Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls 🖱️
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@FlockOfCats I never did the "dunking into cleaning solution" thing. I cleaned it with a wipe, and *maybe* ran it under water and patted it dry. Cleaning solution? What kind of fancy-pants mouse balls are you cleaning over there?
Truth be told, me neither. I always used wipes, too!
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats Oh, I did it a lot of times, since I had an Atari ST.
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Truth be told, me neither. I always used wipes, too!
Fingernail and flick! -
Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats I still remember when I bought my first optical mouse, I was like "Woah, this new technology, how good can it be anyway"
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats I was there ... ten thousand years ago.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats Funny enough, I'm slightly too young to have had to clean them, but I did use them and opened one up once as a young child (as opposed to when I was older but still a child, as I used optical mice by then).
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@zillion @FlockOfCats I am amused by this new proxy variable for age>=40.
@mekki @zillion @FlockOfCats also if you remember when optical mice were called "laser mouse" to differentiate them from mechanical mice (even though they never really had lasers, just a red LED); works just as well.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats
You can't doomscroll if your mouse doesn't have a scroll wheel.[Temple Tapping Meme]
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@FlockOfCats I was there ... ten thousand years ago.
I was there, Gandalf….
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I was there, Gandalf….
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats This is obviously a joke - mice are flexible enough to clean their own balls.
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Fingernail and flick!@cy @FlockOfCats That's the way I've always done it.
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@RachelThornSub @pussreboots @FlockOfCats
i think the attitude of those early UK companies still lives on in the Raspberry Pi initiative
@jamesrg @RachelThornSub @pussreboots @FlockOfCats and out of Acorn grew ARM
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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?
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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.
