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!
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!
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
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.
Haha, I keep telling my wife I’m gonna get back at her some day and steal something but all her good things came from me! She’s even started saying she likes the sound of my mechanical keyboard so going to have to replace that soon I feel.
I tell Grandma that I will get even with her before I die. She tells me I’m going to live forever then.
Grandma’s booty, love it
That phrasing, dude…
I said what I said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.)
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.
Same.
You can also coordinate your fingerless gloves with your knee-high rainbow programmer socks for extra fashion points.
What’s a mousepad?
Seriously, gave those up years 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).
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.
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.
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…).