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raddevus wrote: I have some trackball mice (logitech) have lasted 30 years of daily use. It's crazy!
Have you often had to do a Replacement of Mouse Balls[^]
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: Have you often had to do a Replacement of Mouse Balls[^]
I am a software dev / "engineer" so I do not understand jokes, so I will now answer this question seriously.
I use trackballs and my balls stay clean so I can happily report that my balls have lasted for a very long time. 
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Do you do like me and pop them in your mouth to clean them?
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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That's cool. I might've been in those discussions. I sure eat mice. But I bet I use them enough that UL could rent me as durability test equipment.
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Recently, I may have replaced the need for licensing a bit of software with DIY/FOSS because it just didn't make sense to me the cost for what it does.
This guy builds a mouse because the manufacturers seem to suck.
AI is supposed to empower people to do things.
Maybe a silver lining is that quality:price improves because it must?
A competitor can chatgpt+yt how to manufacture mice and probably start to put you out of business almost literally overnight.
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At least he didn't have to live through the era of the weekly de-fluff of mouse balls.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I started such a thread not too long ago. If it's not one of the buttons, it's the scrollwheel, or the actual tracker (movement along the X/Y axis).
Given his time investment...I think I'll stick with buying more. Maybe try a batch of different models, and see which lasts the longest.
Lately it's been my gaming mouse that's started acting up, noticeably.
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Anyone else having problems with CP today ( I know OG has) I keep getting
Unfortunately it seems that our error handling page has, ironically, an error. It's going to be one of those days
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes, I've had the "error page error" page, complete with disturbing 3D-rendered Bob, several times so far this morning.
Looks like Chris picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue[^]! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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He's(Bob not Chris) holding a wrench in one hand and what appears to be a beer in the other.
Drinking on the job...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 18hrs ago.
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It's called the Ballmer Peak
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yes, me too - seems to right itself after a couple of refreshes
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Yes, I was about to post in the Bugs and Sugs forum about that.
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Yup, had that aswell.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
MessageBox.Show(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature)
? $"This is my signature:{Environment.NewLine}{_signature}": "404-Signature not found");
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On the plus side, it did reduce the amount of spam CP catches every day.
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One of the servers went belly-up this morning. A quick talking to and it's all good again.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is it a Windows server Chris ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hamster RTOS.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Sigh.
Yes.
If there was a nice migration from webforms to Blazor we'd be on Linux. But...no. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks
It is 10:30 AM here in Arizona 5/2/24
NO CP in my in box I never panic with this site
always a reliable explanation
Thanks for my daily dose of Tech News and Views from neat people
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not now 10:37 CDT
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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So I need VS2015. I have a project using it on a secure server, and I need to replicate the dev environment. I do my search, I login, I get to the "Your Downloads and Product Keys". It shows me this:
"Visual Studio Community 2015 Not available 6/27/2016"
If it's not available, why prick tease me? And this is the company assuring me that all of the updates they push out are for security. Right.... then I get an ad "inclusion is innovation." Well that's useful - not.
Wow, so, I despise edge. Trying to download opera - the file gets dumped to "operasetup.exe isn't commonly downloaded..." and edge renames it to something bogus. I have to rename it to a .exe to get it to install. What drivel.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Interesting - opera has no issue finding the download.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: edge renames it to something bogus
Seems they broke something.
The download PDF option does work either, downloads a 0 byte htm.
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