• SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.comBEnglish
    3·
    56 minutes ago

    I had a problem with my Bluetooth mouse where it would the device would have a tiny half second lag when moving it after sitting still for about 10 seconds. It took me a lot of on and off troubleshooting before I found out that Windows was putting the Bluetooth driver itself into sleep mode. Don’t ask me why Microsoft decided the default of that a Bluetooth driver needed to be put to sleep while plugged… But I’m sure those milliamps of power really improved performance /s

  • froh42@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 hours ago

    Oh fuck, I had a MacBook years ago and one day the touchpad wouldn’t register any clicks anymore.

    After one angry hour I found out I didn’t turn off my magic mouse before I chucked it into the laptop bag and a book was resting on it, “holding” the button down.

  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Wouldnt he see this when debugging since both mice have different mac address and typically you pair the device by calling its mac address. Maybe he dove way to deep and skipped the simple steps.

  • MrShankles@reddthat.com
    10·
    3 hours ago

    I spent some hours trying to fix my wifi that had suddenly stopped working on my laptop. It was very confusing and I just didn’t understand

    There was a wifi button you could toggle with a function key… it was me

  • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 hours ago

    I’m guilty of this as well. I was going crazy until I realized that I forgot I packed my keyboard in my laptop backpack while traveling…

    Why the fuck is the K key spamming me???

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      AWS was down in the Brazil region, so the AI pairing agent couldn’t inject the Crowdstrike kernel module into the mouse driver.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    Thats still wild because I have absolutely no issues having two or more bluetooth mice connected at once. If both are paired, they should reconnect just fine without re-pairing.

    But also: This is why it is a good idea to edit the displayed name for every device and not use the default because all the generic stuff will be named the same. Now you have 6 “HID Compliant Input Device” listings without knowing what is what!

    • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      3 hours ago

      i have a mouse that generates a random mac address every time i pair it….
      i dual wield linux and windows….
      it’s a little bit annoying re-pairing it every time i switch

  • hactar42@lemmy.world
    49·
    7 hours ago

    I built a new PC from the ground up a few year back. Every morning when I would sit down to start working I noticed it had rebooted around 6:30 am. I searched through every single log, ran all sorts of hardware scans, checked power outputs, dug through everything in Task Schedulers, and could not find a single reason it would keep rebooting. There were no Event Logs showing the reboot was initiated and no minidump files so it wasn’t a BSOD.

    I woke up early one morning and sat in my office waiting for it to reboot and nothing. The next morning I go in my office at 8 and it had rebooted. Some mornings it would reboot and others it would not. I was convinced it had to be my power supply and was about to order a new one.

    Then I came downstairs right at 6:30 one morning and caught my son walking out of my office. Turns out he was going into the office every morning and holding down the power button and forcing a reboot because liked watching all the RGB light turning all at once when it would turn on.

    • limelight79@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 hours ago

      My gaming PC has a power button on the top of the case. It makes a lot of sense to put it there…

      …except when you have cats. And I have 3. I have had it “helpfully” shut off at least twice mid-game. Now I have something that I keep over the button in case the cat is wandering around again.

  • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.mlEnglish
    101·
    11 hours ago

    My mouse suddenly started EATING batteries. I thought it was going bad but while watching a movie I noticed the pointer showing up. When I re-did my sound system I added a sub-woofer UNDER the desk. It was moving the desk enough with sound to keep waking the mouse up. I had to get a wired mouse. The sound is GOOD.

    • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      I bet that sound was good. I’d still deal with turning my mouse off or plugging it in when not in use before I give up a wireless mouse.

      • 87Six@lemmy.zip
        6·
        4 hours ago

        If it’s always plugged in anyway… Why bother? Wired mice are cheaper for the same quality compared to wireless

        • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 hours ago

          Plugged in whenever it’s not in use. Unplugged while in use. That keeps it charged but lets you be untethered while using it.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    543·
    11 hours ago

    I always enjoy seeing the double asterisk in places where that formatting doesn’t work. It’s like ahh I know you type elsewhere often enough that it has become part of your “style” of writing lol

    • optional@sh.itjust.works
      75·
      11 hours ago

      It’s the other way round: I don’t know if it applies to this fella, but /we/ used ** // and __ long before applications knew what that’s supposed to mean. We’ve been using it even on devices that are _physically_ incapable of producing formatted text, so it was the readers responsibility to parse and understand what it’s supposed to mean. Back in those days we’d also type :'-( instead of 😢.

      It actually annoys me that markdown got it all wrong, and thus applications using markdown do it all wrong as well:

      *foo* should be bold, not italic
      /foo/ should be italic, not just /slashes/
      _foo_ should be underlined, but for lemmy that’s just another way of saying italic, underlining seems to be outright impossible.

      Why? :'-(