An engineer hacked Apple’s infamous Magic Mouse to make it more user-friendly, ergonomic, and overall less annoying. Ivan Kuleshov is the said engineer, and he has also hacked the Apple Mac Mini in the past to be powered over Ethernet.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 年前

    Definitely the latter. It wasn’t an oversight, because I guarantee you plenty of engineers were telling management how stupid that was. They did the same stupid bullshit with the Apple Pencil.

    • darmabum@lemm.ee
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      3 年前

      Stupid? Hold my beer while we put the charging port right on the bottom plate, so it doesn’t interrupt those clean beautiful lines while it lays on its side like a bloated dolphin.

        • AttackPanda@programming.dev
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          3 年前

          I’ve been bitten by this. I’ve gotten a battery warning in the AM at the start of a day and had my mouse die in the early afternoon. It’s annoying that I can’t just charge it while working so I had to dig around for another mouse and use that while it charged. I hate that I have to check the charge on it and then forget after a while because it does last a long time. So it’ll die on me and I’ll get good about checking charge for a few days and then forget for a while and boom it happens again. If Apple sold this config I would definitely replace my current mouse with a better design.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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            3 年前

            Logitech had the foresight to put a little light on their devices that lets you know when the battery is low. But I guess that would ruin the sleek form factor.

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              3 年前

              Which is not that useful for a device I don’t really look at, and is covered by my hand when in use. I can continue using my trackball while it is charging, though.

              • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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                3 年前

                It is covered by your hand because it has bad ergonomics.

                Good mouses have plenty of space for lights.