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Also, are malware-free cursor applications still a thing? Or does it make me an old man to want to do it in 2023?

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[-] austin@aussie.zone 112 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who uses a mouse? I function all applications with just a keyboard, my custom arch based distribution doesn’t even support mice because I removed all drivers from the kernel. /s

You use a keyboard? Cringe. I just pull up a virtual keyboard on screen and click every button that I need to type.

It's 2023, gramps.

[-] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

Ahhh, the steam deck experience, I relate.

[-] denast@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

You mean double touchpad typing superiority?

[-] jarredpickles87@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Uh, excuse me, but the steam controller was actually the first Valve hardware to do this.

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[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Oh, look at Ms Fancy over here. I use a morse code telegraph to make all my inputs. Ones and zeros, that's all a computer needs. Everything above that is pointlessly overcomplicated

But yes, it has RGB LEDs

I'm imagining you slaving away for the past few hours to get this reply out.

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[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 31 points 1 year ago

signature look of superiority

[-] drew_belloc@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Do you use a keyboard? All the cool kids use punch cards

[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

neck beard intensifies

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Who uses a keyboard all I need is a saxaphone

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[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago

You feel a tingle in the back of your mind. You want to change your mouse cursor. Authority.

[-] Freshfrozenplasma@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Without any prompting, I read it in the narrators voice. Praise the Absolute.

Anything for a True Soul! Changing it now, boss.

[-] drew_belloc@programming.dev 47 points 1 year ago

Change the OS cursor, i don't know about mac but you can do that on windows and linux

[-] Wootz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Am I misremembering, but did Baldur's Gate, Warcraft 2, or something ship with a cursor package for windows?

I didn't have Internet back then, but I recall finding out that you could change the cursor to a gauntlet from one of those games, much to the chagrin of my parents.

[-] drew_belloc@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

It is possible, some games like to have some extras like wallpapers, custom icons, etc, specially back them. I would love to see more of that, the last time i've seem was with yakuza kiwami with some avatars, wallpapers and animated arts to use on steam.

I think I might actually do this

[-] yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago

On windows it's Settings > Themes, then click the "Mouse pointers" item. That should bring up the Pointers tab of the Mouse Properties window. Then it's just a matter of getting .ani or .cur versions of the pointers you want.

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[-] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago

You would've loved black and white 2 then. The basic concept of the game was you are a god and you can choose to be evil or benevolent. Like if roller-coaster tycoon and Age of empire had a baby. The pointer was a hand that moved depending on what you were doing in your world. AND it changed the more evil or good you were.

[-] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Of all the games I wish got a proper remake, it's B&W and Dungeon Keeper.

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[-] 0ddysseus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is going a long way back but I'm pretty sure you could use it to just slap the shit out of your giant monster guy. That might be a different "play as god" game though...

[-] KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 year ago

You're thinking of the right game. You had a pet that was pretty much a massive bipedal animal monster that you could train. Depending on what you do with them, when you reward them with food and petting and when you punish them by slapping them, they'd change their behaviour. You could teach them to either farm food off of fields or eat villagers when they were hungry, whatever you wanted. It was a really fun feature, at least for six year old me.

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[-] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whoa, I didn't know deviant art also had useful stuff like this on it. Thanks!

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[-] Wilker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago

i'm not very sure about Windows aside from DeviantArt, RealWorld and similar galleries, but for KDE you can get a catalogue built into the cursor settings

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

No problems in Windows, you can download and use a ton of cursors from Deviantart and a lot of other sitees, there are even some Cursor Manager, with which you can change the cursor set with one clic, also some editors to make your own sets. The cursor image format is the same for Linux and Windows.

[-] DrPop@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago

It's next when you click and the printer finger moves. Serotonin please

[-] Spudwart@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Don’t install cursor applications, just add cursor packs for your respective operating system.

[-] scally@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

On Linux you can install whatever cursor pack you want and then select it… all in the terminal!

[-] callyral@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

And also out of the terminal if you'd prefer graphical settings on desktops like Plasma and XFCE, for example.

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[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

theres malware on cursor applications? isnt it possible to just change the cursor with the .cur files if youre on windows?

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 10 points 1 year ago

Depends on the platform i guess? Windows cursors vs. Linux cursors.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

It takes a lot of willpower for me not to make my ubuntu desktop look like a virus riddled win7/xp desktop

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[-] Hematite@rqd2.net 10 points 1 year ago

You know a game is good when it does this.

[-] regalia@literature.cafe 10 points 1 year ago

I have dreams of the RuneScape dragon scimitar cursor

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[-] Pinkrose@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

What’s the bottom left one from? It’s killing me …

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[-] poopsmith@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ooh, the top left ones are from Ultima Online. Haven't seen those cursors in a long while.

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[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Switch to Linux and you can change your mouse cursor to always be a gauntlet.

I might not switch on my current daily driver, but I'm seriously thinking of converting an extra PC I have lying around and seeing what all the fuss (foss) is about.

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[-] SimplyATable@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Can't you do that with windows too?

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[-] spiderjuzce@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

It's beautiful

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I have been chosen by the big metal hand in the sky!

[-] bellly@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Hand of a lil guy :)

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 5 points 1 year ago

Brings me back to the MapleStory days. That little white glove brings back such happy memories.

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