This is amazing, as a beginner in Emacs, I love this hand-on videos.

how much is that ?

Hello Prot, 11:00, I used xah-toggle-letter-case to make text uppercase or capitalized. It makes built-in functions more useful. I got a Corne 42 MX and am trying out Colemak. I'm a little concerned that this keyboard doesn't have enough keys for Emacs, but I hope I can manage to stick with the new layout. What was your typing speed with Colemak before you decided to switch back to QWERTY?

I like to follow this story about how Prot solved his injury problem. I have my personal precautions to avoid injuries and this series inspires me so I'm ready to be proactive if I experience any problems. You want to be proactive with this sort of injuries.

The amazing view, thanks for the words.

Thanks for the wise words, keep up the great work.

Excellent ..!! Thank You..!!

Excellent Content ..!!! Thank You for sharing .. Cheers :)

It’s really helpful when creating an index for notes. Thank you, Prot!

american gen-X reaction: "We kiss on the mouth, like MEN!"

LOL, subtitles: "hello everyone my name is Bros also known as Pro"

Is the nutrition or the type of food also a factor in RSI. The people who I have met in real life with RSI were very picky and skip veggies?

Thanks for the video, I'll watch it in my free time. (I'm the guy who wrote to you about re-uploading on VK by the way)

I think I will have to pick those old books on ancient greek philosophy from my self. Very inspiring. Thanks, Protesilaos.

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I wanna also come for a stroll with you

My split keyboard taught me how to properly touch type. Thanks to this, I have not felt pain related to ulnar nerve strain since :) So glad you've got something to help. Having my keyboard shoulder-width apart really helps, too.

I started using a split ergo keyboard last year, and it has made such huge difference in my hands and wrists!

Thank you for sharing this video! As a long time computer user myself (> 40 years), I appreciate the difference a good keyboard can make. My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer and its keyboard was so bad that I gave the computer to my youngest brother, who promptly taught himself assembly language programming using PEEK/POKE in the built-in BASIC interpreter. That kind of self-inflicted suffering I happily avoid. The next keyboard I distinctly remember, was the one that came with the IBM PC AT I used at work. This, to me, was the perfect keyboard. It had the function keys on the left hand side, which was perfect for me, since I am left handed. Sadly, most keyboards these days have the function keys at the top of the keyboard. Sigh. Later on, I used Wyse50 terminals for several years and got accustomed to having the Control key on the home row, so I cannot live without that setup now. Fortunately, I have a .xsessionrc file that changes the CapsLock key to Escape when tapped, and to Control when held down, so I am much happier with that now. I got that tip from this link: tiborsimko.org/capslock-escape-control.html Recently, actually after your last video about your RSI/keyboard, I realised that I was much happier with the keyboard on my Lenovo laptop than with the external keyboard I normally use. Sadly, the laptop has decided to give up the ghost, so I am back to using an external keyboard. This was a horrible Dell keyboard, but digging around in the botton drawer of my filing cabinet, where things normally go to die, I found an old IBM keyboard, yanked it out and thoroughly cleaned it. While it is not perfect, it is a big improvement. It is a model KB-8923 with soft touch keys, so not the perfect keys of the IBM PC AT keyboard, but it's still pretty good. Having said that, the RSI that I have suffered from most in the past, was from using a mouse. This was so bad that I ended up having to wear a brace constantly, not just when using the computer. However, I have since switched to using a LogiTech Marble Mouse trackball, which I have modified slightly using Xmodmap. This has eliminated my RSI in my left hand completely! The only remaining RSI I suffer from, is when I spend all day shelling cocoa. I really have to stop myself from doing it for such long periods. Sigh. You are right about preventive care. Things add up over time. I would like to say that it is REALLY important to avoid sugar in one's diet as much as possible. We saw the effects of diabetes in our old neighbour and it is such a sad thing to see. It reduced her quality of life to be the point where she was bed-ridden. Of course, no one tells you these things when you are young. You feel immortal when you are young, but time is the master of us all. I enjoy your videos very much and have even gone back in your earlier videos. I'm slowly going through them on my journey of discovering Emacs. Now, Emacs is a thing that one should introduce to young people. :) It is SUCH a deep thing once you get into it. Stallman is a genius, no matter what people say about him. He is a visionary of such depth, it is almost uncanny. People laud Asimov and Carl Sagan, rightly so, but Stallman is impressive. And I say that as someone who used vi for many years, and vim after vi. They are both excellent programs, but Emacs is something closer to a cult. I have Emacs sessions open on both my desktop and my laptop constantly. What kind of program is like that? Personally, I'm convinced that Microsoft modelled Excel on Emacs. I don't really like Excel but I had to support it for many years, so I'm very familiar with it. Both Emacs and Excel contain discoverable functions that can be linked using scripts. In Excel, we have worksheets, in Emacs we have buffers. One _can_ create applications in Excel, another form of suffering I happily avoid :) But Emacs, because it uses Lisp, is really endlessly extensible. I written 2 tiny functions so far, but I can see how seductive that ability is. The main reason I didn't use Emacs before, was due to the memory limitations of the mainly small computers I used to work on. Nowadays, computers have more RAM than anyone can use, so Emas is a perfect fit :) Thank you once again for an enjoyable video!

