Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...

On Wed, 29 May 2024 08:08:07 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On 5/28/2024 1:35 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 
I've been late with this month's Completely Random And Pointless Poll.
So I won't take too long on the intro for this one. This time, let's
focus on your mouse. You know, that wiggly lil' plastic gadget beneath
your hand. Let's describe it!
 
Please answer the following question. My mouse is:
 

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As an additional question, wired or wireless?

It is a very important question, but I couldn't think of a way to add
it into the offered options without making things too wordy (and you
know how important it is to me to keep my comments brief and to the
point ;-)

I have an aversion to wireless as you have to have batteries which
increase the weight, and the inconvenience of the mouse working
intermittently when they get low until you replace them.  Or having a
rechargeable mouse where it doesn't work until it's charged a bit
possibly, and having the recharging port wear out.  It's been a long
time since I used a wireless mouse.

I use a wireless mouse and the battery swaps aren't that much of an
issue; it happens maybe twice a year? And until that point, my mouse
works flawlessly; it's not as if performance degrades as the batteries
get low. It's "today it's working, tomorrow it just doesn't, so time
to swap the batteries!"

Having said that, I completely understand why people prefer a wired
mouse; it's 'always on'. My mouse (a Logitech M-something, the label
has worn away ;-) seems to go into a 'power saving mode' if it isn't
in constant use, and sometimes takes a half-second to come back alive
before the cursor starts moving. It doesn't drop down to power-saving
mode that quickly but it's noticable when it happens. You need to give
the mouse that extra little jerk to tell it, 'hey! start moving!'.
During desktop use, it's not so much an issue (and, in fact, rarely
happens because I'm usually using it enough that it stays awake, but
there are some games where I don't touch the mouse for fifteen or
twenty minutes, and when I DO need the mouse, immediate response is
appreciated... and this mouse doesn't do that.

Still, it's just too comfortable for me to give up. And I really don't
want to wrangle with wires more than I have to. So I deal with it and
grumble incessently about a problem I know I could easily solve ;-)