Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls 🖱️
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats
I remember:
1. writing a guide for my secondary school IT class on how to navigate a computer without a mouse, when the mouse was stolen
2. digital mice finally arriving but only being able to use them on a very small number of surfaces that could reflect the light back properly -
@M0PWX @Felila @FlockOfCats That rings a bell, but I can't for the life of me remember what "interleaving" was.
@RachelThornSub @Felila @FlockOfCats
the disk controller couldn't read / process data quick enough as it came off the disk, so it wrote every 2nd or 3rd sector, then filled in the gaps
you used to have to run special programs to work out the best interleave factor based on spindle speed, speed of the controller and encoding (MFM / RLL)
so much fun and performance tanked if you set it to 1:1 as it would read sector 1, miss the start of sector 2 and have to wait a full rotation for sector 2
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats I want my dirty mouse ball back!
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️i'm being gatekept
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I was in the meeting when the head sysadmin for a large university dumped a box of mouse balls onto a conference room table.
"You turned down my request for optical mice.
You want to know why trouble tickets take so long and I can't get projects finished?
Here's why. Two hundred mouse balls replaced this quarter, thousands cleaned and serviced.
Every time one of my staff touches a mouse with a ball, it costs twice what a modern ball-less mouse would cost.
Every time you cut my capex, you pay twice that in opex."A truly epic scene.
He got his budget request.That guy had the balls to say what needed to be said.
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@wonka @Felila @FlockOfCats No, no, no DE-fragging! It's the opposite of fragging! But almost as soothing! Although it does require a *hard* disk. You can't defrag a floppy disk.
@wonka @FlockOfCats @RachelThornSub @Felila Fun fact: Apple Pascal (Apple II era) could only write a file to contiguous space, so you actually did have to defrag floppies sometimes.
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@wonka @FlockOfCats @RachelThornSub @Felila Fun fact: Apple Pascal (Apple II era) could only write a file to contiguous space, so you actually did have to defrag floppies sometimes.
@bcasiello @wonka @FlockOfCats @Felila (I just threw hard vs. floppy in there for extraneous sexual innuendo, but also I did not know that about Apple Pascal.)
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@emil omg
were they a young child at the time or did they mistake it for an over boiled egg yolk?
@FlockOfCats He was a child… at heart. We pulled it out to clean and for some dumb reason, put it in his mouth. He wouldn't be able to explain it, too. Just a dumb teenager act. His sister smacked the door, he jumped, involuntary muscle movement, down it goes.
Luckily for him it was recovered… organically. Without any medical help.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats *graps a fork to dislocate the keyboard keys to also clean them, when I am at it*
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@FlockOfCats He was a child… at heart. We pulled it out to clean and for some dumb reason, put it in his mouth. He wouldn't be able to explain it, too. Just a dumb teenager act. His sister smacked the door, he jumped, involuntary muscle movement, down it goes.
Luckily for him it was recovered… organically. Without any medical help.
@emil @FlockOfCats holy kopi luwak mouseball!
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats have cleaned, past tense?
Shoot, I still have a ball mouse. I just cleaned it yesterday!
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats Oh, that's what they meant.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats heh heh - he said mouse balls.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats those were the days
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️That could be its own instance, to be honest
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@mangotable @FlockOfCats yeah the hose thing is definitely Gen-X I think.
our boomer friends drank directly from the leaded petrol nozzle didn't they
@FlockOfCats @falcennial @mangotable We didn't have to - lead pipes led right to the hoses.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats mouse balls in soapy water was the future
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@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.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats What I hated about cleaning mouse balls is that it never seemed to help. It was still sticky and/or skippy afterwards.
