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

[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

[m3t00@catodon.rocks]

@FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp

so much fun to remove someone's mouse ball

[lautreg@pouet.chapril.org]

@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@fosstodon.org]

@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.

[gilester45@twit.social]

@FlockOfCats Ha! I don't remember ever washing the ball, but I regularly scraped the crud off the little rollers.

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@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

[lautreg@pouet.chapril.org]

@jannem @FlockOfCats
I understood that theses balls help when the dress are too light.

[perrin42@mastodon.social]

@FlockOfCats

I have done this. I agree with your conclusion.

[kev@mcr.wtf]

@FlockOfCats @Rhube I worked in a college. We had to glue ours closed or they got stolen!

[accordionbruce@mastodon.social]

@RachelThornSub @pussreboots @jamesrg @FlockOfCats
My jr high typing class had two electric typewriters that only the best students were allowed to use

We were so jealous. I never got to touch them

Never got to use a mouse until college

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@frang
American mice have bigger balls.
@FlockOfCats

[bumblefish@mastodon.scot]

@zillion @FlockOfCats I voted yes because I thought you meant the plastic ball that the classroom mouse used to run around and pee in.

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@jannem
Record the sound and you have invented a new type of true random number generator that is more affordable than a Lavarand.
@lautreg @FlockOfCats

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

@zillion @FlockOfCats not in the last few years