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I knew someone in college that swore that was the best mouse. I can understand a track ball to use your hand but a thumb track ball?! He’d play Morrowind all day. Always jumping.
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praise the lord it comes in wired
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Jun 24, 2022 02:03
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Ritz On Toppa Ritz posted:I knew someone in college that swore that was the best mouse. its not a thumb trackball, your thumb sits at the scroll wheel there, your index & middle finger on the ball and your other two on the other buttons
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Jun 24, 2022 02:06
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speaking of funy old tech poo poo, i still maintain the logitech trackman marble fx is the best trackball formfactor
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Jun 24, 2022 02:08
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i gotta say, i feel like a trackball is one of those things where being wireless doesn't really add anything except for annoyance
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Jun 24, 2022 02:38
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Jabor posted:i gotta say, i feel like a trackball is one of those things where being wireless doesn't really add anything except for annoyance its good, actually, because i can plug in the dongle into the KVM and put the trackball in a drawer while i'm not using it
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Jun 24, 2022 02:43
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tk posted:Oh if we’re talking about mouses I have to recommend the best mouse: i have an evoluent verticalmouse, is this the same deal? e: also i use the left-handed version
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Jun 24, 2022 02:43
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i had a wireless trackball that my friend gave me but the dongle thing would drop out pretty easily, and bluetooth is annoying a f to share between multiple machines on a switch so i bought the wired version then it would gently caress up every so often, making me un/replug it in. so i complained at kensington and they sent me a new one it still does it, but less often. idk if it's a hardware thing or a driver thing but i love my giant ball
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Jun 24, 2022 03:25
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Jabor posted:i gotta say, i feel like a trackball is one of those things where being wireless doesn't really add anything except for annoyance i guess you can use it on the couch or somewhere else without a flat surface for a mouse
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Jun 24, 2022 05:48
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The most likely place to see trackballs in 2022 is the military. They are more robust than mice in several ways.
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Achmed Jones posted:join me as a trackball haver rotor rotor posted:i've got an elecom and it's good, i swap between em every now & then to keep the RSI at bay  i like my deft pro. i remapped a few buttons to left and right click for comfort and a double click that has been so usefulrotor posted:speaking of funy old tech poo poo, i still maintain the logitech trackman marble fx is the best trackball formfactor the trackman cordless was my previous trackball and logitech just had such a knack for making a really good trackball, then discontinuing it. the cordless aspect was totally meaningless, since the unique receiver needed to be inches away, and it was a chunky puck, unlike their other usb sticks Jabor posted:i gotta say, i feel like a trackball is one of those things where being wireless doesn't really add anything except for annoyance since the pro does wired/bt/receiver i can get a three devices on a toggle. wired is best, but it makes multi-device pairing easy
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Jun 24, 2022 06:50
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Netbooks
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I have a Kensington track ball from the nineties. it’s adb. and has its own adb to usb dongle!
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Jun 25, 2022 02:58
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adb yeah you know me
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cheque_some posted:Netbooks these little things were a lot of fun for 2009-2011. I could travel with it, it was powerful enough to play Altitude, and it was my first couchputer Then I got an MBA 
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discrete MMUs like instead of having an MMU in the CPU itself, there’s discrete logic between the CPU and its memory and peripherals—at first truly discrete logic, a pile of 7400-series logic plus very fast SRAM—to do address comparison and substitution to enable mapping, protection, and segmenting or paging this really came to the fore as companies started building minicomputer-like systems with the 68000; there was no MMU and the CPU didn’t support instruction resumption upon a bus error, but Apollo, Stanford/Sun, Apple, Alpha Micro, Hewlett-Packard, etc. didn’t let that hold them back from building interrupt-based MMUs that enabled segment mapping and protection by the time the 68010 was announced with the 68451 MMU, many of the companies that would have used the latter had already consolidated their MMU designs into PALs and even custom VLSI so Motorola had few customers, which is why they’re hard to come by in the wild today heck, Sun, Apollo, and Hewlett-Packard (and probably others) didn’t even use the 68851 MMU that was announced with the 68020; instead they just used enhanced versions of their existing MMU designs, which they’d switched from segmented to paging during the 68010 era (since it supports instruction resumption on bus error) one of the advantages of the discrete MMUs is that they didn’t just sit in between the CPU and the rest of the system, they could also do mapping for I/O operations, something that today we recognize as the purpose of an IOMMU this means, perversely, that a Sun-3/60 (68020 with discrete MMU) is in a certain sense “more secure” than a Sun-3/80 (68030 with built-in MMU), because on the former I/O goes through the same translation and protection mechanisms as all other memory accesses. sadly, I don’t know whether that was leveraged, since in that era there wasn’t hot-plug external I/O that could do DMA to worry about, and translation systems often added an extra clock cycle to memory accesses (which is why lots of these systems also added instruction and data cache)
