Comment on Avocado
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
that looks like the ancient mouse that uses ball for cursor movement.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Tailz@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw this. Those mice were a pain. I had to take the ball out from the socket and get rid of dust and debris so many times so it would work normally
nomy@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
It was so disgusting digging all the gunk out with a toothpick, cotton swabs, and alcohol.
Optical mice were such a huge improvement everyone I knew (except the weird trackball guy) switched as soon as they became available and never looked back.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The first optical mice absolutely sucked compared to trackballs.
Fortunately, that period did not last long.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
First optical mouse I used was interning at a university engineering department in 1993. It had a special metal mousepad with a grid on it, and it worked pretty well as I recall.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s vintage, thank you
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They first tried using avocado pits, but those are a little too uneven, so they went with cooked egg yolks instead.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Cursed ball mouse that tastes like clean penis
ch00f@lemmy.world 6 days ago
cleanpenis.fart