Submitted 2 days ago by YICHM@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
…and they assume that the pointing device is a mouse.
inspiration: I’m using a trackball with my left hand because of a broken button. The pointer shape doesn’t make sense since i’m not clicking with my right index finger.
Windows used to have a left handed pointer unless I am mandala’d again
Fun fact: You can edit the files in C:\Windows\Cursors with GIMP and make them look however you want.
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.
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.
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.
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
Most people do be right handed
It actually made me curious, and apparently you can download cursor packs that point the other way :3 so that’s neat
I was going to say, I remember Win7 having not just mutliple options but also a left-handed version. I would be surprised if DE’s like KDE don’t.
It’s still there in windows 10 lol
I changed my pointer many years ago to be a lefty!
I remember seeing a lefty coworker who had done this at a previous job and it broke my brain just to watch him use it. So cool and so funny how a minuscule change like that (literally flipping an image that’s just a few pixels) can make such a but mental difference!
*Correct-handed
I’m left-handed, but I’ve always used a mouse with my right hand… and now I’m wondering if I was unconsciously influenced by the orientation of the pointer.
Mouse with your off hand means your main hand can do other things - type or such. Most keyboards have a numberpad to the right, so the left is the more ergonomic place for a mouse.
I have two computers, and two keyboards and two mice. I keep a mouse on each side. (I tried a KVM and didn't like it). YMMV.
Most keyboards have a numberpad to the right, so the left is the more ergonomic place for a mouse.
This is why I got a TKL keyboard. It took a long time for me to realize how far away I was reaching for my mouse.
I kmow they assume right-handedness with the pointer’s orientstion, but I dont see how they assume the method of locomotion. 🤨
I have a coworker who’s also left-handed (as am I), but he actually uses a Logitech MX Master 3 (which is very much designed to be held with a right hand), with his left hand. No idea why, it’s uncomfortable and he can’t use half the buttons correctly.
Not much of a shower thought.
That’s like saying the color green is green
Who are you, the shower police? You need a warrant to be in here!
Green is a myth. (I'm colorblind)
Could be a right in the shower with a hand injury, struggling to figure out how the left hand works as they fumble the soap, wondering what else they’ve been so rightfully been accustomed to
I use the mouse left-handed and have never had this thought
The arrow doesn’t make sense…?
Oh! You have a tiny hand graphic for mouse pointer?
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I remember when everyone was customizing their mouse cursors like they were ringtones.
homes@piefed.world 2 days ago
Yeah, there was like, a 15 year period. Where nobody ran standard cursor on their desktops. People would have these crazy animated things that would just drive you crazy.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Linux solved a problem I didn’t really know I was having. getting old, lose the cursor because old. Wiggle the mouse around and the cursor grows like the grinches heart long enough for me to see it, then it goes back to normal.
ms… they put a white circle which you can’t see if you press some weird ass keyboard combo that may or may not also open edge and attempt to create a ms account (I dunno if this is true, they just suck)
Naz@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
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Says the person who was jealous of their cool custom cursors 😎
Look at that man, operating a nuclear powerplant terminal with a Starcraft cursor
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
On Linux I still use a pretty non standard cursor it is an animated cat
bluGill@fedia.io 2 days ago
I need the mouse cursor to be better at drawing attention to itself at times though. When you have a couple big monitors often finding where that cursor is hiding becomes a problem.
klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 days ago
Honestly mouse cursor customization is the one thing I miss from KDE, I love having goofy animations as my cursor
snooggums@piefed.world 2 days ago
Just like ringtones
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 days ago
I still use a customized mouse on my work computer.