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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The mouse is on the left side of the keyboard. Do left handed people use computers like that?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I did when I was younger. Had better fine motor skills with my "primary" hand. Eventually as I started playing more PC games and using computers at school more I got tired of always having to move the mouse around and having to reconfigure keybinds for every game (where it was even possible to do so). So I adapted to right handed mouse somewhere around 14 years old.

    Beyond that, in my time in IT support, I think I encountered only three people who did left handed mice.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Early in my career I was a sysadmin for a multiuser system, and I often had to go to people's desks to troubleshoot problems they were having. That meant using whatever pointing device and keyboard they had. There were a crazy number of variations, including left handed setups of different types. It was actually an interesting part of the job. But yes, some left handed folks do that, as did some people who had issues with their right hand/arm.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah, some do. It's infuriating to use if you're right handed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That’s probably because the artist is likely to be right handed and so oriented everything to the right hand side of the comic. If they’d oriented everything the right hand side of the characters, that would mean placing everything on the left of the comic, which might’ve felt wrong to the artist.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Or it reads better than the mouse being on the correct side. If you're going to wildly speculate about others, assuming incompetence is a really shitty thing to do.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    putting the mouse on the other side would have hidden it from view, obstructed by the monitor. future boy in control of the pc would be a little less apparent. and it looks better having the time machine left vs flipping the entire image. it's a picture, but i think most people would still scan it left-to-right and the time machine should be 'seen' first.

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