Sunday morning, cloudy sky, listening to the rain. Lovely. Whow, it's getting heavier. Better close the window. ____________________ Finally reinstalled my server (the one that's hosting this gopher hole). This means that there's *no* machine left running a 32 bit OS. Farewell, i686[1]. ____________________ Coming from DOS and Windows 3.0, I never used "mouse acceleration". Back in these days, there simply was no acceleration feature. In some DOS programs, the mouse didn't even work due to various reasons -- or they simply had no mouse support at all. When acceleration was introduced in Windows 2000 (or XP?), I immediatly turned it off. Linear movement was what I was used to. Thinking about my constant wrist pain. I got almost rid of it -- unless I have to use the mouse a lot. I also noticed that it gets worse when I have to do a lot of "micro movements", like aiming for tiny GUI elements. This made me rethink my mouse settings. Maybe acceleration isn't that bad after all? In fact, it allows you to do micro movements *of the cursor* without having to do micro movements *in real world*. Essentially, mouse acceleration makes your mouse *more tolerant to error* when moving slowly. This is exactly what I need, isn't it? It allows my hand to move *less precise* and thus avoid micro movements. Let's see if it helps. ____________________ On the other hand, I never tried a trackball either. Could be interesting as well. ____________________ 1. https://pierre-schmitz.com/farewell-i686/