Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

[Katheryne Helendale]

I use Logitech trackballs. They're great devices that work perfectly with my laptop when I'm lounging in my recliner. Unfortunately, they use cheap switches for the buttons. I've had to replace the switches in all of the Logitech trackballs I've owned.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

trackballs

Found your problem.

 

[BuckClyde]

Too lazy to find an appropriate post to quote, so re: USB(-A) connectors, reminds me of the meme I saw that said something like "Works one of two ways, takes three tries to insert correctly."

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Found your problem.

I've got one of these things. They're actually much easier to control (for me anyway) than the center-mounted trackballs. It feels a lot more natural.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I might as well toss this in:

Gaming Mice and Wireless Gaming Mouse | Logitech G Canada

Browse Gaming Mice. Logitech G professional gaming mice are engineered to compete. Find a gaming mouse for every game, budget, and hand size.

www.logitechg.com

I'm on my second one, first one lasted for years. This one's been truckin' for years. Use for both MMO gaming and camera control in Blender. Before that I had a Razer numpad style mouse, it lasted six months before it crapped out. I got another thinking maybe just a fluke. Nope, six months.

 

[Ashiri]

Hmm... The vast majority of my peripherals are Logitech and the trackball is very useful when I'm using my laptop.

 

[danielravennest]

My Microsoft Natural keyboard and Trackball Explorer mouse are 14 years old now, and still working well. They need cleaning once in a while, but that's it.

 

[Tigar]

Mouse crapped out in six months anyway. This Logitech's been truckin for years now.

I had a Logitech trackball that lasted me for at least 5 years. When it finally died, I searched hard on teh interwebs and found another of the same model which I only used for a couple years and have left languishing due to my adulterous relationship wif mai iPad.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology

Juggalos had it right all along. It turns out the Insane Clown Posse fans' makeup effectively blocks some facial recognition software.

consequenceofsound.net

Get me some Faygo. We are all juggalos now.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

ICP makeup blocks human face recognition too.

 

[danielravennest]

Exoplanets are planets around other stars. 4000 of them have been discovered since 1992:

 

[Brenda Archer]

Exoplanets are planets around other stars. 4000 of them have been discovered since 1992:

It’s so reassuring to know we’re not weird or unusual. Maybe not even alone.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology

Juggalos had it right all along. It turns out the Insane Clown Posse fans' makeup effectively blocks some facial recognition software.

consequenceofsound.net

Get me some Faygo. We are all juggalos now.

 

[Free]

 

[Lori Claremont]

 

[Free]

From the youtube channel Professor Dave Explains, which has put out a few videos that eviscerate flat earth views:

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

India’s Shooting for the Moon, and the Country Is Pumped (Published 2019)

The country’s plans to launch an uncrewed rover into space were delayed at the last moment, but it is determined to join a select group of nations.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Free]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I remember learning BASIC on one of those. Well, that and the Commodore 64 I had.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

What pissed me off most about CTRL-ALT-DEL is the IBM PC keyboard had (and still has) a dedicated system request key, called "SysReq", that was intended for precisely that kind of purpose, and it was close to DEL so they could have used SysRq as an interrupt (which was recoverable) and CTR-ALT-SysRq for the Big Red Reset Button. No harder to remember or hit and much more logical.

The only thing I can think of that ever used SysRq was OS/2.