Re: Too much time on their hands!

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:08:32 +0000, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

On 17/03/2025 15:05, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:25:29 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
 

I stumbled on a nice little "tin" that I figured would be
great to repurpose.  Maybe store a selection of OTC medications
in it to keep on-hand, in the car?  It contained some round,
metallic "weights", carefully organized to suggest value:
    <https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LvEAAOSwIXlkH5k2/s-l1600.webp>
Chasing down the Logitech branding, it appears these are
used to alter the *weight* (feel) of a mouse:
    <https://www.ebay.com/itm/388072568821>

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I still remember the good old days (early 80's) when the Swiss firm
Logitech started out by marketing the ETH Zurich Modula2 compiler and
bespoke word processing software. "Logiciel" being software in French.
(French language police would not allow the nasty English word)
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Long before they started making any hardware. The mouse was an
unexpected consumer success when Windows took the world by storm!
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Sheesh!  Do these guys (PC gamers) have that much time/money
to spare that they are concerned with how *heavy* their
mouse feels?  Prior to the development of this mouse,
were gamers busily *taping* COINS and other masses onto
their mice just to improve their score??  Is the mouse's
mass that critical to its use?
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[Shouldn't there also be a huge selection of available
COLORS, shapes, etc.???]
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<rolls eyes>
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OTOH, it gives me something else to consider in developing a
universal UI!

 
My PCs were purchased my our IT consultants. They have insane gaming
GPUs and weigh 42 pounds each, and are almost impossible to carry.

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You need to eat more shredded wheat!

I'm hardly a body builder, but the boxes have nothing to grab, and
have doors and filters that slide around. One has to rig them with
ropes or straps to move them around. Sitting on a carpeted floor, they
may as well be welded down.

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Nothing that I do (Spice, PCB layout, twirling SolidWorks models
around) needs that. I'm planning to dump them and get some nice little
Dells.
 
Gaming seems to be an addictive thing like TikTok or fentanyl. Natural
selection should kick in on those.

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Gaming machines can be decent general purpose machines if you delete the
graphics card entirely. Doing that prevents you from running most AI
codes and various gofaster GPU based parallel processing libraries.
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I do buy expensive (over $20!) laser mice because they work on Ikea
varnish.
 
The Pi400 does come with a cute red and white mouse.

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Unless you do a lot of video editing or 3D rendering the GPU built into
the modern Intel chips is entirely adequate for 2D business graphics.

I wish they would help with Spice. Yesterday we were running a pretty
simple power supply sim at around 100 us/s. It takes many minutes to
settle out, and it's hard to learn with such delayed feedback.