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This is what 11 years of usage to to a mouse. RIP my baby, hello baby's brother (I bought it somewhere 2014 after I fell in love with the first one) (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had a mouse where one was vertical and the other horizontal, but I seem to think the horizontal scroll was oriented horizontally. Having googled the mouse in the picture, it says one is programmable and suggests it starts with volume.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why wouldn't there just be a small trackball on the nose, wouldn't that be more practical?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Because you'd be constantly changing your volume up and down slightly while scrolling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

For navigating a great big thing that benefits from two axis scrolling? Yes. For literally anything else a scroll wheel might be used for, like swapping weapons in games? No. The clickyness of the average scroll wheel is actually pretty useful and can't really be applied to a trackball.