Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb

the_wiz@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It wasn’t too long ago that a USB mouse would store the divers on the mouse.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That was actually never the case. The default USB mouse driver comes with the OS. And also today any modern mouse will work just fine with the default USB mouse driver in the OS.

    What this abomination is is a kind of extended driver that allows the user to e.g. remap buttons on the mouse or control RGB lights. You know, anything but the actual basic functionality of the mouse.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re thinking of the Titan submersible accident, I think. But they ended up stored on a Logitech controller, not a mouse.

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