Oh, it stands for Half-assed Input Device!
I had a nice little Kensington mouse that was comfy, had two thumb-buttons, had a good scroll wheel, and survived at least a decade of heavy use. It was boring and reliable. I only stopped using it because the primary button finally became unreliable through wear.
I replaced it with the only wired two-extra-thumb-buttons mouse I could find, a fancy-ass Corsair "Dark Core RGB Pro SE". It's somewhat uncomfortable (for my kind of grip). It installs some system service that swells to well over a gigabyte of RAM. Within half a year, the scroll wheel has developed an amusing issue where each tick of the scroll wheel will sometimes scroll in the opposite direction, anywhere from once in a while to nearly half the time.
But you know, at least all the lights are controllable! Except the super bright green one right on top.
I really want my boring mouse back.
Oh, it stands for Half-assed Input Device!
@ElectricKeet Ugh, that's annoying.
We've had no problems with our fancy Logitech, but it also has onboard memory so no need to keep the software running (and we actually /can't/ run the software anyway now that we're on Linux).
Oh, it stands for Half-assed Input Device!
@IceWolf This has onboard memory, but it's way less configurable than having the software running. *shrug*
The Half-assed Input Device has been modified.
Well, not exactly modified, but I did find a way to clear up the wonky mouse-wheel problem.
...by blowing into it like a damn NES cartridge. (Seriously, never do that. It's how you get corroding contacts.) Yeah, it seems that this eight-zillion DPI tournament-ready Elite Gamer Mouse will respond with lightning-fast accuracy and dominate the competition as long as there's no dust. It has allergies.
I'm sure it's improved my reaction time in Adobe InDesign, and I'm crushing nonograms like never before.