Thank you for sharing! I used Kinesis 360 and Glove 80, and while they helped with pain, they only helped partially. Then, I got Ferris Sweep, a keyboard with only 34 keys. On top of that, I decided to use the new Nocturnal low-profile switches, with only 20-gram activation force. Extreme? Maybe. But it did it for me, and I can now type, comfortably, for as long as I need.

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Thank you for sharing. I started experiencing RSI and bought a split keyboard as well. The pain subsided after a few days of using the keyboard.

I’ve entered in the rabbit hole. If you want to go deeper without expending money, go check the miryoku keyboard layout. It is really nice, I’ve got addicted. The challenge is to use the other keys not used by Miryoku to be a cool extension for the defaults - for instance dedicated keys to some emacs key bindings.

you shouldn't sit more than an hour none stop. take 5 minutes each hour stretching muscles and walking

i got RSI symptoms exactly when began to use a split ergo keyboard, and when I use laptop pain goes away. So, for myself I concluded that keyboard is not important, but habits how you use it are important.

Take care🙂

This type of content draws so much new users to Emacs. It's so frustrating after searching and searching, no one except you can give an easy and comprehensive overview of the builtin functionalities along with package extension. Thank you!

For me hedonism is when the seek for pleasure has gone too far, and it you end up avoiding any effort whatsoever, i.e a mountain hike (because you might get tired). Btw, you walk pretty fast. So question: In your long walks, do you use to think? Because I personally tend to switch off my brain and just feel everything that surrounds me, and I sometimes I wonder if that's good or "bad" in terms that I could also use the walking time to think about stuff in my life.

I appreciate the length of your philosophy videos. It gives me time to digest your points more thoroughly and make them stick in my mind. It must be much easier though to act out a intelligent/informed/sustainable hedonism in your environment. Where I and probably most of your audience live, such things are much less in the control of the individual, and it takes considerable effort to gain some freedom from the controlling mechanisms around us. 10 years ago it might have been easy access to drugs, and now it's the giant internet platforms steeling your time. Perhaps the movement stems from this kind of environment, where extreme claims like hedonism is bad seem more reasonable.

Hello from Portugal. Inspiring and insightful. Your minimalistic approach to the existence is very interesting and the appeal of a technological emacs monk is irresistible. Thank you for your generosity with denote which I use daily, and for the modus themes also. Thank you also for sharing your philosophy.

Well, that was fun! I've been sitting here, shelling cocoa, listening to your talk as you walked up your mountain, very enjoyable. Thank you so much for sharing that video. It's 10:34am here on my tropical island and it has been a very rainy morning. The whole island is covered with cloud and it will probably continue raining all day, so no walking outside for me :) I have been following your Emacs videos and learning a lot, so thank you for those as well.

People die before they go wrong. Before 17 or 18 many will die multiple times

Prot you will need to dis-aggregate (differentiate) with respect to your view on recreational drugs. Not all drugs are equally addictive, and not every person is equally susceptible to addiction.

Beautiful

Looking good! Pretty inspiring, undertaking such a difficult project. I wish I had your resolve.

I am proud of your progress. I find you as an inspiration to stay positive and perservere. I share similar interests such as philosophy, linux and software programming. Subscribed!

A few months or may be a year ago you were using your own package manager similar to use-package. What made you change your mind about this?

Finally both Atlas and me are happy to see Prot smile

Great stuff prot! Your journey is remarkable! Wish you all the best.

Prot Emacs master, dog wizard!

Why did you quit coffee? Whats your imagined end goal of the hut? What things do you want to eventually build there?

This reminds me of Ross Geller trying to play bagpipes. Sorry. 😂😅

Glad things are looking up for you Prot!

The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

You are an inspiration Prot!

Absolute legend! Emacs guy living in a hut, it doesn't get any more legit!

Looking good! Glad to see that you are doing well. Though avoiding the pitfalls of idealizing a pastoral life, a life of contemplation sounds great. Before I settled down in a city, long commutes and walks were my moments of tranquility and contemplation-something I really miss. I hope to find a life both mentally and physically gratifying. Thank you for these vlogs.

Your journey of self-sufficiency and independence is truly inspiring!

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Dear Prot, I'm so proud of you and how far this project went. Best wishes and thank you for the content and wisdom you share with all of us.