and Windows1 still doesn't fucking have a built-in "oh your wireless mouse/trackball battery is almost out of juice" notification for their default HID-compliant mouse profile, so every time, it's A Surprise™️, usually interrupting my flow.
No, I will not fucking install twentington gigs of manufacturer bloatware with 5 different full Electron copies that might make other HIDs do a dance and light up like a fucking rave For The Gamers™️ — and also might tell me what the state of my boring, utilitarian hardware is, if I'm supremely lucky.
Why is there no standard API for this that all manufacturers must implement by now?
(I know the answer. It's Capitalism again.)
1: I've seen various *nix GUIs at least have some kind of indicator