 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Today I'm going to be ranting just a little bit. So for about a year now, I've been trying to get rid of my mouse and I'm not talking about like throwing it away and not having anymore. I'm just being transitioning to the point where I can just use my keyboard as my method of input on my computer. And what I found is that it's annoyingly hard to do it. And really, my workflow is such that for the most part, I can do it, but there are just these certain points throughout the day that I get to where I have to reach for the mouse. Or I just reached for it out of habit. And I'll talk about that before I end the video, if I remember. So really, what I've done is I've transitioned completely to tiling window managers. Now, originally I did this just because it was the in thing to do, right? It's r slash Unix porn. Everybody uses a tiling window manager. That's what I do. So, you know, I just decided to go through and, you know, follow the herd. And over the time I've fallen in love with tiling window managers. I've tried pretty much all of them. I've done videos on quite a few of them. And they're great. Even if I weren't in this mad dash to get rid of my mouse, I'd still like tiling window managers, even if I would just continue to, you know, use my mouth just like a normal person. So I've done that. And that has helped me quite a bit in the quest to get rid of my mouse, because you use your keyboard most of the time to navigate through your workspaces and through your windows and stuff. But the one place that I've completely failed at eliminating my mouse uses in the browser. About six months ago, I found a plugin that's called Vimeo Vimeo. I don't know what it's called. I'll put a link in the video description of what I actually use. But it basically what it does is it gives you VIM style key bindings in your browser. So you can go through and do a lot of the stuff that you can do in cute browser in something like Firefox or Chromium or whatever. You can use, you know, O to open things, B to get into your bookmarks, F to navigate through links in HJKL to navigate through the page itself. It's really good. And that also allowed me to go through and eliminate more of my mouse use. But there are certain things that just still can't be done very well. So if you go to a website like YouTube, and you want to navigate around just using your keyboard and using this VIM plugin, it has so many links on it, you can't actually do that because there's a lot of them are so close together that you can't, you know, differentiate between what link is which. So that's annoying. So that's one point where I have to reach for my mouse. But there are other things like I'm one of those people who still use Facebook. I mean, it's just whatever it is what it is. And Facebook is the same way as YouTube. There's so many links on it that if you try to navigate using the F key binding to, you know, I mean, actually, let me show you what what I mean. So this is Odyssey. But if I go to YouTube here, and I press the F key, as you can see, I get a whole bunch of little flags, I can, you know, press EJ to go follow this link up here. So EJ will follow the Linux link and they'll give me all the links videos. If I want, if I want to click on a video or something, I would press F again and do DP to click on Tech Cuts video here. And this is actually short, which is funny. High tech cut. If I want to go to my channel or go to YouTube studio, this is where things fall down. So if you look in the upper, so I'm using my mouse, if you look up here, you can see these links up here are overlapping. So which one do I choose? So if I choose DF, that was actually the right one. But if I, if I messed up and choose AD, I think that's what this is AD. No, that was the wrong one. See, I don't know. It's really weird. There are certain places on this page that the method of, you know, getting the links falls down. And that's not a YouTube problem because YouTube is expecting you to navigate with a mouse. Because the same thing happens, I believe here in certain places. Actually, it's not as bad here. Well, kind of up here, it is so that you can see these here, they overlap. That's just a, you know, one link. The rest of them seem to be fairly separate. But the point is, there's still parts where I have to reach for my mouse out of necessity. And that's not a great feeling. But the worst part is, is that even after a year of trying to get rid of it and trying to overcome these weird, you know, idiosyncrasies on webpages and trying to find new tools that make it better. My habits still not broken. And whether that's because I still have to reach for every once in a while out of necessity. Or if it's because the muscle memory is just so, I mean, I've been using a mouse and a keyboard, a mouse with my keyboard ever since I learned to use a computer back in elementary school on a Mac. It was probably a Mac too, or it was one of the weird boxy looking ones. I don't know. They were all weird boxy looking ones. I mean, you learn, you play Oregon Trail, right? I mean, even then, even in a text based game, you used a mouse, you know, something, it was one of the original computers that had a graphical user interface. A mouse was the thing was that weird box, weird, like, trapezoidal looking mouse that had like one gigantic button on it. God, that was so long that I'm so old. Yes. So the point is, I still have these problems, you know, the habits that have been ingrained in me for, fuck, 30 years. I mean, ever since I used to computer for the first time, I've had a computer in the house since the year 2000, which is 21 years ago. And even before that was using computers in school, like old gateway models or whatever, and we're using Netscape and Alta Vista as it was our search engine, you know, I've used a mouse for that all that time. I think a lot of people are like that. And to transition away from that is just really, really hard. So my overall point is, is that you can't get rid of your mouse. At least I can't get rid of my mouse. And I'm having a hard time with it, because I really want to I want to use my keyboard completely because I don't have a lot of room in my office here. And the desk I have has like a slide out keyboard tray thing. And it's like, you know, not very big. I'm down side, downsized the my keyboard, I'm down to a 75% keyboard. I've tried smaller ones and I can't do it. I tried to go to a 60. And without the dedicated arrow keys, I just can't do it. I use the arrow keys all the time. I understand that I'm supposed to be a Vim user, but sue me. I still like the arrow keys. I can't help it. And maybe that maybe after I've finally jettisoned the mouse, I can work on jettisoning, you know, getting rid of the arrow keys. That's the next self improvement that I'll handle. But I have this small space and I want to get rid of the mouse pad because then I could move the keyboard a little bit and then be more center on to the screen. I won't be looking at the screen typing like this or trying to type like this when I'm looking at the other screen. It's annoying AF. So I told you this was going to be a ranty video. I can't help it. So in the comments below, let me know your adventures with getting rid of the mouse. Is it something that you want to do? Is it something you've been successful with doing? How if if so, I want to know how. So I love our conversations. Make sure you're sure you follow us on Twitter at the Linuxcast. You can also support us on patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast. 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