Of Mice and Men
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I have an old laptop I use as a server, it sits on top of a cabinet in the corner of my room. One day I noticed it seemed like the space key was being held down all the time, but only past the login screen. I was about to buy a new laptop because I thought the keyboard was totally broken (and its kind of old anyway). Turns out an old Bluetooth keyboard in my closet that was paired to my laptop got switched on at some point and the space bar was being pressed.
If you're good at something, never do it for free.
This guy should open up a re-pair shop.
This is not the magic of buying two of them
Well you usually use the magic to take one apart to show how it works, no?
I spent some hours trying to fix my wifi that had suddenly stopped working on my laptop. It was very confusing and I just didn't understand
There was a wifi button you could toggle with a function key... it was me
mine had a dedicated switch for that. on the front. so if you use your lap, you often toggle the switch.
Omg, this was common on dell laptops that had the toggle switch on the side, nearly everyone hit it off when putting/removing it from their bags. And would freak the fuck out when they got to the office an hour before everyone else, including IT.
I hate people. You don't have to be a computer person, but use some basic troubleshooting and common sense.
I have a picture saved of a laptop camera with the lens cover open so I can reply to anyone's ticket saying their camera is "black".
All the help forums I searched to find an answer... and the one that got me was (paraphrasing),
"Hey, I know this sounds dumb. But do you have a wifi switch maybe? Is it an HP?"
And it all clicked... along with the issue, as soon as I toggled the switch. A lesson was learned that day lol
I built a new PC from the ground up a few year back. Every morning when I would sit down to start working I noticed it had rebooted around 6:30 am. I searched through every single log, ran all sorts of hardware scans, checked power outputs, dug through everything in Task Schedulers, and could not find a single reason it would keep rebooting. There were no Event Logs showing the reboot was initiated and no minidump files so it wasn't a BSOD.
I woke up early one morning and sat in my office waiting for it to reboot and nothing. The next morning I go in my office at 8 and it had rebooted. Some mornings it would reboot and others it would not. I was convinced it had to be my power supply and was about to order a new one.
Then I came downstairs right at 6:30 one morning and caught my son walking out of my office. Turns out he was going into the office every morning and holding down the power button and forcing a reboot because liked watching all the RGB light turning all at once when it would turn on.
My gaming PC has a power button on the top of the case. It makes a lot of sense to put it there...
...except when you have cats. And I have 3. I have had it "helpfully" shut off at least twice mid-game. Now I have something that I keep over the button in case the cat is wandering around again.
Of course there's a thing for that...
Nice. I might have to get that. Thanks!
I definitely thought a story about someone's son sneaking in to the study to use a computer before everyone else was awake was going to have a different, less wholesome ending lol.
I had a problem with my Bluetooth mouse where it would the device would have a tiny half second lag when moving it after sitting still for about 10 seconds. It took me a lot of on and off troubleshooting before I found out that Windows was putting the Bluetooth driver itself into sleep mode. Don't ask me why Microsoft decided the default of that a Bluetooth driver needed to be put to sleep while plugged.. But I'm sure those milliamps of power really improved performance /s
You need every bit of juice, you wouldn't want telemetry to miss any of your keystrokes and send that info to microsoft all incomplete. Think of all the productivity losses if one of the dozens of react appplications running on idle were to lag even more than they already do!
My mouse suddenly started EATING batteries. I thought it was going bad but while watching a movie I noticed the pointer showing up. When I re-did my sound system I added a sub-woofer UNDER the desk. It was moving the desk enough with sound to keep waking the mouse up. I had to get a wired mouse. The sound is GOOD.
I use my mice at over 20k dpi, and for the longest time the sensors got increasingly more accurate but still had the rare wiggle. Especially with cars driving by.
To stop my system waking I first started turning the mouse upside down, but later instead propped it half up on the rim of my keyboard. That latter is really quite convenient, might also work for you.
I bet that sound was good. I'd still deal with turning my mouse off or plugging it in when not in use before I give up a wireless mouse.
If it's always plugged in anyway... Why bother? Wired mice are cheaper for the same quality compared to wireless
- I don't have room on my desk for a mouse bungiee
- If I had wired mouse I would have to fish the cable from behind my desk every time I leave for work, and then reroute it again after I come home
- The mouse I have only needs to be recharged every 2-3 weeks or so even with heavy use
If it's always plugged in
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Oh fuck, I had a MacBook years ago and one day the touchpad wouldn't register any clicks anymore.
After one angry hour I found out I didn't turn off my magic mouse before I chucked it into the laptop bag and a book was resting on it, "holding" the button down.
That's what AI should actually do
I'm guilty of this as well. I was going crazy until I realized that I forgot I packed my keyboard in my laptop backpack while traveling..
Why the fuck is the K key spamming me????
So it wasn't DNS?
AWS was down in the Brazil region, so the AI pairing agent couldn’t inject the Crowdstrike kernel module into the mouse driver.
I always enjoy seeing the double asterisk in places where that formatting doesn't work. It's like ahh I know you type elsewhere often enough that it has become part of your "style" of writing lol
It's the other way round: I don't know if it applies to this fella, but /we/ used ** // and __ long before applications knew what that's supposed to mean. We've been using it even on devices that are _physically_ incapable of producing formatted text, so it was the readers responsibility to parse and understand what it's supposed to mean. Back in those days we'd also type :'-( instead of 😢.
It actually annoys me that markdown got it all wrong, and thus applications using markdown do it all wrong as well:
*foo* should be bold, not italic
/foo/ should be italic, not just /slashes/
_foo_ should be underlined, but for lemmy that's just another way of saying italic, underlining seems to be outright impossible.
Why? :'-(
¯\_(ツ)_¯
I see what you did there.
Just incase, take this: /
Thanks! /¯\_(ツ)_¯
Back in those days we’d also type :'-( instead of 😢.
I still do! Fuck the pictures!
Unless it's 🤮
That one really just gets the point across really well lol
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The double asterisk was part of the netiquette era of internet. As well as underscores and all caps.
*zout slaps RhuematoidArthritis with a large trout*
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Thats still wild because I have absolutely no issues having two or more bluetooth mice connected at once. If both are paired, they should reconnect just fine without re-pairing.
But also: This is why it is a good idea to edit the displayed name for every device and not use the default because all the generic stuff will be named the same. Now you have 6 "HID Compliant Input Device" listings without knowing what is what!
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It usually is the user. I know, because that user is me.
It was believable though, because bluetooth has always been randomly a nightmare.
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