[consulting] OT: Keyboards and RSI

andrew morton graveltech at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 17:05:49 UTC 2006


On 8/10/06, Erik Mallinson <erik at invisiblelantern.com> wrote:
> I tried Workrave for a while. I think it's probably the best way to go.
> But a warning. It's serious. If you don't like being distracted every 10
> minutes you won't like it. But you'll probably get RSI. It also locks
> you out of your computer temporarily. I liked it in theory, but it was
> too intense for me. There's probably settings or something though.

I'll agree the default settings are way too conservative. I found
myself annoyed at being interrupted so frequently. I doubled all the
timers and halved the break times and it made it much nicer.

andrew


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