I put put dots on all my mice this morning. They all slide they are running on air bearings!

Shaking the mouse in KDE has never been easier!

  • wilt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    30·
    1 day ago

    You may wish to remove the original sliders, the extra height may cause the mouse to lift off prematurely.

    Good job though!

    • Bluewing@lemmy.worldOP
      91·
      1 day ago

      So, I might need to add weight to prevent lift off? These dots are really thin. Like they dang near missed the whole dot tree when they sliced it down thin.

      • wilt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        No weight needed, you have added spacers to your mouse and increased the distance the sensor is from the table when in use, when the sensor is lifted off and doesn’t have contact it stops mouse movement input.

        If you add height your mouse may stutter in use because it thinks it has lifted off but still on the table.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zone
        3·
        1 day ago

        If you buy PTFE skates fit for your mouse (or cut to the sizes for your mouse) and peel the old ones off, you won’t get cat hair buildup and the mouse will be like new

        • Bluewing@lemmy.worldOP
          231·
          1 day ago

          I’mma still get cat hair on them. Like death and taxes, cat hair is inevitable everywhere.

  • Cort@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

    Did you know you can get a whole new set of skates on Amazon? Like ones that are cut to the right size?

    • Bluewing@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 hours ago

      I wasn’t aware you could even get these dots. I came across them by accident and though for the $5 for 100 of these dots I would try them. These work well enough I don’t think I need to change them.

  • BlackVenom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Ah the m705

    This was once a beautiful mouse made of quality materials.

    You have the bottom of the barrel, so far.

    You see it once had quality skates that slid with ease. Not yours, no they replaced it with something slippier than grip tape.

    Every button had a satisfying click, the mouse had weight, the scroll wheel was metal and precise in every movement.

    Oh and the thumb pad had a button built in.

    Not yours. No you have what is only a few more wrings from being concentrated enshitification in mouse form.

    Logitech thanks you for your purchase.

    (Fuck Logitech for the bait and switch enshitification over this last 20yr)

    Anyone have a recommendation for a long lasting battery in a wireless mouse with side buttons? Preferably not Logitech.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      1·
      16 hours ago

      I was kinda lucky my g900 left click switch started failing because I noticed that the battery was swelling when I opened it up to fix it.

    • BideoGameEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I bought a Pulsar Xlite V2 like three years ago and it’s still doing awesome. It sure doesn’t have metal or anything other than plastic on it but I think it still feels great in the hand.

      Side note, battery life is great. Idk how long it lasts but I forget to charge most of my things and it’s rarely been an issue.

  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
    5·
    1 day ago

    But how’s your mousepad?

    Sincerely, A guy with no mousepad because his wife and friends all take a shining to his so he can’t keep them on his desk long enough to use one

    • Bluewing@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 day ago

      I don’t have a mouse pad. Just that green plastic shelf/desk protector that Grandma rummaged up for me in her random pile of plunder. My daughters used to steal my mouse pads back when they were still at home and in school.

      I did get even with them though. I would buy Hersey bars and leave them on my desk and never eat them. Drove them crazy.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      I use a polycarbonate ‘pad’ (Amazon link).

      It’s incredibly thin (.5mm) and more than large enough even if you play low DPI/eSports. Most importantly, for your situation, is that it is adhesive backed… so it sticks to your desk and isn’t so easy to steal. It’s got a light matte texture which I only notice when my mouse needs new feet. If you’re using PTFE dots like OP it’ll be glass smooth. Since it’s so thin it doesn’t irritate my wrist like some of the cloth pads with the heavily stitched edges.

      The downsides that I’ve noticed are 1. Adhesive backing isn’t for every surface or portable so make sure you know where you want it before you apply it. 2. After 3 years of gaming the middle area is starting to become polished… while it makes the pad incredibly smooth it can sometimes cause tracking errors. (A bit of light sandpapering introduces enough surface defects to fix this) and 3. Since it’s not cloth or absorbent in any way it can build up dust/skin oil residue. It’s very easy to clean though (being polycarbonate it’s resistant to essentially anything you would want to clean it with) and, as a second option, fingerless arm sleeves/“gaming gloves” eliminates the skin oil issue (and is a bit more comfortable if your pinkie drags when using your mouse.)

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 day ago

        I’ve got massive hands and so pinky/thumb drag is a real big issue. You make a tempting suggestion I’m gonna look into.

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          Same.

          You can also coordinate your fingerless gloves with your knee-high rainbow programmer socks for extra fashion points.

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 day ago

        I could never. Dialing in just the right friction through your skates and mousepad and getting the perfect stopping power for a flick shot. There’s just nothing else like it when I do game (which is almost never these days now. I just hate to admit it to myself I don’t need all that while scrolling code all day).

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          which is almost never these days now. I just hate to admit it to myself I don’t need all that while scrolling code all day

          As a fellow code scroller and gadget tinkerer… you just need to move on to the mechanical keyboards obsession.

          Split keyboard, ortholinear key layout, mechanical key switches, multiple thumb keys (my thumbs are more capable than a single space bar!!), hardware macros, programmable individually addressable RGBs so your desk can look like rainbow vomit when you’re not using it. Optional attached trackball/trackpad so you can live the ‘I’m never taking my hands off the keyboard’ life without becoming a vim/emacs person.

          ex: https://www.zsa.io/voyager or if you want a good YT video (the one that sold me on it): Ben Vallack on YT, a good source for gadget reviews for mature (read: in funds) nerds.

          • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
            2·
            1 day ago

            Funny you should mention keyboards. My wife has started hinting she’s going to steal mine soon (basic ducky, nothing fancy) because she likes the click clack. A split ortho tkl is exactly where I’m leaning to replace it when she does go “yoink”. I’ll take a look at the voyager, thanks.

            She’s even got her eye on a psyduck key cap set I think. Maybe I should just pull the trigger and snag those for our anniversary for her and hand it over.

            • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 day ago

              ZSA has a few variants that are worth looking. It takes a bit to adjust, be prepared to spend a week or two typing slow and needing a cheatsheet to know which layer contains which key/function.

              There’s also a thriving market for custom built keyboards on Etsy. Corne and Sofle layouts are popular and if you’re feeling extra DIY you can just buy the boards/switches/controller/case individually and solder them together. The controllers are typically using QMK or ZMK firmware and there’s a whole sub-community of fellow nerds so you’ll find plenty of guides/git repos/configs to help you along.

              I went with the ZSA keyboard first, they’ve done all of the hard work for you (and their layout creation tool is very nice). Now that I’m familiar with the ecosystem/community I’ll probably build my next one so I can make a custom sized/sculpted layout (gotta justify this 3D printer somehow…).

  • LoreSoong@startrek.websiteEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    You can buy the pads on the bottom of the mouse to replace them, theyre called skates or feet, look up m705 mouse skates on amazon theyre usually less than 10$, cool solution though

    • Bluewing@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      1 day ago

      That’s where I got these. I just bought cheap round ones. You can’t see them anyway when you are using the mouse.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        They’re fine, the mouse skates move the sensor a tiny bit closer to the surface which hardly matters unless you’re playing eSports or similar.

        Picking up the mouse to reposition it builds up a lot of muscle memory, if your mouse is suddenly 2mm higher than you may ‘lose contact’ with the surface a few ms earlier than you expect when moving the mouse. But we all know that the KDE mouse shaker game doesn’t require this.