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Second the call for quality screwdrivers.
You might be encountering thread locker too. You’ll notice a residue on the threads of screws.
I’ve used a narrow tip on a hot air reflow gun to heat up fasteners I know have a thread locker on them. Do need to be aware of what is heat sensitive and how the hearts spreading. Is sometimes not an option.
I shudder to think of what your sleep habits are like if you guys are doing this.
Appreciate the concern.
I would encourage people to look after their sleep. From personal experience, a good nights sleep is one of the best gifts I can give to myself tomorrow.
Another view; say I have a problem where I cannot stop messaging at night, and it impacts my sleep. I could use a device which lets at least my eyes rest. Is it kind of like the nicotine containing e-cigarette of bedtime phone usage? Might this then be: 1) An improvement? 2) An enabler? 3) A sign that I do have a problem (phone/screen addiction) - as indicated by the effort I would expend trying to mitigate a symptom (gazing at screen = ouch)?
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Let’s try this: There is a perspective that a project like this is an outgrowth of an unhealthy habit of messaging/writing art/beyond bedtime.
Within that view, I think this concept is still worthwhile of curiosity for its usage at other times during the day; when you have already decided you want to do a task that would normally require using a screen anyway.
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There is an idea that suggests interfaces designed to accommodate people with disabilities results in better UX for everyone. I see this as an example of that idea, and I idly believe something partially descended from this will come into common usage.
In it’s mildest form, typing without a screen approaches what a confident touch typist can achieve.
So perhaps I’d say; if your curious, try it some time when you would commit to being at your workstation - “plugged in”. And treat it just the same as your other “screen time” when it comes to looking after your health. No, I wouldn’t let this activity off on the technicality of not involving a screen ;)
Disclaimer: Im talking about my own experiments and cannot speak for OP, who has a better set up.
Ahh. I’m glad I saw this. Thank you for sharing. I didn’t know anyone else did this.
I started taking headless notes with a Bluetooth keyboard, using accessibility features to talk back as I typed (or emacspeak on pc).
Initial goal was to see if I could learn to type almost automatically - and then try type while lucid dreaming! That didn’t work, though the attempts did add a new twist to some dreams.
Ended up finding it nice for note taking. Why strain your eyes if you don’t need to use them?
I found adding extra dimples to the keyboard (little blobs of epoxy) helped me locate my fingers on the keyboard better/quicker. Particularly that number row.
Next obvious pain point for me would be handling navigation behind simple text entry, and being able to create some structure as I type. Sounds like you have a solution for this. Nice!
Next time I have enthusiasm to play with this set up I’ll be looking over your project for sure.
Thank you for this comment.
Could you expand a little around your last sentence: > …afraid I meditated incorrectly…
The dots to your argument didn’t quite connect for me. Maybe there’s some well known fact about meditation and theta states I don’t know about?
Curious what you think was incorrect for your circumstance?
Do you have another approach to meditating that you think is a better fit now?
Regards
Feel for op ;D
Appreciate the description “fractally broken“. oh dear :)
Has a similar predicament[1] (though completely different cause); felt very uncivilised copy and pasting the character I wanted from the internet…
Still wondering what the most elegant way I could have gotten that character, especially if I didn’t have internet access.
Scroll through random files?
Perhaps I might’ve known a little about ASCII and tried converting a few numbers to characters till I found the character I wanted.
At the time I did not, and was thankful the internet provided the character I needed.
Still feel like I got away with something and would have been stumped without that… :)