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oh yeah, discrete CPUs too everyone who’s had a real CS or EE education has implemented a simple CPU using discrete logic, whether in simulation or on a breadboard, as a “this is the way it used to work” thing that people assume was left to 70s minicomputers but they lived well into the 1980s—and not just for minicomputers! in probably the best example, Apollo shipped a fully 32-bit 68K implementation before Motorola see, the 68000 instruction set and registers are 32-bit, but the ALU and data paths are all 16-bit, and the address bus is 24-bit so Apollo took the 68000 instruction & register set and built a a fully 32-bit bit-slice, microcoded implementation to use in their highest end workstations before the 68020 was available as samples evidently Motorola was OK with this; I assume Apollo paid a license fee per CPU, and/or promised to use the 68020 when it did become available—they actually shipped these systems concurrently with the 68020 systems for a while since they were so fast
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a real education
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i just dont find computers these days to be funy
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Jun 26, 2022 04:05
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The printer-carrier.
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rotor posted:i just dont find computers these days to be funy
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The printer-carrier. If you see granos, call the cops
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The printer-carrier. Is that a real thing or are you referencing the goon who carried an inkjet 5 miles through desert heat in the hopes of a hug he wouldn't get
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Forums Medic posted:Is that a real thing or are you referencing the goon who carried an inkjet 5 miles through desert heat in the hopes of a hug he wouldn't get yes
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Forums Medic posted:Is that a real thing or are you referencing the goon who carried an inkjet 5 miles through desert heat in the hopes of a hug he wouldn't get I desperately need more info on this one
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Volmarias posted:I desperately need more info on this one you were around to see it live: https://www.somethingawful.com/great-goon-database/great-goon-best/3/
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Forums Medic posted:Is that a real thing or are you referencing the goon who carried an inkjet 5 miles through desert heat in the hopes of a hug he wouldn't get Are you saying that wasn't real?
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Wait is this somehow different from the goon who carried a printer to a girls place and set up a meterpreter listener or some poo poo to access the webcam later and got busted because of the webcam access light? I don’t have time to look up the full thing now. It was Granos, right?
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Fart Sandwiches posted:Wait is this somehow different from the goon who carried a printer to a girls place and set up a meterpreter listener or some poo poo to access the webcam later and got busted because of the webcam access light? I don’t have time to look up the full thing now. It was Granos, right? that was different.
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Fart Sandwiches posted:Wait is this somehow different from the goon who carried a printer to a girls place and set up a meterpreter listener or some poo poo to access the webcam later and got busted because of the webcam access light? I don’t have time to look up the full thing now. It was Granos, right? Wait is this somehow different from the goon who spied on their sister with a webcam?
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printer dude, instead of just printing something and giving it to her at school, carried printer a couple of miles in hot rear end weather only to have to sit an janitor the gal's computer while she made out with her boyfriend on the bed behind them. i seem to recall he thought about stealing her underwear when she stepped out of the room.
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he didn’t have the software on his computer, and printing to pdf wasn’t widely available
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also i think he died (unrelated to printers)
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yeah i'm pretty sure he suicided
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thank you for the corrections. i have amended my mental store of the printer guy to include lack of compatible software and the eventual suicide unrelated to printers.
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Jun 26, 2022 22:09
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Mr. Nice! posted:suicide unrelated to printers. i wouldn't say THAT
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borky was the printer carrier:Borky posted:A loose female acquaintance of mine calls me at 1:00am today and asks me if I could print something on the computer for her and bring it over in the afternoon. "Hey yeah sure sure, whatever you need I'll help you, I'm all yours," I tell her. She sends me this file and lo and behold I can't open it. It's made in Microsoft Publisher and I don't have that program so I begin panicing, trying to find this program or a way to print the file. Scouring the internet yields no results and I do my usual pacing in my room. granos was the mega creep, see his saclopedia article
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