Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls 🖱️
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@FlockOfCats Ugh, and that stupid fiber-like formation of hairs and gunk that would form on the rollers was so hard to get off even with a q-tip... Actually, it was, more than anything else, the biggest culprit in reducing mouse accuracy. I never actually had to do any of the rest there, just get that off the rollers.
@nazokiyoubinbou @FlockOfCats ah yes, cleaning the rollers using the stalk from the lid of a BIC Biro
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats it's ironic many have, to this day, not learned to clean their balls
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@FlockOfCats
I have a whole bag full of old mouse balls. A place I used to work threw out a lot of old mice and I collected the balls, thinking they could be useful for something in the future.Heavy, smooth, rubber coated, with a uniform size. Some day I will figure out what to do
@jannem Well, you *could* make another marble machine with a unique sound?
Just hope it's not the rubber type that melts after a few years in a plastic bag? -
Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats smh smh smh
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats Wait, I still do that... With my trackball, that is. And it is more lint removal than ball cleaning.
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@zillion @FlockOfCats I am amused by this new proxy variable for age>=40.
@mekki @zillion @FlockOfCats I started using a mouse a Xerox on a 6085 terminal, and it was an Optical mouse. They "upgraded" me to a Windows 95 PC with roller ball mouse. Then later all mice went Optical.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats ... or who have used computers before mice.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
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Did you know?In Australia to open the lid for ball holder you had to turn it clockwise, opposite as depicted.
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@FlockOfCats
You can't doomscroll if your mouse doesn't have a scroll wheel.[Temple Tapping Meme]
@FlockOfCats @swope When I was young we used pgup and pgdn! Now kid get off my lawn. -
@alterelefant @kilroy_was_here @zillion @FlockOfCats
When the mouse pointer is not moving on the screen, do you
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats some of us still have those at home!
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@pussreboots @jamesrg @FlockOfCats My high school (semi-rural PA, 1981-1983) was not cool enough to have Apple IIs. If I remember correctly, we had some variation of the Radio Shack TRS-80. No mouse, of course.
@RachelThornSub @pussreboots @jamesrg @FlockOfCats
My university had a DEC PDP-10 which also didn't come with a mouse
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp
so much fun to remove someone's mouse ball
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@FlockOfCats
I have a whole bag full of old mouse balls. A place I used to work threw out a lot of old mice and I collected the balls, thinking they could be useful for something in the future.Heavy, smooth, rubber coated, with a uniform size. Some day I will figure out what to do
@jannem @FlockOfCats
Some people use them in washing machine.
Of course, only works if the drum roll on horizontal axys (not like Asians washing machine) -
@jannem Well, you *could* make another marble machine with a unique sound?
Just hope it's not the rubber type that melts after a few years in a plastic bag?@eq
I checked just this spring (cleaning my room/study/garbage dump) and they're fine. Whatever they're using it's really good quality. I guess it has to be if it's going to wear against some rough tabletop with crumbs and dirt for years at a time. -
Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats Ha! I don't remember ever washing the ball, but I regularly scraped the crud off the little rollers.
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@jannem @FlockOfCats
Some people use them in washing machine.
Of course, only works if the drum roll on horizontal axys (not like Asians washing machine)@lautreg @FlockOfCats
OTOH, in vertical machines (we have one) I bet they'll make a really cool drumming sound.I just might try that the next time my wife is away
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@lautreg @FlockOfCats
OTOH, in vertical machines (we have one) I bet they'll make a really cool drumming sound.I just might try that the next time my wife is away
@jannem @FlockOfCats
I understood that theses balls help when the dress are too light. -
Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️I have done this. I agree with your conclusion.
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My work study job was in the nursing library and one of my core duties was cleaning all the mouse balls lol
@FlockOfCats @Rhube I worked in a college. We had to glue ours closed or they got stolen!
