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

[drewnaylor@mastodon.online]

@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).

[old_angry_queer@girlcock.club]

@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.

[swope@mstdn.plus]

@FlockOfCats
You can't doomscroll if your mouse doesn't have a scroll wheel.

[Temple Tapping Meme]

[flockofcats@famichiki.jp]

@vger

I was there, Gandalf….

[vger@gts.necronomi.co]

@FlockOfCats https://gts.necronomi.co/@vger/statuses/01M22B71DGH3VYY05538MYJG21

[gerardthornley@hachyderm.io]

@FlockOfCats This is obviously a joke - mice are flexible enough to clean their own balls.

[me@social.jlamothe.net]

@cy @FlockOfCats That's the way I've always done it.

[workshopshed@mastodon.scot]

@jamesrg @RachelThornSub @pussreboots @FlockOfCats and out of Acorn grew ARM

https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-official-history

[workshopshed@mastodon.scot]

@nazokiyoubinbou @FlockOfCats ah yes, cleaning the rollers using the stalk from the lid of a BIC Biro

[thygrrr@tiggi.es]

@FlockOfCats it's ironic many have, to this day, not learned to clean their balls

[eq@mas.to]

@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?

https://wintergatan.net/

[3nt3@chaos.social]

@FlockOfCats smh smh smh

[turi@mas.to]

@FlockOfCats Wait, I still do that... With my trackball, that is. And it is more lint removal than ball cleaning. ️

[rob_l@mas.to]

@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.

[jbqueru@floss.social]

@FlockOfCats ... or who have used computers before mice.

[gmarcosanti@mastodon.uno]

@FlockOfCats
Did you know?

In Australia to open the lid for ball holder you had to turn it clockwise, opposite as depicted.

[diegor@social.gl-como.it]

@FlockOfCats @swope When I was young we used pgup and pgdn! Now kid get off my lawn.

[cluelesstoshika@famichiki.jp]

@alterelefant @kilroy_was_here @zillion @FlockOfCats

When the mouse pointer is not moving on the screen, do you

[kayla@gts.eilhart.cz]

@FlockOfCats some of us still have those at home!

[sibrosan@mastodon.social]

@RachelThornSub @pussreboots @jamesrg @FlockOfCats

My university had a DEC PDP-10 which also didn't come with a mouse