akhra

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  • &🍯she/her 🐲xie/xer 🦡e/em/es

wenchcoat system:
🍯 Akhra (or Melli to disambiguate), ratel.
🐲 Rhiannon, drangolin.
🦡 Lenestre, American badger.

unless tagged or otherwise obvious, assume 🍯🐲🦡 in chorus; even when that's not quite accurate, we will always be in consensus. address collectively as Akhra (she/her), or as wenchcoat (she/her or plural).

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Discord (mention cohost, I get spam follows)
@akhra
Discord server ostensibly for the Twitch channel but with Cohost in hospice y'know what let's just link it here
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wobblegong
@wobblegong

I decided years ago that since the conventional computer peripheral is called a mouse, trackballs are rats.


wobblegong
@wobblegong

I also decided years ago that rats are where it's at and that's all I'll use. A mediocre rat still has tons of advantages over mice, because mousepads are a scam by Big Computer Desk and I spent my formative years suffering technology that didn't work. If the surface is subtly wrong a mouse no longer honors your movements; a rat has no such problems and can be stopped only by debris falling into the optical sensors, which is as obvious as it is easy to troubleshoot/clean!

I'm not gonna say I'm objectively right or anything– I like there being options so people can pick what meets their needs! But I am a fan of the rat. I love the rat. I honor the rat.


multioculate
@multioculate
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this user has built 2 M570 rats out of 4 broken M570 rats but mostly uses an elecom g-pro (gamer rat) these days

akhra
@akhra

(it was called the Turbo Mouse back then, mechanical, two buttons and no ring; I fell in love with it playing Descent at a gaming café and never looked back)


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in reply to @wobblegong's post:

in reply to @wobblegong's post:

50% of the reason I use a trackball rat, is because I often have cats laying on my arm, and it's hard to use a mouse like that.

The other 50% is because I like to use the computer while laying down, and it's hard to use a mouse like that

I've got a logi m575 thumb-ball rat I use with my laptop on the couch in the living room as a more-ergonomic alternative to the (also very nice) trackpad the thing has. It's hard to use a mouse on a sofa! Won't move smoothly on the upholstery!

in reply to @akhra's post:

There's a bit of specific history here:

It used to be that Turbo Mouse was Kensington's trackball for Apple computers (even pre-Macintosh: the first Turbo Mouse trackballs were for the Apple II). Once ADB got established, Turbo Mouse models were ADB.

Expert Mouse was the line for IBM-compatible PCs. Dunno whether there were serial models, but certainly once PS/2 ports got established, Expert Mouse models were PS/2.

They have had other trackball models, including the Orbit, but the Turbo/Expert Mouse were the ones that were complete twins of each other except for the connection to the computer.

Then USB happened and that distinction went poof. The Expert Mouse with the scroll ring has been the Turbo/Expert Mouse model for both Macs and PCs ever since.

I figured that was the eventual distinction but I could swear my first one was a Turbo Mouse on PC, way back in the two-button days. I remember it looking like the Mac model (which I had also encountered at a job), with that light gray they were doing for a while after everyone got tired of beige.