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What stupidly easy tech solution do people gloss over all of the time? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 4 months ago by Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it's the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they're being spied. Here's the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won't use it or haven't used it in a while.

They, whoever it is, can't really spy on you on something that's already off and unplugged!

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[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But what are the benefits of a wireless mouse? You don't have to string the cable from the back of your PC to the mousepad, sure, but that's something you do once a blue moon (unless you often go to LAN partys (which, in itself, are probably not a thing anymore)). At work, okay, I sometimes get up off my chair and have my company-provided wireless mouse on my leg to keep scrolling while I read through legal documents, but that's a rare use case, too, no?

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don’t like the feeling of the cable dragging on the desk. Or the cable snagging on the monitor stand, or anything else on the desk.

I also prefer the aesthetics of a wireless mouse. One less cable to manage. The charge cable is tucked away and only comes out every week or so to charge overnight.

Yeah, my keyboard has a cable but my keyboard doesn’t move, and it’s a pretty sexy (and heavy) cable so it’s different than a mouse cable.

As for latency, from what I understand in many cases a wireless mouse can have less latency than some wired mice. So that’s nice too.

I guess the main downside is weight but that has never bothered me. That said, I’m not a competitive fps player, but even so some wireless mice are quite light.

[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fair points you're making there!

I guess it never bothered me enough to have even crossed my mind.

I need to look into the latency thing. From my limited knowledge it makes no sense that a wireless mouse could have better latency than a wired one. Unless the wire is made of something barely conductive to electricity and the wireless works with stupidly fast transmission tech, I guess o.o

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

https://youtu.be/yy0xmcBg_IY

Great review of several high end mice, wired and wireless. He found no correlation between wires and latency. Ultimately, he concludes that the most important properties of the mouse are weight and feel.