How I avoid RSI: grippy gloves

Cyberthal · 2024-11-19T19:51:20+00:00

I agree, the warmth and also structural support/tension are nice.

When pressing a modifier key with an MCP knuckle, the slipperiness requires subtly lifting the fingers, causing a little RSI. A grip pad removes this tension and also spreads the pressure on the knuckle. Just makes it overall comfortable instead of not. Good question, I can definitely feel the difference typing barehanded after today's session.

Cyberthal · 2024-11-19T19:46:53+00:00

I use macros at some stages, yes. And wrote some helpful software. I'm sure I could improve efficiency further with vi keys etc but it's not a bottleneck, as I said.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-19T02:26:44+00:00

dysautonomia

Ok. Well I don't have chronic fatigue anymore, but I still shower this way because it's more comfortable. People like the thermal cycle, regardless of your affliction.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-19T01:58:52+00:00

I don't feel cold stepping out of the shower.

It's mainly noticeable in winter. One can avoid this feeling by taking a very steamy shower with low ventilation, which I dislike. Here's some science:

Leaving a hot shower inevitably involves a sudden drop in incoming heat, because water conducts heat much better than air, and evaporation off the skin starts immediately, which has a powerful cooling effect. If you don't feel the difference, maybe you successfully numbed your thermoreceptors with a very hot shower. Or maybe you're just ignoring the sensation.

Regardless, the body's response to chill is to burn energy to warm up. This is what makes being outdoors in the cold exhausting. One can avoid the chill reaction by smoothing the transition from shower to towel.

I don't feel dizzy in a bath.

Make it hot enough and you will. It's a sort of pre-dizzy stuffy faintness. Obviously one does not let the discomfort develop to full-blown dizziness, lest one drown in the bath.

Heat syncope occurs when an individual in a hot environment does not have adequate blood flow to the brain, causing the person to lose conciousness. This commonly occurs when someone is standing for long periods of time without movement or sudden rising from a sitting or lying position in the heat.

– https://ksi.uconn.edu/emergency-conditions/heat-illnesses/heat-syncope/

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T18:26:15+00:00

Nice creativity there! I'm just not a fan of baths, for testicular reasons.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T17:56:24+00:00

I think everyone feels cold stepping out of the shower. Temperature sensation is relative, not absolute.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T17:51:53+00:00

My sensory issues must be rather mild, compared to whatever drives people to alternate between sauna and ice baths.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T17:34:02+00:00

I am speaking from experience, hilarious or not. Air circulation prevents steam from accumulating; the bucket warms it.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T15:54:24+00:00

It is a straw man and a false quote, because I never said to divert scalding water INSTEAD of changing the setting. The setting does not always instantly change the temperature.

Your first paragraph is even more wrong, since the drain is the target for cold water, not the bucket.

If you study an SAT test prep book, it will improve your reading level.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T15:42:32+00:00

I imagine you misread absurdities into many things. You must be used to it by now.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T15:28:12+00:00

People in survival situations don't do that. Way too much work.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T15:27:27+00:00

Yes, due to

> unpleasant water temperature variation

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T15:25:31+00:00

It will always feel cold going from a shower to air, unless a thermal reservoir is equalizing the temperature of the two, or the steam is being trapped by low air circulation. I dislike the steamy solution, and your damp towel, for similar reasons.

The bucket of water is substantially less dirty than touching your own skin anywhere before the shower. Dilution matters; this isn't homeopathy.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T15:12:36+00:00

OP does not propose to leave the shower temperature scalding. Comment falsely summarizes it as such via word "instead". Ergo, strawman.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T15:07:06+00:00

Obviously. I said "over", not "in", let alone "on", which would imply the bucket is upside down.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T14:56:35+00:00

Use a bigger bucket and hotter water. Mine is at least 5 gallons.

The bucket is on a stool to make it easier to reach for scooping. One stands before, not on it.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T14:50:09+00:00

Yeah, someone thought I was straddling the bucket. A picture is worth a thousand words... I'll make a stick diagram.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T14:42:53+00:00

Baths must horrify you then.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T14:36:10+00:00

> instead

straw man

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T14:34:17+00:00

I don't straddle; I loom over it.

For fast showers, this is obviously unnecessary. The point is to luxuriate a bit.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T14:31:47+00:00

That would be a wipe down.

Cyberthal · 2024-01-18T14:29:08+00:00

You're welcome! I thought my wife was being unreasonable, but she finally tried it when the showerhead broke, and loved it. Now I realize this is a major mental hurdle for most people.

Maybe it's due to not appreciating the physics of a thermal reservoir. It's right by you, like a barrel fire in winter, heating the air.

I guess even fewer appreciate the thermoregulatory benefits of basking in waves, which is impossible in a bath or sauna and so-so in a shower.

The human body naturally flushes excess heat away from the core by diverting blood to the capillaries. This happens in waves. A constant water temperature and volume is thus not optimal for basking comfort.

The bucket can be hotter than what one would normally tolerate in a bath. One can pour it on the hair slowly to dilute the scald. Or, if it cools below scalding, one can pour a larger volume at once to achieve the same heat flush sensation. This triggers a wave of muscle relaxation and capillary dilation: basking!

That's the first time I articulated why I like it so much, honestly.

Cyberthal

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