much tension my RSI was basically gone in a few months.

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by lcedp on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:43PM (#38224929)
That is a great insight. I noticed similar tension in my hands hovering over the keyboard instead of resting nearby.
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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by wappieslurkz on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:52PM (#38225030)
That seems harder to solve, but if it becomes a problem; maybe using a keyboard with more resistive keys (which sounds counterintuitive) might enable you to rest your fingers on the keys in a more relaxt way.
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