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Your memory is bad. Or rather, you're mixing up two things here, namely the quality of the sensor (which, for ball mice, is sh*t) and the tooling around it.
Optical mice are precise, ball mice aren't. Even without lint getting in the rollers (have fun pretending to prevent that), the mechanics ain't precise in the slightest.
But that's what not what you're talking about. You're talking about settings kicking in after reading the sensor, before the results get translated to cursor movements.
It seems, you're fond of mouse acceleration. I don't judge here, not everyone of us has to be a gamer. However, there's absolutely nothing preventing you from enabling mouse acceleration with a modern mouse. It's not the mouse that does this, it's the software! Windows got a mouse acceleration setting (albeit labeled somewhat awkwardly) right in the mouse control panel. So enable acceleration there and enjoy what you're used to with a modern mouse.
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A little assumptive, there, Member 9167057? Acceleration was enabled when I installed the mouse. I've played with it a few times since then, to see if any other setting worked better, but I've got it tuned as best it can be with the software settings available. But it isn't as nice as the old-style mice. ElectronProgrammer gave what is probably the real reason down below. My old ball mice were more precise than my newer laser mice, regardless of your beliefs.
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If I wanted to be assumptive, I'd go great lengths assuming use cases where mouse acceleration is more precise/better, than a 1:1 translation.
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That behavior can probably be implemented via drivers / settings. I think it would require some getting used to if making that switch.
I don't miss having to clean the mouse.
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I still have to clean my mouse!  Must not be the cleanest person around, because lint gets in them, then they stop tracking when the laser gets confused in the lint!
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I somehow prefer the worst of both worlds, trackballs, they have a ball that gets dirty and are laser tracked 
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I tried a trackball once, but hated the response I got. Tried again. Still hated it. Glad they work for you!
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I don't know if perhaps you just haven't used a really good modern mouse. There are plenty of cheap ones out there. You mention buying Logitech throughout the years, so I'd imagine good mice - tho even Logitech can make some cheaper ones. For example, even my M720 isn't "amazing" - it's just convenient because it can pair with 3 things and can do dongle or BT. But if I compare that with my SteelSeries Aerox - all the things you're talking about missing, with precision and so on - it's all there, but no cord to get in the way. Admittedly, because it's designed to be an uber-light mouse, the battery isn't huge, so I have to charge at least once a week (gaming at max dpi & max refresh (1000Hz) smashed the battery), but it is only 66g - if a bigger battery brought that up to even 120g, that would be lighter than a ball mouse and (imo) way better.
I'd also traditionally been a Logitech guy - MX1000 (x2), MX1100, ergo trackball (wanted to try it out), M720 - but I haven't ever bought a gaming mouse from them, so perhaps their gaming line is equally good. I've definitely heard good things about them.
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If you say that getting the money
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You will spend your life
completely wasting your time
You will be doing things
you don't like doing
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That is, to go on doing things
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Which is stupid.
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What we need is expo (exponential) like on RC airplane transmitters. You can set the rate, total throw, and a dead zone. Most importantly you can make the acceleration increase as the movement gets further from the center and adjust the rate of the expo to your liking. Gives you great fine control at first, then lots of throw when things start to go horribly wrong.
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I do not think they are better but they (still) have their purpose.
David O'Neil wrote: Small, short movements, resulted in small, precise screen movements, whereas larger movements resulted in larger screen movements
That was due to software settings (mainly acceleration) in the OS but also due to them being analog and the way they are built. When you move the ball, the movement is transferred to variable resistors (part of a voltage divider) or infrared incremental encoders, both of which do not have a linear scale. The faster you move the bigger is the number reported to the OS (or smaller of someone screwed it when designing the mouse).
David O'Neil wrote: I remember having to clean them regularly
That is a major pain but is minimized if you can keep the surface clean.
Personally, I still use a HP two button serial ball mouse on the field because it works on every surface (even dirt), or use your fingers if you do not have a surface, and that thing is basically indestructible. It has been run over by cars, drowned, fell from considerable heights, etc, and except some scratches it still works 
At home I currently use a Logitech MX master 3 that I alternate with my old Wacom Bamboo Fun pen (I can not use a mouse for long periods because of my RSI).
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I never liked the rollerball--it would get "stuck" at odd times, even when clean.
Optical mice come in three styles: The good, the bad and the ugly. Ooops, wrong thread.
However, most optical mice are made cheap, feel cheap. My personal favorite is the Logitech M510. Has a little weight to it, but it feels solid. And it feels comfortable in my hand.
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rjmoses wrote: My personal favorite is the Logitech M510
That's what I have. Could never go back to a three-button mouse after that.
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Farticus - Visual Studio Marketplace[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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For when the dog's not around to blame 
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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I have a greyhound; their emissions are lethal.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Call me when they get the smell right. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Someone has brought my dad back from the dead?! 
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Written by Mads Kristensen
OK. The name sounded familiar. Sure enough:
Mads Kristensen is a Principal Program Manager on the Visual Studio team
I'm all for fun and games, but IMO a guy in his position shouldn't be getting his name associated with these sorts of silly extensions, because you KNOW someone's going to comment that meanwhile, VS's endless stream of bugs is getting larger, not smaller. Once everything's addressed...then the PM for VS can write silly extensions.
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Mads has probably written more VS Extensions than anyone else (over 150) and also produced several tutorials on how to write them.
This probably started out as demo for how to capture build errors and do something and making a noise is slightly more interesting usual. Having seen some of Mads' tutorials, this extension probably only took him a couple of minutes to write as he uses templates for most of the boilerplate code.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information.
I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there...
Do you use something similar? how do you manage it?
As always thank you in advance!
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I always used to keep a folder of tips as text files, and update them as needed - but have you considered posting them as Tips here? I have several of my text files as tips, and they are pretty easy for me to find, and who knows? Someone else might benefit as well.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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As a true OrinalGriff disciple, I keep my tips in text files so I can search them easily from Notepad++.
When I see interesting software I usually recommend it on Slant[^] where I can find it back under my profile.
Another option might be to use a knowledge-base-systems-for-personal-use[^]
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Sh*t, I've got disciples now?
How come I missed out on groupies and went straight to "nut cult leader"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: "nut cult leader"?
I think the approved term these days is "influencer".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Don't care! I want my groupies!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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