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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:55:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I wonder how hard it would be to have a wireless mouse with two receivers paired to it. Like, only one is active at a time, but it can be used with either computer

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     emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:55:14 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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     @foone mouse that has two USB cables and outputs on both of them simultaneously

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:55:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     worse idea: one mouse with two USB cables, and some smarts to make it pick whichever one is powered on

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:55:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     like I know there are mice out there that can pair to multiple devices, with like a switch to select between them.
     I mean more a mouse that is automatically connected to whichever of the two receivers is on

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:55:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm wondering because I have two laptops I switch between. They're never on at the same time (I only have one lap) but I keep having to disconnect and reconnect my wired mouse

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     emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:56:04 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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     • Ian Douglas Scott

     @ids1024 @foone yeah I don't think you could do it by just splitting the usb cable, enumeration requires bidirectional communication even if the HID reports are unidirectional

     but you could probably do it with sufficient determina--no, I will not start another dumb project, bad emily

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     Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:56:05 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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     • emily, blinkenlight witch

     @emily @foone Even better (i.e. worse): maybe you could jurry rig something like this with a PS/2 or serial mouse and two adapters.

     Keyboards need bi-directional communication for leds, but mice don't. Not sure about PS/2, but I think serial mice just need tx and ground.