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Do any of you guys now a company that produces quality mice where their firmware is open source and can be flashed/programmed with opens source software?

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[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Check out Ploopy. Their main focus is trackballs, but they have a mouse too.

[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I got completely sidetracked by this, but who on earth holds their mouse like this? an image of a person's hand on a Ploopy mouse, with the middle finger on the left click button, and the ring finger on the right click button.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Honest answer: pro gamers. I see pro Starcraft 1, 2, and Counter-Strike pros do this. I think it's weird but I guess it works for them.

Fair, but those bits on the sides of the main mouse buttons are also buttons

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Lol that's certainly one way to do it. ~~I have actually seen a few mice with three buttons and a wheel but that's obviously not whatever's going on here~~

Edit: I'm an idiot, there's 4 buttons on top apparently

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

It has 4 buttons on top.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago

I have 2. One has broken twice from over use, so I reprinted the broken piece and swapped it.