Post by @bytex64@awesome.garden

2026-08-23 05:48 UTC

I'm kinda getting into old PC mice. They're still relatively cheap (though certainly not as cheap as they used to be) and well-maintained ball mice are not nearly as bad as you remember. Unfortunately, they are one of the grossest things you can receive in exchange for money. (The grossest things in life, of course, cost you nothing but your sanity)

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@bytex64@awesome.garden 2026-08-23 05:57

This dissected mouse is a Logitech M-BD58, one of the first popular optical mice from around the turn of the century. If you're over 30, you've probably seen one. The other mouse is a M-BJ58, which looks identical. Clearly one is a later version of the other, but I don't know which.

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@brian@awesome.garden 2026-08-23 06:03

@bytex64@awesome.garden I am forever scarred by my early days on the IT helpdesk… having well-used equipment come in for retirement. I once had a laptop brought to me with the remains of (what I can only hope was) a PB&J sandwich still stuck between the keys and to the screen. It had belonged to a building inspector. Those guys worked out of their trucks and had laptop mounts bolted to the dash (like police cars often do). Pretty sure this particular guy had been using his open laptop as a lunch table for years.

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@dianaprobst@mastodon.art 2026-08-23 21:21

@bytex64@awesome.garden PS/2 baby!

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@dianaprobst@mastodon.art 2026-08-23 22:04

@bytex64@awesome.garden I want to make my own scroll wheels I think. I tend to lose mice because the rubber perishes and grows.

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