Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Wed, 29 May 2024 03:50:49 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
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Frankly mousepad is if anything more important.

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Shhhh! Don't give away next week's CRAP Poll! ;-)

Oops.  :)

Maybe it's just me -or the average mice I use- but I've never really
seen/felt much advantage from mouse pads. Or rather, not from a mouse
pad over an average surface (there are times when a mouse pad is
absolutely necessary because the table you're on is just so shitty
that the mouse can't pick up anything, but in that case a piece of
paper would work just as well).

The 3M Precise Mousing Surface was a godsend back in the ball mice days,
it was designed as a sheet of peaks and valleys, the ball rolled on the
peaks and the cruft that always ended up on the pad (dust, skin cells,
whatever,) fell into the valleys.

I kept using it into the led mouse times because it was ultra thin, and
they tracked well on it.   I'd place it where I wanted, then duct tape
it down, and it would be higher than the regular desk top by ~1mm, so
mostly unnoticeable.

One of the later replacements, I could not get just the thin pad, they'd
glued it to a thicker standard old fabric pad with an attached wrist
rest - it was so obtrusive.
Cut off the wrist rest, peeled the thin pad off the back and taped it
down and all was good for another 5-6 years.

I usually mouse with my wrist resting on the desk surface, and sliding
it around with thumb and ring finger.  The thicker pads really made that
awkward.

My current 'mousepad' is a 50-year old hand-made cutting board (you
know, for slicing veggies and whatnot) I inherited from a relative.
Since I already had a very nice cutting board in the kitchen, I had to
find some use for this battered piece of wood (it's been in the family
so long, and has hand-written notes on it from my uncle, who made the
thing). Turns out, it's /just/ the right size to be used as a mousing
surface. And I'm sure all those scrapes and knife-cuts make it a lot
easier for the mouse to 'see' where it's going. ;-P

That sounds a lot thicker than I would like to use

Xocyll