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Every now and then (daily for me!) it's necessary to clean the gunk off the bottom of the mouse to get it sliding again. Usually in haste we turn it over and scrape off the crud with the edge of a credit card, but while holding it upside down it''s just about impossible to not push buttons or spin the
roller, sometimes with disastrous consequences to the work on the screen. So let's have a form fitting cradle that will hold it in such a way that no spurious commands are invoked and clean away. A plus would be a database of mouse profiles that could be drawn upon to print cradles to fit.
Whatever the name is of the brass (copper?) mouse holder
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Prior Art-ish [not_morrison_rm, Dec 15 2018]
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<Decides that speculating on the exact nature of [Steamboat]'s working environment is unwise/> |
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Can the mouse not be unplugged from the ordinater whilst it
is cleaned? |
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Ah, you're clearly thinking of the old days when mice had to
be powered by batteries. Nowadays, you can get ones that
take power from the USB socket, saving all the faff. |
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I find that daily baths are beneficial. |
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Umm, does it not have an "Off" switch, or a plug that can be
unplugged during cleaning, or clean it while the whole
computer is off?
On the other hand, who uses a mouse anyway? (Although I've
recently switched to Win10, and it doesn't play nice with my
Wacom tablet...) |
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// I find that daily baths are beneficial. // |
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Please, no-one here wants to know about your personal hygiene problems - except perhaps [hippo] ... |
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A wireless mouse would indeed have a switch. But a wired mouse
might be plugged in way around the back of the ordinator
(clearly the correct spelling!) or in some other inconvenient
place. The alternative, I guess, is to lock the screen before
turning the mouse over. |
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Slightly related: I need a device to automatically clean the dust
off the top of my mouse as I use it. I don't like there being even a
single mote of dust on surfaces my fingers interact with (but I
don't mind my screen that isn't a touchscreen being really dusty). |
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