Agreed on core and cardio. It's just always felt like a missed opportunity to not get two full rotations of the ppl in each week, but this is working for me so far.

I like the spin bike. I bought a Sunny off Amazon and used two external wahoo sensors to get cadence and rpm measurements. I don't use that data much though, tbh.

I chose the spin bike because I also just cycle normally for recreation. I have a knee injury from several years ago that keeps me away from running. I do like erg machines a lot, but my gym is a home gym in my garage and I don't really have the floorspace for it.

I run this for my friend group: https://element.io/

It's open source and can be self hosted. It's e2ee and built by the creators of Matrix.

I've self hosted and it's a bit finicky but can be done. Nowadays I just pay to have it hosted.

Eh, I think it's just a question of practicing more and practicing deliberately. I don't blame moonlander really. It's well constructed, and the split was really nice for opening up my posture vs a more conventional keyboard. I just have to carve out the time to practice more.

I think it's pretty easy to assign rare operations to the more unreachable parts of the thumb cluster and be fine.

I find that even with my pretty large hands some of the bigger reaches, like left shift to the rightmost column of keys on the left side, can be a bit cumbersome.

Personally I could never find my groove with the moonlander. I used it for about three weeks and couldn't overcome about a 30% reduction in my wpm. Worse though was that I could never get programming to feel really good on it. I acknowledge this has much more to do with me being an old dog that's opposed to new tricks, so I was probably just doing it wrong.

My moonlander has been collecting dust in its box for about three months, which I find to be a shame. Maybe I'll break it out and give it another try.