Comment on Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users

itsathursday@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fun fact: You can edit the files in C:\Windows\Cursors with GIMP and make them look however you want.

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t even have to do all that. You can literally just change how your cursor looks from your system settings (maybe it’s a right-click menu, idr). I know I’ve opened up the box myself; you can change the size, which way it points, you can even choose black/white or white/black.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In Windows 11, you can’t change which way it points anymore.

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      • Janx@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Unusable. Uninstall it…

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Close.

  *Mandela

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  • itsathursday@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You sure it’s not Mandala…? /s

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Mandala Effect is when your memories repeat in a spiral pattern.

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• BossDj@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Side note, I watched a video about how Mandela effect is maybe the most American concept ever. So many people kinda ignored/forgot that a guy won the Nobel Prize and was president of a major country for several years, or were never taught it because he’s black. Even more couldn’t be bothered to pay close enough attention to the spelling of a popular author’s name (also foreign). People would rather think that there is some supernatural mystic shared memory gap experience rather than believe we’re idiots.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought the whole Mandela effect/Berinstain Bears thing was tongue in cheek satire about our faulty memories, but then again I thought flat earth was tongue in cheek satire.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s how I treat it. I often use the phrase when I’m surprised to learn I remembered something wrong. I don’t actually believe I’ve traveled to an alternate dimension.

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      • BossDj@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I hope you guys are right and most people use it that way, and some small instances it’s kinda funny. But I fear the danger of being able to handwave away more important information as “it’s weird how our brains do that!” instead of crap, I need to pay more attention. Maybe a case by case thing I dunno.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On the left margin of word documents, your cursor changes to left handed, to help the mouse not cover content when selecting stuff near the border.

  You can still change the mouse pointer to be this way by default, as well

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