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Why are there two scroll wheels on one mouse? My mind can't handle being this confounded
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Yo, dawg. I heard you liked scrolling so we put a wheel behind your wheel so you can scroll while you scroll.
Scroll wheel 2
I've got one of these for Photoshop. I've got the front wheel set up as normal, but the second wheel is set to change the brush size. It makes working much smoother, as I don't have to use the keyboard.
Sounds nice, but I get by fine with alt+right click drag to resize the brush.
Bhopping in csgo
I had a mouse where one was vertical and the other horizontal, but I seem to think the horizontal scroll was oriented horizontally. Having googled the mouse in the picture, it says one is programmable and suggests it starts with volume.
Why wouldn't there just be a small trackball on the nose, wouldn't that be more practical?
Because you'd be constantly changing your volume up and down slightly while scrolling.
For navigating a great big thing that benefits from two axis scrolling? Yes. For literally anything else a scroll wheel might be used for, like swapping weapons in games? No. The clickyness of the average scroll wheel is actually pretty useful and can't really be applied to a trackball.
This mouse model was made decades ago for the time when would come the chosen one. The scroll master. He's here to equilibrate the world with his scroll powers. Zoom in, zoom out. Volume up, volume down. Everything is possible, with, THE. DOUBLE. SCROLL. WHEEL.
What's the second mouse wheel for?
Good choice buying the second for backup. As a console game pr I know nothing about mouses, but I would assume they don’t make this anymore after a decade.
Somewhere around here I have the HP optical mouse that used to come with their desktops. It finally quit working and I had to replace it, and I had to do the math for how long I had been using it.
Twenty years.
Meanwhile a good Xbox controller will only last 100 hours
I've used my xbox 360 controller pretty much daily since 2008, mostly on my pc. Looks as good as new, but with some tiny stick drift since a couple of months back
My Logitech G5 is like 18 years old and other than being dirty it has basically zero wear on it. Only thing that's falling apart is the braiding around the wire
I still have the same Microsoft Intellimouse that I got in 2000 when I went away to college. IIRC it was one of the first that used optical tracking vs ye old ball.
My parents bought a new mouse when I was a kid back in the early 2000s cause we had a crappy view sonic one that came with the pc. The new one was a Microsoft one and it didn’t work cause it needed xp and we had ME. Back to the viewsonic mouse it was for another 20 years until I bought them a Logitech wireless one on a pc I built for them a few years ago.
Wild how the cheap stuff works well for so many years!
Did your parents keep ME for 20 years??? I had it in my first PC and I seemed to be the only person on the planet who had no issues with it, but even so, I was done with it after about a year
Nah we upgraded after a few years. But ME was a struggle! Had so many crashes in Diablo 2 and EverQuest. Thats all that mattered to me.
I'd probably still be using my CeBIT-branded IntelliMouse Explorer if it hadn't been jostled by too many backpack rides. It was just plain good.
The left one looks great. Usually we don't think of computer peripherals as gaining a patina, but it kind of works here. Good call on buying a spare, though!
What brand are these mice? Never seen them before.
Looks to be a Speedlink Prime Z-DW
I think you linked to something else
https://www.speedlink.com/en/PRIME-Z-DW-Gaming-Mouse-red/SL-6390-RD
oh shit lmao thanks for pointing that out, i edited my comment.
I bought a Kinesis Advantage in 2011. I only just recently replaced it with the Kinesis Advantage 360 Pro. The key caps could use a replacement, but besides that it's in good condition.
I wish my mouse would last 11 years. The scroll wheel is vital for me and I wear them down after 2-3.