Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls 🖱️
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@FlockOfCats I never did the "dunking into cleaning solution" thing. I cleaned it with a wipe, and *maybe* ran it under water and patted it dry. Cleaning solution? What kind of fancy-pants mouse balls are you cleaning over there? 😂
Truth be told, me neither. I always used wipes, too!
Fingernail and flick!
I was in the meeting when the head sysadmin for a large university dumped a box of mouse balls onto a conference room table.
"You turned down my request for optical mice.
You want to know why trouble tickets take so long and I can't get projects finished?
Here's why. Two hundred mouse balls replaced this quarter, thousands cleaned and serviced.
Every time one of my staff touches a mouse with a ball, it costs twice what a modern ball-less mouse would cost.
Every time you cut my capex, you pay twice that in opex."
A truly epic scene.
He got his budget request.
@FlockOfCats it's ironic many have, to this day, not learned to clean their balls