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When I bought my first PC in 2002 I also bought a stylus for it and installed Linux on it. And on Linux GIMP was working with two input devices at the same time, so I put the mouse on the left to switch between tools and the stylus on the right to draw with. After a month or two the stylus broke down and I threw it away, but I didn’t switch the mouse back, instead I still use it with my left hand which is very frustrating for everyone who wants to use my computer.
But because games use wasd, I had to move the mouse to my right hand, so every time I want to play something I have to move the mouse and the mouse pad to the right and then afterwards back to the left. Sometimes I forget to move it back but after some minutes it feels so weird that I realize it and move it back.
Oh one more thing, when I was very little I used to use my left hand to eat, when my grandma saw it she forced my parents to bind my left hand to the chair so I would eat with the right hand, so they did and this is how I became right handed.
When I bought my first PC in 2002 I also bought a stylus for it and installed Linux on it. And on Linux GIMP was working with two input devices at the same time, so I put the mouse on the left to switch between tools and the stylus on the right to draw with. After a month or two the stylus broke down and I threw it away, but I didn’t switch the mouse back, instead I still use it with my left hand which is very frustrating for everyone who wants to use my computer.
But because games use wasd, I had to move the mouse to my right hand, so every time I want to play something I have to move the mouse and the mouse pad to the right and then afterwards back to the left. Sometimes I forget to move it back but after some minutes it feels so weird that I realize it and move it back.
Oh one more thing, when I was very little I used to use my left hand to eat, when my grandma saw it she forced my parents to bind my left hand to the chair so I would eat with the right hand, so they did and this is how I became right handed.
Hahaha that is such an oldschool thing to do