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Surprising approximately nobody, I'm rough on my computer equipment.
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My keyboards seldom die due to mechanical failure - they usually succumb to spilled coffee (because my usual sugar/cream levels are just the right blend to short stuff out as well as make it sticky).
I'm an almost-conventional four-fingered typist - my pinkies are pretty much out of the loop, and I shift almost exclusively with my left index finger (inefficient, I know) and space predominantly with my right thumb. This is my... year? two year? -old MS Natural 4000 at the office (I have the same one at home).
Amusing, Sherlock Holmes-esque usage notes that may or may not be discerned: I spend a lot of time backing over groups of things to highlight and cut/copy/correct, because my left arrow is the only one that's been obliterated. My left hand sits higher on the keyboard (the right hand has only scuffed off the bottom half of things) - at a guess, this is probably because I swing my right hand back and forth to/from my trackball, while my left hand just chills out (also, my desk is slightly asymmetrically canted to my left around the vertical axis - I sit in the middle of an L-corner in front of two screens, and the keyboard is aligned with the left one, rather than down the middle, because of the stacks of speakers I put it and my trackball on when I work standing up). I use the ampersand (&) a lot, which is why the 7 gets extra abuse.
Interestingly, the keyboard on my Asus netbook shows almost no wear and tear after two years - just a bit of shininess where the right thumb strikes the space bar and a bit less of that on the frequently-struck letters.
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My keyboards seldom die due to mechanical failure - they usually succumb to spilled coffee (because my usual sugar/cream levels are just the right blend to short stuff out as well as make it sticky).
I'm an almost-conventional four-fingered typist - my pinkies are pretty much out of the loop, and I shift almost exclusively with my left index finger (inefficient, I know) and space predominantly with my right thumb. This is my... year? two year? -old MS Natural 4000 at the office (I have the same one at home).
Amusing, Sherlock Holmes-esque usage notes that may or may not be discerned: I spend a lot of time backing over groups of things to highlight and cut/copy/correct, because my left arrow is the only one that's been obliterated. My left hand sits higher on the keyboard (the right hand has only scuffed off the bottom half of things) - at a guess, this is probably because I swing my right hand back and forth to/from my trackball, while my left hand just chills out (also, my desk is slightly asymmetrically canted to my left around the vertical axis - I sit in the middle of an L-corner in front of two screens, and the keyboard is aligned with the left one, rather than down the middle, because of the stacks of speakers I put it and my trackball on when I work standing up). I use the ampersand (&) a lot, which is why the 7 gets extra abuse.
Interestingly, the keyboard on my Asus netbook shows almost no wear and tear after two years - just a bit of shininess where the right thumb strikes the space bar and a bit less of that on the frequently-struck letters.
