Muscle memory
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My muscle memory is almost perfect when typing until recently. My MacBook Pro has completely fucked it in two weeks.
Fucking macs. Still love my Gaylord Pro.
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could someone move this to General please.
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@lucas1 have they switched to Dvorak?
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@lucas1 said in Muscle memory:
My muscle memory
Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to. Forty-six and two ahead of me.
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Stop complaining about it. Use that keyboard intensively, and you'll be back up to speed soon.
What really messes you up is switching back and forth between layouts.
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@dkf I keep on pressing alt+c on a PC keyboard already.
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Wait until you find out the difference in scroll behaviour when using the scroll wheel/trackpad scrolling/etc. between Windows and OS X — especially if you switch from the latter to the former. And no, I’m not talking about whether or not "momentum scrolling” works.
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@Gurth Already turned that shite off on the mac.
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I distinctly remember writing just now that I’m not talking about momentum scrolling. Which, for the record, I rather miss as well when using Windows.
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@lucas1 said in Muscle memory:
I keep on pressing alt+c on a PC keyboard already.
PC keyboard layouts put Ctrl in a really annoying location. :(
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@dkf said in Muscle memory:
@lucas1 said in Muscle memory:
I keep on pressing alt+c on a PC keyboard already.
PC keyboard layouts put Ctrl in a really annoying location. :(
I like it. :)
What sucks are laptops. It seems every other one I get swaps the Fn and Ctrl keys. KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF!!!
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@dcon said in Muscle memory:
What sucks are laptops. It seems every other one I get swaps the Fn and Ctrl keys. KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF!!!
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@Lorne-Kates said in Muscle memory:
@lucas1 said in Muscle memory:
My muscle memory
Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to. Forty-six and two ahead of me.
Soften this old armor
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow
Coming out the other sideStep into the shadow
Forty six and two are just ahead of me
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@Gurth said in Muscle memory:
Which, for the record, I rather miss as well when using Windows.
Wait, since when can't you use momentum scrolling?
TIL that annoying "feature" that means I have to be very specific on how I lift my fingers off the trackpad is actually wanted by people!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Muscle memory:
Wait, since when can't you use momentum scrolling?
Do recent versions of Windows support it, then? (My only Windows VMs run XP and older — going back to 1.02 — and the few times I work with more modern versions it tends to be 7, which doesn’t seem to do momentum scrolling as far as I can tell.)
And yes, I like it: it means I can just give a big swipe over the mouse or trackpad and watch the page scroll by without having to keep pushing.
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@Gurth said in Muscle memory:
Do recent versions of Windows support it, then? (My only Windows VMs run XP and older — going back to 1.02 — and the few times I work with more modern versions it tends to be 7, which doesn’t seem to do momentum scrolling as far as I can tell.)
Yes, and it's annoying as all get out (IMHO just another attempt to make the PC more like a phone).
If I wanted to scroll large amounts, I hit my mouse to the scrollbar and drag. The only time this doesn't work is in asinine infiniscroll windows.
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@Gurth said in Muscle memory:
few times I work with more modern versions it tends to be 7, which doesn’t seem to do momentum scrolling as far as I can tell
Had it since XP, though TouchPad devices didn't support multi-touch back then. Remind me to post a screenshot of the Synaptics control panel.
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@Gurth said in Muscle memory:
Windows VMs
Oh, you're working in a VM? Well that's different. Most VM software only export a basic mouse as the pointing device (or if it's fancy, a tablet mouse for arbitrary mouse placement). I can't get the magic scrolling working in a Mac VM either.
Filed under: screw mobile multi quoting!
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@error said in Muscle memory:
Soften this old armor
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow
Coming out the other side
Step into the shadow
Forty six and two are just ahead of meBurma Shave.
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@Gurth said in Muscle memory:
And yes, I like it: it means I can just give a big swipe over the mouse or trackpad and watch the page scroll by without having to keep pushing.
My laptop supports something called "chiral scrolling", which I like better than momentum scrolling:
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@anotherusername said in Muscle memory:
something called "chiral scrolling"
I can never get that working right.
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@error said in Muscle memory:
Soften this old armor
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow
Coming out the other side
Step into the shadow
Forty six and two are just ahead of mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKLvYGqaC0
Those kids rock.
Real edit: Yes, I know the original is by Tool. I saw them in concert several times.
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@Tsaukpaetra you have to start with a regular scroll gesture in the "scrolling region", and then begin the circular motion, which isn't confined to that region. Also, you have to draw big enough circles that it can easily tell which direction you're going.
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@anotherusername said in Muscle memory:
@Tsaukpaetra you have to start the scrolling motion with a scroll gesture in the "scrolling region", and then you have to draw big enough circles that it can easily tell which direction you're going.
I have trouble getting it to consistently recognize the scrolling region at all. The stupid "Synaptics Touchpad Enhancements" program dies pretty consistently eventually, especially while using Chrome, so when that happens the touchpad magically becomes a dumb mouse (but that's another problem entirely).
No, what's worse is when it starts scrolling the screen when nothing is touching the pad.
Thought my PC was overtaken by goblins again when I was tapping down a few times and stopped to read, when mysteriously the page nudged down again after a few seconds, and waiting a few more seconds nudged down again. Pretty spooky, but at least that only happens infrequently.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Muscle memory:
I have trouble getting it to consistently recognize the scrolling region at all.
Increasing the size of the scrolling region might help.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Muscle memory:
The stupid "Synaptics Touchpad Enhancements" program dies pretty consistently eventually, especially while using Chrome, so when that happens the touchpad magically becomes a dumb mouse (but that's another problem entirely).
...well, I can't help you there, but as you said, another problem entirely.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Muscle memory:
No, what's worse is when it starts scrolling the screen when nothing is touching the pad.
Reducing the touch sensitivity might help.
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@anotherusername said in Muscle memory:
Reducing the touch sensitivity might help.
Awe, but then I can't let my friendly ghostwriter use my PC when I'm away!
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@PJH said in Muscle memory:
@lucas1 have they switched to Dvorak?
Dvorak's too mainstream--they'd probably use Colemak.
