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elorantlast Sunday at 8:17 PM1 replyview on HN

Have you tried mechanical keyboards? They were a life saver for me. I can type more than 100k keystrokes/day without any pain whatsoever.


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8f2ab37a-ed6clast Monday at 1:42 AM

Yep. On a keyboard with 8 thumb cluster keys per side, and custom 35g switches to lower the force needed to actuate, that helped a lot, but still not enough to be pain-free. Unfortunately once the damage is done on certain joints you can only do so much short of not using those fingers at all. 30 years of hammering keys pretty hard eventually catch up to you.

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