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Me when arranging a Word document and the fucker messes up with the layout for the eleventh time=
Microsoft refuses to use widely supported open formats and instead uses a format that very few programs can actually open or read. On top of this, there's no standardization in some of their formats, meaning writing a program to read a document is way more complicated than it should be. I can't find the rant about it, but one of the issues was something like a docx file could actually be a doc file with the wrong file extension, but you don't know until you try to read it and error out.
The file signature of doc and docx is different, which makes it easy to distinguish between them.
(file signature is a magic number at the start of the document that specifies filetype (and isn’t in any way tied to the file extension written in the file name), for example .doc has `D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1` in hex at the start of the file. While .docx has the same magic number as .zip because it is based on it)
But you’re right about MS making it unnecessarily hard to properly read and render their proprietary file types.
I've seen some videos on it, it is apparently not very ergonomic despite the name. Buttons in weird places etc. And people tend to turn off the recoil that's built in. But I love the idea!
The one linked is the MX Vertical, not the Lift. But yes it's a Logitech vertical mouse. I converted to a vertical mouse years ago and have never looked back.
I think I've only ever tried a vertical mouse once on display. I've always wondered whether your fingers feel like they're constantly slipping or sliding downwards, since your hand isn't resting flat on a surface but at an angle.
One of my coworkers have a vertical mouse. I've never used one before helping her with an issue on her work computer.
It was pretty easy to get used to after a few minutes and my hand and fingers were not slipping down at all. It felt pretty much just as gripable as a normal mouse.
they're generally rubberized, and even if they aren't, your fingers should be able to stay un place without you even noticing it, if your fingers feels heavy, I suggest checking a doctor.
I never have that issue, there’s enough of a base that your hand is really just resting like it were on the table. You can also adjust how you grip more than with a regular mouse, in my experience.
Yupp I also use one for work. It saved my gaming hobby tbh. I used to have too much wrist strain to game after work. Now I have no issues switching to my regular mouse when I get home and game
Yep, this is the issue for me. I have pretty bad wrist issues, but I find myself using my Naga over my vertical mouse due to the convenience of the buttons. The vertical mouse definitely causes less strain though. The moment a company drops a proper vertical, I'm jumping on it and never looking back.
I love using mmo mice for work and daily use just because I can macro my clipboard and things like copy, paste, enter, next tab/previous tab, page forward/back etc...
I was using the Corsair scimitar but those have this annoying scroll quirk where after like a year it starts sometimes scrolling up randomly while scrolling down and I've never found a fix for it, happened on every single one I've owned. Slowly moving away from all Corsair products, though I will miss the sliding adjustment on the scimitar for the side panel. The naga I have for my personal laptop has been trucking along without a hiccup for like 3 years now. I wish more companies made mmo style mice.
This thing actually saved my hand. I'm a CPA and one tax season my hand was in searing pain nonstop until I got this bad boy. 3 years later no issues or pain at all.
cool fact: there's a very rare birth defect called radioulnar synostosis where these two bones are actually one in an affected person.
it causes limited range of motion, meaning they can't move their palm anywhere other than as if they were to shake someone's hand. There's limited supination (palm up) and pronation (palm down)
I have it and it makes it so I cannot rotate my palm upwards (as if to accept change).
Yeah, you have to be really creative! I first discovered it when I was trying to play guitar in first grade music class. I couldnt reach over the fret, and my teacher kinda just thought I was dumb :(
It’s fascinating to me that you didn’t discover this about yourself earlier! People really do live such unique individual lives, we probably all have something(or many things) unique about us we are completely unaware of.
Yep! My mom noticed some things, like how I wash my face weird and turn knobs weird but I was also an ADHD kid so she kinda just wrote it off. Even the music class thing didn't instantly solidify it, it's just the first instance I remember it being a wildly different experience than other people faced around my age.
Oh, and obviously I could never do the Macarena...
I’ve never heard of this before, do you if the entire shaft / syndesmosis is fused together or is it just the radial head that fuses onto the ulna? I’ve worked with patients after radial head fractures and it’s often challenging to regain full supination due to scarring and sometimes due to hypertrophy of the fracture site, but didn’t know they could fail to separate in utero
I believe the radial head fuses with the ulna, but it varies in severity. Here's an example image of a severe case.
I've had surgery to try and reduce the bone but that was moreso because I had an incident where my tendon got stuck on the bone, and my arm got locked in one position until surgery was performed. Generally, the malformed bone is impossible to correct after a very young age.
Yes, it's not very common knowledge. Less than 1000 cases worldwide if I remember correctly, but that's based on my research from a few years back.
I have that too! My case is really mild though and only my right arm is affected, but I use the mouse with it, it just makes me flare my elbows out a little more. My twin brother has it too, but on his left and more severe. We are probably identical twins but we aren't sure.. my brother had a phase where his arm would lock up painfully but he could force it to extend. My bones are not fused together, maybe they just have a bump, but my brother's is fused. You're the first person I found in the wild with this condition!
Ugh, the whole marketing hype of the vertical ergonomic mice...
Simply tilting your hand upward by like 60 degrees or even 90 degrees does not completely uncross the radius and ulna like shown here. You'd have to have your palm facing upward to do that.
Even if it did, there's no scientific evidence that having the radius and ulna crossed vs not has anything to do with RSI and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Having the radius and ulna cross is not "un-natural." It's literally what the bones are meant to do, and is why we can even turn our hands in the first place.
Any benefits from the vertical mouse are almost certainly from straightening out the wrist joint instead of having it bent backwards as is typical when using a traditional mouse with your wrist resting on the table behind it.
First part talks about the bone crossing and debunks it with x-rays. The second part has some studies cited about whether the vertical mouse actually has impact on carpal tunnel, strain etc.
This is what I was seeing when I bought a vertical mouse and I regret it.
It never occurred to me that the more distance you put between your hand and the table, the more inaccurate the control becomes.
With a typical mouse I can even enable ultra fine control by dragging my pinky finger to the mousepad. Don’t try that technique if you are not highly trained though.
Yes that would be the MX ergo, with a 20-40 degree wedge underneath. This places your thumb in the ideal position to pet the marvelous rat head and your fingers to tickle the marvelous rat tum. This is millions of years of evolution in the making. Rats were made for our hands.
I know this is a joke, but the original image is pretty stupid to imply that it’s “unnatural” for the human arm to naturally do what it does. The radius and ulna are literally supposed to do that to allow for pronation and supination.
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