Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...

On 29/05/2024 15:08, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

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.

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

I prefer a mouse mat for two main reasons. The first is that it dampens the noise of using the desktop directly and the real big one, I find having a wrist pad just more comfortable in use.
As you say though the days when you really needed one are long gone so I wonder how many people use them just out of habit.
If you have more money than sense you could always get one of these full sized LED one for several hundred pounds. Who on earth buys this stuff?