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[#] Wed Jun 29 2022 17:19:57 EDT from Nurb432

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Actually it was yesterday..

I dont know how long i have been using Chromebooks now, but its been a LONG time... And i just realized that you dont have to physically click the track pad to register a click.. wtf..when did this happen?



[#] Thu Jun 30 2022 14:54:08 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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Wed Jun 29 2022 17:19:57 EDT from Nurb432

Actually it was yesterday..

I dont know how long i have been using Chromebooks now, but its been a LONG time... And i just realized that you dont have to physically click the track pad to register a click.. wtf..when did this happen?



Tap-to-click has been a thing for at least a couple decades.



[#] Thu Jun 30 2022 18:01:16 EDT from Nurb432

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I tried it on my office macbook. .Nothin  ( Linux, not osx )

"generic" x86 Linux laptop. Nothin. 

Just seems to be my 2 'flip' Chromebooks so far.

Will try my ARM Linux laptop and my 2 personal macbooks ( Linux on both ) this weekend.



[#] Sat Jul 02 2022 10:08:16 EDT from Nurb432

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Reading more, its not normally 'enabled' and depending on OS and windowing system, will decide what hoops you jump thru.

Going to have to try it however, as one of the reasons i hate track pads the is the click, it always moves the damned mouse cursor on me.   But this touch-to-click.. does not.



[#] Mon Jul 04 2022 10:06:31 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Or you could just bring along a mouse :)

Today ... ok not today, but two weeks ago ... I learned that wired and wireless mice have switched places. Wired mice are now the premium offering and every cheap mouse is wireless. At least in retail that's the case, anyway.

[#] Mon Jul 04 2022 10:28:43 EDT from Nurb432

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I do when i can, but sometimes its not overly convenient to whip one out when you are out and about from your home base.

( another reason i never noticed i bet.. )

 

I have mixed feelings about wireless mice. GOOD ones are decent. bad ones, are dreadful 

Mon Jul 04 2022 10:06:31 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Or you could just bring along a mouse :)

Today ... ok not today, but two weeks ago ... I learned that wired and wireless mice have switched places. Wired mice are now the premium offering and every cheap mouse is wireless. At least in retail that's the case, anyway.

 



[#] Sat Jul 09 2022 06:00:32 EDT from darknetuser

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2022-07-04 10:28 from Nurb432
I do when i can, but sometimes its not overly convenient to whip one

out when you are out and about from your home base.

( another reason i never noticed i bet.. )

 

I have mixed feelings about wireless mice. GOOD ones are decent. bad

ones, are dreadful 

I don't like to take any chances. I go wired as often as possible. If you do videogames in modern consoles, you know that running out of batteries in your wireless controller destroys your gaming night.


[#] Sat Jul 09 2022 07:43:31 EDT from Nurb432

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Im safe from that :)

Sat Jul 09 2022 06:00:32 AM EDT from darknetuser
 If you do videogames in modern consoles, you know that running out of batteries in your wireless controller destroys your gaming night.

 



[#] Fri Aug 12 2022 09:15:03 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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you do videogames in modern consoles, you know that running out of
batteries in your wireless controller destroys your gaming night.

And that's what I found when I went to the computer store ... wired mice tend to be "gaming mice" with big chonky controls and multicolor LEDs and brand names like "Mega Death Blaster 9000". I just want to point at things and not change batteries.

In the end I selected a simple Logitech wireless that feels good in my hand and has a blue and black color scheme that matches my keyboard. It doesn't have a zillion buttons but it does have the forward/backward buttons on the side, to which I've grown accustomed.

[#] Sat Aug 13 2022 13:42:28 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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Fri Aug 12 2022 09:15:03 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
And that's what I found when I went to the computer store ... wired mice tend to be "gaming mice" with big chonky controls and multicolor LEDs and brand names like "Mega Death Blaster 9000". I just want to point at things and not change batteries.

In the end I selected a simple Logitech wireless that feels good in my hand and has a blue and black color scheme that matches my keyboard. It doesn't have a zillion buttons but it does have the forward/backward buttons on the side, to which I've grown accustomed.

My mousie is a SteelSeries Rival 710.  Costed me $100.  Is good mousie.  Not many frills.  Does have two DPI settings and a button to switch between them, which is useful at times.  1200 DPI for pixel-purrfect operations, 2400 DPI for everything else.  It also has a replaceable tail, because mousie tails seem to always fail at some point.



[#] Sat Aug 13 2022 14:42:52 EDT from Nurb432

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That alone is a great feature...  That should have been standard from day one.

