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Filing the corners off my MacBooks
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Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
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I've heard this but I've personally been typing this way for 25+ years (wrists on the rest, including on laptops exclusively for the last 15) and my wrists are fine. Meanwhile people I know with ergonomic keyboards and everything that's supposed to save your wrists are the ones with bad wrists.
The reasonable takeaway from that correlation is that people with preexisting issues turn to ergonomic keyboards to avoid worsening those issues, not the other way round.
While this is true, if standard keyboards were bad then everyone who uses them would have issues, yet many (most?) don't.
Sometimes I think it comes down to actual typing technique. For example. I've heard of "Emacs pinky" which is easily avoided by simply using the Ctrl key opposite the key being pressed (use right Ctrl for C-c for example). I religiously never use Ctrl, Shift or Alt + another key with the same hand and I feel that's been huge. Also my elbow, wrist and hand always form a straight line to the keyboard with a standard laptop keyboard and the right body position/desk and chair adjustment.
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
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Form over function
Yes although every time I open the lid with one hand I wonder why no other manufacturer seems to get their hinge friction so perfect.
Many/most of the other laptops I’ve taken apart have their hinges screwed into plastic, or worse, the hinges themselves are plastic too. This is a cost cutting measure and also limits the amount of tension since the plastic can’t take higher tension.
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#664> I file the sharp corners off my MacBooks. People like to freak out about this The fact that any conscious human being has the time or energy to be "freaked out" about someone futzing around with their own devices is astounding to me.
It's a certain kind of tasteless to take a thing which most people consider a very expensive luxury, and show off how little it means to you and how casually you damage it.
People in a museum gasping at a child almost knocking an expensive vase off a pedestal, for comparison. Then walking in and damaging the vase deliberately while pretending that you don't understand what people are gasping about, to show off that $2000 is nothing to you.
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#665Earlier quoted context omitted.
Laptops are unergonomic by default, no matter how you position them, either the screen is too low or the keyboard is too high. I think most developers just use them docked with an external monitor and keyboard most of the time (I certainly do).
On the other hand, placing your laptop on your belly when lying down on a couch is peak computing ergonomics.
Only if you disable touchpad and use the nipple (Thinkpad).
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
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I'm a bad speller. At some point I improved, but on the early days of the internet I would intentionally misspell things as it just got some folks really going like a light switch ;)
It still does. I'm not sure what benefit it is for people to point out such mistakes, but my biggest problem comes from glide typing. Often, my device decides it knows better what word I intended than what I actually intended. I've gotten to the point where I don't especially care about those mistakes either if it's an otherwise unimportant conversation. I think there are just some people who care entirely too much a…
> I'm not sure what benefit it is for people to point out such mistakes
A feeling of superiority, of course
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#667I have a MacBook and honestly barely use it anymore partly because of this. The front edge digs into my wrists after any extended session. It surprises me from Apple — a company known for obsessing over every detail of the user experience. Do they not test these things for hours of actual use? It's the kind of thing that seems like it would get caught immediately in any real-world usability testing.
Reminds me of the magic mouse having the charging port on the bottom
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#668I don't like it. I would just attach a part of a silicone baking form to the front of the body. This can be undone at any time.
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#669Doing this to a work computer seem a bit questionable from the ethical standpoint. Totally fine to do whatever you want to your personal belongings though.
> Doing this to a work computer seem a bit questionable from the ethical standpoint. "Ethical standpoint" seems like the wrong choice of words. I think you mean "equipment ownership standpoint.". Ethical implies a set of values, vs contractual terms of equipment use. You can't be unethical to your employer, only to people like your coworkers and customers, or other living beings that your business activity impacts.
Why can you be ethical to your coworkers and not your employer? You boss is a living being too, and he is working for the company just like you are, even if his status is different. And your coworkers are the ones who make up the company, so being ethical to your coworkers is being ethical to your company.
And if filing your computer causes a problem to your IT department for whatever reason, and you do it without approval, then I think it is indeed not very ethical, it really depends on the situation. The IT department people are your coworkers too.
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#670Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also an issue on the new Neo. It was the first thing I noticed when I tried one in the Apple Store. I unplugged the power cable and it went away, replugged and it came back. I'm in the UK so I expected grounded electricity supply.
Disappointing. I understood Neo doesn't come with a power plug in UK; was yours the official one?
It was just me trying one in the Apple Store