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Mircea Neacsu wrote: his is nothing like what I've expected. Biggest problem is the ridiculously short battery life: about a week on average and that's without the fancy RGB lightning.
Appears to be up to spec since this is exactly what the following says.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/08/19/corsair-harpoon-rgb-wireless-gaming-mouse[^]
I presume you stop using the mouse and computer at some point in the day. Why not just plug it in?
I use a wireless mouse that takes actual batteries. I change them once a year because I change the batteries in everything that often. Never had a problem. It is a M510 mouse from Logitech. I switch hands back and forth for the same reason you mentioned.
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jschell wrote: Why not just plug it in?
Because I forget?  Because I need to keep another cable to clutter my desk?
jschell wrote: I switch hands back and forth
I switch mostly left to right 
I'll see myself out on the back door
Mircea
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You just spent 40 minutes on a 4 minute read 
I'm sure we've all been there
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I'm sorry, but I fell a sleep reading your post.
What was that again?
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TL;DR
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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>,>
Real programmers use butterflies
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"Boobies and a belly button"? 
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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bored emoji
at least i think that's what it is. I learned it through internet osmosis.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I was thinking “bored cat emoji”. Maybe add some zzzs
.> zzZZzz
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What a coincidence!
I fell asleep reading YOUR post...
In fact I fell asleep read all of the p...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Douglas Adams called it The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I'll spend 40 minutes proofreading an email that took me 4 minutes to write  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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same here, but instead with a gif or meme I am sharing
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“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I'm known for my long-winded emails 
Software Zen: delete this;
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I got out of color ink and I was getting a message to print in black until the black went out of ink too.
Then I replaced all...
Now when I print in "grey scales" the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing printer is using 4 different cartriges...
Why can't they just allow the "only use black ink" as standard option?
(this actually is a rethoric question, I don't need an answer, just wanted to rant a bit)
[rant off]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Anybody else read that as ‘frigging pointers’?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Could have been it as well 
Sadly I was moved to another department and my programming has been drastically reduced
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Computer history section:
In my student days, line oriented editors - as opposed to screen oriented - were still around; teletype class terminals could be seen, and line editors were in use for many years after screens took over. We received the manual for the new editor version, containing a tiny misprint ... The section on the command 'L - move the current line pointer' came out in the large, boldface headline font as 'L - move the current line printer'
There is a sequel to that story:
The typical student accessible printer at the time was a GE Terminet - "sort of" a line printer: It had a continuously running rubber 'tractor belt' with metal fingers for each letter (sort of like old style typewriter hammers). Behind the belt was 132 solenoid hammers, one for each character position. When the 'a' finger passed over a line position where an 'a' should be printed, the hammer stroke the finger to hit the paper (through an ink ribbon). When the 'b' finger passed over where a 'b' should be printed, that hammer stroke as well - possibly at the exact same time as the 'a' in another print position.
We tried to construct printout lines that would make all 132 hammers strike at the same time. That turned out to be impossible, but with a line of alternating space and every second finger on the ribbon, like 'a c e f ...', 66 hammers would hit the fingers, paper and roller, at exactly the same time. The impact made the printer make a small jump forward. We had a software implementation of "Move the current line printer"! We made a small utility for generating such lines, and discussed whether we should name it 'L', in honor of the QED manual misprint, but it ended up being called BANG - "BANG 5" would print five such lines in rapid succession, generating five quite loud bangs, and causing the printer to make five small jumps forward.
5 was the maximum. If we exceeded that, the power supply broke down and had to be replaced. I think we burned out four or five power supplies before the technical service guys discovered what caused it, and we were sternly told that any use of the BANG program in the future would result in the guilty one(s) being kicked out of the university
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An old mentor gave us a course on these types of printers as well as others like drums, etc
He then went into details like you describe on how to “test” (not torture) the various types.
Thanks for bringing back those great memories.
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This reminds me... The company I worked for a long time ago was given the contract for managing the computer system for a local credit union. The system was an HP 9000 'supermini', and had several of the old 300MB 9-platter disk drives that were the size of washing machines. The first night that we ran the end of month processing for the credit union, which really hammered the data base, we discovered that the HP installer guy had neglected to bolt the drives in place on the raised computer floor. As a result, the drives took a walk, pulled their cables, and everything came to a resounding, crashing, halt.
As I recall, we had a team from HP out replacing hardware and rebuilding the machine for several 24-hour days, during which transactions were recorded on paper.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I use a laser. Not a laser printer, an industrial cutting laser I got for another project, at the lowest setting and highest speed (6w 300mm/s) it is just enough to scorch the paper. Zero ink needed! Though it's brown, not black, and is best read with a backlit table (like an xray), not to mention significantly more fragile so avoid designs including things like large boxes. Or just glue or laminate it to a piece of black card stock for contrast and strength.
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