Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls 🖱️

[fatboy@fosstodon.org]

@FlockOfCats mouse balls in soapy water was the future

[projectmoon@social.agnos.is]

@FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp I do this, but with my trackball. Except instead of a q-tip and bowl of soapy water, it's me blowing into it, rubbing the ball with my shirt, and digging all the crap out of the trackball until it works. Rinse, repeat.

[curtadams@urbanists.social]

@FlockOfCats What I hated about cleaning mouse balls is that it never seemed to help. It was still sticky and/or skippy afterwards.

[light@noc.social]

@zillion
> 93% have cleaned a mouse ball
That is honestly astonishing to me.
@FlockOfCats

[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@FlockOfCats Getting the hair and compressed kroonch off of the X, Y, and retention rollers was the worst.

[targetdrone@mastodon.social]

@FlockOfCats A decade ago I bought a super fancy gamer mouse, with the high speed sensor and the blinking glowy LEDs and the extra buttons, but I still have had to open it occasionally to clean out the dust from the optical sensor on the scroll wheel, and to spray contact cleaner in the switches.

Mouse maintenance doesn't end after castration.

[skullvalanche@gladtech.social]

@FlockOfCats When my mouse ball got dirty I would just get a fresh one by boiling an egg and extract the yolk ball.

[chigaze@cosocial.ca]

@FlockOfCats

[nancylwayne@mastodon.social]

@FlockOfCats

[j3j5@hachyderm.io]

@FlockOfCats

[forgottenhero18@mastodonapp.uk]

@FlockOfCats

I did once.

But it was the other sort of mouse.

Lots ok squeaking, sctaching and biting; mouse p**s everywhere.

Do not recommend.

[leiawelsh@toot.wales]

@FlockOfCats If by “cleaned” we mean fingernail and spit then…

[jeffgrigg@mastodon.social]

@FlockOfCats @Rhube

I never really had a problem with the balls. But I've cleaned *lots* of crud off of the wheels inside!

[josh0@babka.social]

@FlockOfCats @josh to be fair, I don’t know that I ever actually cleaned one, but not because it was unnecessary, merely because I was lazy.