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Not sure recently, had the same issue and busted 2 deathadders within 12 months of purchase. The clicker had a little stem to push the switch which cracked off. Ended up getting a zowie next and haven't had any issues.

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Confusing by-line for link goes to an older video by Louis,
actual yt link for video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yo8av6w4sc

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At the time iPhone 1 didn't seem like anything smarter than an iPod that could take calls. I was hyped over the Nokia 770 and eager to see what else would come out with Meamo OS. It took till mid 2008 until iPhone 3G and iOS 2 (and app store) were released.

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Sure, ultimately I dismissed it at the time as a fancy iPod and chose a Nokia.

autokludge ,
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That's a continuation of TA Spring? Neat, played that a looong time ago.

autokludge ,
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I think there is a similar effect with speed-reading v slow-reading. Slow reading gives me time to mull over and digest what I'm reading, while speed can be good to skim for information.

autokludge ,
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As a design/drafter -- I design to 'look right' which is probably overkill. Hopefully that headroom helps with the 300lb ape factor.

autokludge ,
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Garfield is

Garfield is but a figment of John's delusions.

autokludge ,
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A corporate 'promise' is a verbal unenforceable contract. What do you even do with the promise of a habitual liar?

Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. ( lemmy.world )

People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD comic says won't pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those people only...

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I'll do it for things that don't seem like it will save much, but because it was such an infrequent task I would forget how all the cogs worked when it needed to be done again, and what pitfalls to avoid. So it's not just direct time saved, but also increasing reliability.

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I have a lot of repetition in my job (CAD modeller). Even just knowing keyboard shortcuts & setting up shortcuts for frequently used operations can easily net me 5 seconds per operation. I want to spend my energy on solving the task at hand, not on how to use the tool in the moment. I don't want to move the mouse away from the work area if I can help it.

Maybe not as frequent 5 per day - but scripts for really bottom of the barrel stuff:

  • Cycle thru all currently open drawing documents, zoom to full page and force save.
    • zoom out ensures drawing can be identified from document thumbnail.
    • the software is known to crash, especially editing drawings.
    • easy 10mins duplicated work saved.
  • Printing all open drawings out to the office printer in order with a delay between them, so i don't spend the next 20 minutes manually sorting the drawing prints.
    • printers don't always print in incoming order, some documents take longer to process.
  • find/replace for text notes
    • the software doesn't have that feature.
autokludge ,
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Man i really need to dig up SMAC or something like it.

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