I’ve tried scraping the paint off with a sharp blade, but I think I need to try to find some isopropyl alcohol to properly clean it

yeah I’ve removed the paint from the little pads at the bottom.

interesting

Not sure what model the mouse is, and there’s no screws anywhere. as far as I can tell.

The mouse doesn’t have any visible screws and I don’t think I have the chops to fix the sensor. I have no idea what model the mouse even is

oh :(

I don’t see any screws at all, and I got this mouse for free so I spray-painted it for the sake of it. I have a second working Logitech Pebble I also spray-painted where the front cover is magnetic so I just spray-painted that. I think the yellow didn’t turn out too great though.

I did separate the case from the electronics for my PS4 controller, and it looks sick (in both senses of the word) especially with the 3D printed face buttons

…no (in hindsight probably should have taped the sensor)

also I think the scroll wheel is a bit buggy as well, since I spray painted the top half. It seems that the mouse scrolls by using an optical sensor detecting the mouse wheel, and it gets confused when it sees the light blue. That means whenever I want to scroll down, it occasionally scrolls up a bit. A bit annoying, but I’m surprised the thing scrolls at all

like I spell it as “centre” and it seems perfectly fine even though phonetically it doesn’t make much sense

yeah. It would be interesting, but Apple obviously wouldn’t ever do that unfortunately.

I wonder what a motherboard designed by Apple would look like…

also, given Apple, they would probably try to make everything proprietary (non-standard motherboard shapes, non-standard connecters, etc)

But it sort of makes sense. If you use english words to name a product, it would be great for english speakers but terrible for anyone else due to translation issues and such.

I do think that they should just name their products with a sensible letters and numbers that’s easier to understand. Instead, you have a race to see who has the biggest number and the most letters :(

fair, using more words doesn’t really solve the issue.

Ah right that makes sense.

also btw, I’ve been thinking of trying to restructure and un-confuse the names of things with terrible naming schemes and pitch them to manufacturers. Is that a good idea? (maybe not the pitching to manufacturer part since they probably won’t listen)

exactly! Just give us numbers and words that MAKE SENSE

What does the “H” and “U” stand for in intel processors? For Ryzen processors, why is the “7” repeated in “Ryzen 7 9700X”?

A logical person would think that 5Gbps would be USB 3.0, 10Gbps would be 3.1, 20Gbps would be 3.2, etc. But for some reason, some idiot decided it would be a good idea to have USB 3.0/3.1 Gen 1/3.2 Gen 1 as 5Gbps, USB 3.1 Gen 2/3.2 Gen 2 as 10Gbps, and appending “2x2” to the latter for 20Gbps. And USB4 is a mess, you’ve got 20Gbps (then what’s the point of 2x2) and 40Gbps (but there’s no consistent indicator whether it’s 20 or 40Gbps, not even their stupid “x.1 Gen 1” and “x.2 Gen 2” convention).

What is professional about “Pro” phones? Let’s see, usually they have an extra telephoto camera, and maybe a larger battery, but neither of those are professional features. It’s not professional anything!

Sony is weird. WH-1000XM5 is a mouthful, the “WH” stands for wireless headphones, which makes sense I guess, but why is it “1000”? I guess that goes with your other headphones, the WH-CH700N and WH-C500. But wait a minute, why is there a “CH” in front of the cheaper models? Hang on, the 500 model is a “C” instead, it’s not even consistent! Why does the 1000 end with an X, the 700 with an N (noise-cancelling? but the 1000 also has that), and the 500 with nothing. Then there’s the “M5”. It’s not a Roman numeral like their phones and cameras, and the “M” seems redundant. Also, the cheaper headphones’ newer models are 710N and 510, with no “M2” or anything like that. WHY???

And why is it that Sony’s cameras go up in number as you get more features/more expensive? You’ve got the a6000 (why the superfluous zeroes? bc it’s APS-C ig???), the a7 series, the a9 (why did you skip a8???), and then the…a1? What happened to the pattern, why are we down to 1?

Also, their “ZV” lineup is a whole nother can of worms. The ZV-1 (okay, small number for 1” sensor p&s), ZV-E10 (bigger number due to larger sensor, E bc emount, that makes sense), and then the ZV-E1. Why did it go back to 1? It has a full-frame sensor, so you’d think it would get the biggest number. But I guess it’s like a6000 vs a7, where APS-C has superfluous zeroes.

Also, the a6000 is like a6100, a6400, a6700, etc. But why is the newer ZV-E10 the “ZV-E10 II”? Why not the ZV-E11 or ZV-E20? It’s also got a lot more expensive, so giving it the ZV-E20 title aa well as leaving the ZV-E10 for purchase would make a bit more sense, but sony doesn’t do that.

Sony makes a lot more stuff with weird names (TVs, MP3 players, etc.) but I won’t get into those.

And monitors are basically (alphanumeric soup)(screen size)(alphanumeric soup), basically all monitors have terrible names. The only exception might be Apple, but their “Studio Display” is a small 27” monitor that’s IPS and 60hz, not very “studio” besides the 5K resolution and maybe colour accuracy. Then there’s the “Pro Display XDR”, which at least deserves its “Pro” branding, but the “XDR” is kinda dumb, and they haven’t updated it in like 5 years or something so why is it still sold at such a high price???

makes sense, using WiFi with those frequencies would make it noisy and clogged up, esp. in crowded cities

that makes sense. regulations and such over radio waves