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This is what 11 years of usage to to a mouse. RIP my baby, hello baby's brother (I bought it somewhere 2014 after I fell in love with the first one) (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Nikls94 to c/[email protected]

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[–] GrammatonCleric 72 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Is no one gonna ask? Just me? Alright.

Why are there two scroll wheels on one mouse? My mind can't handle being this confounded

[–] Potatisen 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yo, dawg. I heard you liked scrolling so we put a wheel behind your wheel so you can scroll while you scroll.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Scroll wheel 2

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Bhopping in csgo

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why wouldn't there just be a small trackball on the nose, wouldn't that be more practical?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Because you'd be constantly changing your volume up and down slightly while scrolling.

[–] VindictiveJudge 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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.