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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
1y
trackpoint rant you know, the trackpoint obsession never ceases to amaze me - tracking device with characteristics inferior to pretty much every other alternative outside of size but with great marketing both official and around nerd spaces. for me it's been mostly frustrating to use since it needs to recalibrate so often, and it does not feel precise at all contrary to what some say, it's either too slow or too fast
"b-b-but jeder you have used wrong model", i have five words for that - i don't give a fuck
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1y
trackpoint rant @jeder 1) its better in some niche scenarios where you would really like a trackball. Like on ships or so 2) Its great at scrolling at constant speed
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trackpoint rant @jeder Also, this might be only my issue since I have rather sensitive skin - after some amount of gliding my fingers over a touchpad i get this unpleasant feeling at the tip of my finger
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
1y
re: trackpoint rant from all of the pointing devices i have used, my favourite for normal use really is a trackpad, with trackballs being close, although you can't really beat trackpads with all the gestures that leave more space for keyboard shortcuts, yes, ploopy has nice qmk trackballs but at least their mini trackball suffers from having shitty switches which i still haven't gotten around to replacing
and safe to say, i still use normal mice for first-person camera games
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
1y
re: trackpoint rant oh and mini trackball has a shittier sensor than classic trackball for some goddamn reason
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corsa @corsa@fabrykajabo.li
1y
re: trackpoint rant @jeder this reminded me that many years ago i had an opinion that i don't want a desktop pc unless it would be possible to use a touchpad with it (i had a laptop back then and didn't know shit about peripherals) neocat_googly_woozy
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
1y
re: trackpoint rant @corsa i mean it's possible i am doing that right now
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dmiException šŸ’½ @domi@donotsta.re
1y
re: trackpoint rant @jeder i mean, cool, to each their own

i can’t fucking stand touchpads, palm rejection, and the notion that basically everyone will attach an external mouse (and maybe even keyboard!) to a laptop to make it ā€œusableā€. this is the norm right now

trackpoints have their issues (lol,
I would know) but it’s still comfier for me. Not in a million years would I market this to someone else, it’s just something I like blobcat3c
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re: trackpoint rant @domi @jeder same

my new work laptop is a Dell and I really miss my trackpoint 😭
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luna the doggie neofox_snug therian @lunareclipse@snug.moe
1y
trackpoint rant @jeder the too slow or too fast problem seemed to be fucking libinput defaulting to enabling acceleration on the trackpoint for me

well, even disabling that, yeah it's slow.

I feel like there's gotta be some way to make it better but we won't see that because noone will make any more customizable driver for it at this point

the main thing I like about it is that I don't need to get my hands off the keyboard to use it like with literally every other pointing device

had to get used to a touchpad anyway on my current laptop and its fine I guess?

honestly the thing that made me finally kinda like touchpads was when I switched to Niri which like, actually makes use of gestures instead of pretending a touchpad is a bad mouse like most DEs
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
1y
trackpoint rant @lunareclipse gnome and kde could get some lessons from apple when it comes to gestures because like holy shit it's so bad, windows gestures are okay? I guess? but mac gestures are peak tbh
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luna the doggie neofox_snug therian @lunareclipse@snug.moe
1y
trackpoint rant @jeder I feel like you could shove the Plato cave meme in here somehow
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fungus (penicillin producer) @hypha@cafe.mycelium.locahlo.st
1y
trackpoint rant @jeder @lunareclipse always hated trackpad until got to use a macbook trackpad
now it hates all trackpads but macbook’s trackpads
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