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I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

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Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

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Post by nancyminusone »

IlikeKitties wrote: post #39
dhosek wrote: post #14

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Maybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in the air. That Star Trek IV scene was a reminder that a computer mouse isn’t as universally intuitive of a device as it might seem. (And on a tangentially-related note—I’ve been driv…

> Maybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in the air. I've seen this behavior in people that have seen other people use mouses for over a decade before, especially my Mom. It's my personal universal sign to immediately stop…

Neither of my parents have figured out that you only need to double click files and folders, not everything. It's been 25 years.

Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

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Post by IlikeKitties »

nancyminusone wrote: post #51
IlikeKitties wrote: post #39

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> Maybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in the air. I've seen this behavior in people that have seen other people use mouses for over a decade before, especially my Mom. It's my personal universal sign to immediately stop…

Neither of my parents have figured out that you only need to double click files and folders, not everything. It's been 25 years.

Yeah sounds similar. You cannot get there without a deep refusal of trying to understand.

Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

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Post by fragmede »

jdeibele wrote: post #47
fragmede wrote: post #46

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> really miss my radar cruise control. Why would you buy a car that didn't have that, or better technology?

"this weekend" Presumably it's a rental. I rented a Toyota Camry for a week. I didn't like the implementation of radar cruise control - we were driving in the hills around San Luis Obispo and the car ahead would go around a bend, the car would speed up, we'd go around the bend and the car would slam on the brakes. I guess that if it'd been a hybrid that things would have been better since it could use regeneration ra…

Ah, missed that, thanks. still, it's not like rental places don't have a choice of cars

Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

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Post by ender341341 »

addaon wrote: post #20
runlevel1 wrote: post #8

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The author said their aim was to "be nondestructive to this Apple mouse", and would it truly be an Apple mouse if it didn't have at least one questionable design decision? But, in all seriousness, I'm impressed that they were able to do this non-destructively.

> would it truly be an Apple mouse if it didn't have at least one questionable design decision? I don’t know if you consider a single button a questionable decision, but the ADB II mouse was as close to perfect as the technology was able to support when it was released.

their classic mice weren't horrible, but from the puck on the original imacs (so like 98ish?) and everything after has been absolutely horrible on ergonomics.

It's super clear that they don't view the traditional mouse as the intended interface to their system and expect you to use the trackpad.

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Post by projektfu »

bogantech wrote: post #18
Andrew6rant wrote: post #13

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Agreed. I would call Apple's Magic Mouse the worst mouse of all time if it didn't have the cool feature of working as both a trackpad and a mouse. Haven't really seen that elsewhere

It's better than the puck mouse and Mighty Mouse at least

The Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II was pretty bad, worse than these. It frequently got dirty and wasn't ergonomic.

The Sun optical mice managed to be both annoying and clever - they didn't get too dirty but the effect was often the same, skipping around when they should have been smooth.

I was a fan of the Logitech TrackMan marble. (I preferred the one with the thumb wheel).

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