Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systems
Oct 13, 2026, 3:51 AMNothing helps you learn keyboard shortcuts quite like having your mouse crap out on you
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Karl Statzkstatz12@discuss.systemsOct 13, 2026, 4:21 AM@ricci I am in the office 2 days a week. I routinely forget my trusty track pad one or both of those days. The struggle is real.
Radio AzureusRadioAzureus@mastodon.socialOct 13, 2026, 6:17 AMI learned to use a mouse on my C64 in GEOS Graphics Environment Operating System.
It was nice but not required.
We are now many, many decades further and my stance has not changed
The speed at which I can fly using the keyboard with CTRL keys is massive compared to the slow and cumbersome Mouse interface
Drew Scott Danielsdrewdaniels@mastodon.onlineOct 13, 2026, 6:33 AM@ricci I once memorized X exiting commands (ok that one was easy), and the Windows restart key sequence to both deal with display issues.
I’ve always had spare mice, except notebooks/laptops where I had pointing devices that never seemed to fail (but were painful to use).
I love keyboard navigation, but gave up when I had to do a lot of web page interaction.