Cleaned the gunk out of my mouse
A surprising amount of cat hair, I think I need to brush her more. I just kept pulling balls of felt that had once been cat hair out of the workings of the scroll wheel.
It feels sooo much exactly the same now.
I have a Trackball mouse. Remember when mice still had balls instead of optical sensors? Cleaning those made mousing so much better. The same is still true for Trackball users.
Night and day difference when you remove the gunk from the inside of a Trackball.
Sadly, I managed to make a tiny scratch in the ball of my M570, and it often catches on the support inside the mouse. Very annoying. Why did Logitech make removing the ball so frustratingly difficult?
The mouse I defurred is in fact an M570 trackball, and yeah I usually have the ball out of them quite frequently to clean the three little points. My old Microsoft branded trackball had a much larger hole to push out the ball, this one is barely big enough for a finger, and the one on the MX Ergo is so small you can't even use most pens.
Yeah, I used to have an MX Ergo. That was even worse.
I've been thinking about switching to a Kensington Slimblade Pro. But that would mean giving up on the two extra buttons. And that one mouses completely differently.
I honestly didn't find it to be that much better of a mouse, the angle of the ball meant I couldn't move it as far in the vertical axis, and the rubberized coating on mine perished so it's got petroleprosy now.
Eww that's disappointing. In that case, I'll stick with my Logitech for now.
I'm afraid to ask, but my curiosity overwhelms my fear. Why do you have a trackball mouse? It's 2025, there are far better options.
I also switched to a trackball for ergonomic reasons. Not carpal tunnel, something with my thumb. I think ulnar and radial deviation (left and right movement from the wrist) aggravated it. Trackballs helped, as did physio.
A number of years ago I had carpal tunnel syndrome problems. Which was very painful, and I switched to a trackball mouse for health reasons. I'm used to it now.