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      20 days ago

      i use one of those trackball mice with the ball on top. first time i tried it i never went back, no need to worry about having a proper surface or desk space for a mouse ever again. if you reach the side of your desk using an optical mouse, you have to pick the mouse up and move it all the way to the other side of the desk, while is a proper ball mouse (a good one without too much resistance) when you flick the ball it can continue spinning a bit even as you release it, so you can flick it to the side and then bend your wrist slightly to then flick it again, and the mouse cursor will just continue moving without stopping, which in games you can do this to have endless turning around, when turning is always stuttery on an optical mouse due to hitting the end of the desk. it takes a little bit to get used to, but at least a good one with limited resistance and a large ball, you can easily get just as accurate as an optical mouse as well. the only downside i find is that i do have to take the trackball out and clean it like the ones on the bottom.

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        You make good points and it’s very rational, but for some reason, having used an optical mouse for most of my life but also knowing what a trackball is like (but just not being used to one, it accounting for like 0.005% of my mouse usage or something), I just…

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    21 days ago

    You’re all liars because no one has mentioned the smell.

    Use common sense! You think nerds changed their egg out on time?

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    20 days ago

    This meme is just wrong

    An egg that large is for a trackball.

    You need to hard boil a quail’s egg for a mouse.

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    21 days ago

    I remember being in 4-5th grade and learning about graphs. Specifically x & y coordinates. One day while cleaning the mouse ball before playing Joust or whatnot I noticed two little geared spindle thingy’s. I vividly remember it clicking that those gears were translating the physical mouses x&y to the screens cursor’s x&y.

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      21 days ago

      this is how most of us learned computer right? You want to play something, it doesnt work or only partialy so you open it up and learned how to fix shit.

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        20 days ago

        That’s my problem with Apple. They hide all files, treating is as a magic box with an incredible search function. But it prevents the user from understanding, and thus learning.

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          Are you talking Apple back in the day or Apple now? It sounds like you’re talking about Apple now. It still sucks compared to a real *nix but you can still pull up a terminal.

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    Lol I used to take the balls out as a prank, see how long the teacher would wiggle it and check the cable before they flipped it lol.

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    20 days ago

    anyone remember that brief period before led mice got good, where you’d have to SLAM the mouse in a direction to get it to comply?

    Rubber mice, that was a given sometimes, but led mice had the same issue for a bit