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by solardev 580 days ago
Rather than a "stick" (prohibiting me from using my mouse), I'd prefer a "carrot" approach: It observes the things I click on, in the apps I normally use (IDE, Slack, browser, etc.) and offers a gentle "Psst... next time you can push CTRL-CMD-ALT-F4-DEL to do that!" toast in the corner.

That would require app-specific keymaps and some way to monitor mouse clicks in foreign windows (accessibility permissions?), but I'd be more likely to use it than something that just blocked me from mousing. I already have one of those... it's called forgetting to charge my battery =/

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That’s an interesting approach. I’ll have to look into it more.

It’s hard finding a balance between the carrot and stick approach. I tend to think of it more as a scale instead of binary.

For me, still having the mouse available and requiring the caps lock key to be pressed in order to use it, was the right balance.