Sat Aug 13 2022 01:42:28 PM EDT from LadySerenaKitty

 It also has a replaceable tail, because mousie tails seem to always fail at some point.



 



[#] Mon Oct 17 2022 19:41:28 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Speaking of mice, my house is full of them right now. I don't know why. We've lived here for eight years and there's been the occasional mouse but we've had more than I can count in the last month or so.

Sometimes we find them dead and dismantled thanks to the kitties, sometimes we find them alive and running around.

We can't figure out whether they're getting in, or if the kitties are bringing them in. Oh and last week there was a bird, that one had to have been escorted inside by a feline member of the household.

The fact that they're coming in so frequently and are often alive suggests that they are "getting in"

The fact that there are NO signs of mouse activity (scratching sounds inside the walls, trails of poop, etc) suggests that they are "being brought in"

I just can't figure this out.

[#] Mon Oct 17 2022 19:58:52 EDT from Nurb432

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That was like me last summer. 

Getting that bucket trap, and nearly daily trips to the park to release .. finally cleared it up



[#] Fri Oct 21 2022 06:58:40 EDT from darknetuser

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2022-10-17 19:41 from IGnatius T Foobar
Speaking of mice, my house is full of them right now. I don't know

why. We've lived here for eight years and there's been the occasional

mouse but we've had more than I can count in the last month or so.


Sometimes we find them dead and dismantled thanks to the kitties,

sometimes we find them alive and running around.

We can't figure out whether they're getting in, or if the kitties are

bringing them in. Oh and last week there was a bird, that one had to

have been escorted inside by a feline member of the household.


The fact that they're coming in so frequently and are often alive

suggests that they are "getting in"

The fact that there are NO
signs of mouse activity (scratching sounds
inside the walls, trails of poop, etc) suggests that they are "being

brought in"

I just can't figure this out.



Welcome to my world.

I don't mind mice in the barns. I welcome every mice and bird to nest in the barns. Horses love staring into newborn chicks to see what they are up to. It is when they get in the house when they start causing trouble. I had to repair some ugly damate to the electrical wiring of the house done by mice last year.

There is not much advice I can give beyond the obvious one. Place anything a mice would love to have as lunch in a secured place so mice don't have much of a reason to walk in. Have garbage, dog food, horse food etc. stored in containers. Then look for obvious infiltration poins to your house and seal them, so you get less mice in.

I once got a shack which suffered a bad infestation flooded by carbon monoxide. Not a solution I recommend.

I had a friend recommend me to keep a ferret at home. Mice are terrified by them and won't get in a house where one is present. The issue is that ferrets are every bit as destructive as a ravaging horde of mice, with the drawback that a ferret is to be treated as a pet...

[#] Fri Oct 21 2022 17:13:44 EDT from Nurb432

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Cat.  Ya know, they evolved along side us for this very purpose. 

Fri Oct 21 2022 06:58:40 AM EDT from darknetuser
I had a friend recommend me to keep a ferret at home. 

 



[#] Mon Oct 24 2022 13:58:55 EDT from darknetuser

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2022-10-21 17:13 from Nurb432
Cat.  Ya know, they evolved along side us for this very purpose. 
Fri Oct 21 2022 06:58:40 AM EDT from darknetuser

I had a friend recommend me to keep a ferret at home. 







 


I had cats when I was young. They were all lazy fucks and would not hunt if their lives depended on it. If you reduced their food ration they would go to the next house and bother the neighbourhoods for treats rather than hunt for mice.

[#] Mon Oct 24 2022 14:44:35 EDT from Nurb432

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Odd, i have had the exact opposite with my cats. Even my indoor cats who ware well fed and cared for, if they get to go out they bring home food to give us. Or if mice get in the house, its game on.

These days only certain ones go outside, if they will stay in the yard.  To risky to let them wander around here.  Just yesterday we were given a vole by one of the cats. Dropped it at the back door and walked in all proud. 



[#] Mon Oct 24 2022 16:11:51 EDT from LoanShark

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We can't figure out whether they're getting in, or if the kitties are

bringing them in. Oh and last week there was a bird, that one had to

have been escorted inside by a feline member of the household.

The cats will solve the problem.

Even if they caused it, they will (eventually, when they get bored) solve it.

[#] Mon Oct 24 2022 18:38:32 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Well yes, they *are* murdering, but if they're just bringing us presents I'd prefer if they'd just leave them on the front steps like other cats do. Did I mention there is the occasional bird? That can't be coming in on its own.

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