What are the practical and functional use cases that benefit from a clit mouse vs, say, a trackpad? Genuine question, I've seen them on older laptops but I always assumed they were purely vestigial from a time when trackpads were no good. Also, mandatory: in Russia, clit mouse is blue .
A ton of upsides. * The hand does not leave the hone row. * It never by mistake registers your hands as a click or a movement. * Your skin can be extremely wet or dry without consequence. * You can continue a motion without being limited by the size of the trackpad, because you don't modulate the position directly, but its first derivative. This removes tension between being precise and having the range. * It separat…
Am I the only person that consistently has trouble with trackpoints? Every time I try to make a large movement I get halfway across the screen before the thing decides it's drifting, tries to correct, and sets its new zero at the edge of physical travel. Then I have to take my finger off it, wait thirty seconds for it to re-zero at physical neutral, and try again, this time remembering to zig-zag so it doesn't think that my inputs are spurious drift.