griibor , vor 16 Tagen

@foone tracking is stored in the ball(s).

DiomadcaT , vor 17 Tagen

@foone i had to maintain that reflex because i keep ending up with cat hair in it

martijn , vor 19 Tagen

@foone Heh. I need to clean my trackball anyways. The tracking is optical but the bearings do get smudgy and mess with the rolling resistance.

X31Andy , vor 19 Tagen

@foone cleaning the mouse poop from the rollers was a regular task :)

BTowersCoding , vor 19 Tagen

@foone my mouse has never quite tracked well ever since I got cats

kaleissin , vor 19 Tagen

@foone We have shitty scrollwheels though

mattgrayyes , vor 19 Tagen

@foone I do that still too!

jpsays , vor 19 Tagen

@mattgrayyes @foone While I’ve cleaned them many times in my life, that’s no longer second nature. However, it probably should have been. I keep having mouse troubles where it can take minutes before I realize that lint has gotten stuck in the led window of the mouse, causing unreliable operation. Doh.

oblomov , vor 19 Tagen

@foone TBF, it wouldn't really be surprising of you still use a ball mouse in 2024

lachlan , vor 19 Tagen

@foone Get the saucepan going to boil a new egg yolk?

Farbs , vor 19 Tagen

@foone I refuse to believe that Foone Turing doesn't regularly use a ball mouse.

foone OP , vor 19 Tagen

@Farbs semi-regularly. once a month or so, more if I'm still working on my NT4 project

Farbs , vor 19 Tagen

@foone phew

stephen , vor 19 Tagen

@foone I find myself flipping my wireless mouse over and turning it off and on from time to time to reset the connection will perform a similar “cleaning” effect. Modern problems, modern solutions and all that, but I swear, sometimes they are still rooted in the past.

joby , vor 19 Tagen

@foone I flip my optical mouse over all the time if it isn't tracking right, to check for cat hairs.

PJ_Evans , vor 19 Tagen

@foone
I used to have to clean crud out of my trackball, when I could still get wired trackballs that I liked.

deetwenty , vor 19 Tagen

@foone from experience I can tell that dust can make an optical mouse loose tracking, though cleaning that is a lot easier than cleaning a ball mouse

swelljoe , vor 19 Tagen

@foone I recently switched to a trackball. The first time it got weird because of dust and stuff mucking it up it took me an embarrassingly long time to think to clean the...umm...nest? whatever you call where the ball sits.

kinsale42 , vor 19 Tagen

@foone at my house, in present day, that would mean there's a massive wad of cat floof I need to clean out from blocking the laser :D

liquor_american , vor 19 Tagen

@foone 🧐

jacquiharper , vor 19 Tagen

@foone Good way to kill 20 minutes, scraping gunk off the little wheels ..

zhenech , vor 19 Tagen

@foone is it completely wrong tho? At least mine often catch a hair or something and that disturbs the laser while lasering 🤷‍♀️

justinto , vor 19 Tagen

@foone same, about twice a day