why is this still analog?

You have a digital scroll wheel already, it's called PgUp/PgDn

>>59881125
not even close to being analog
there is a photocoupler inside that shines light through the wheel which chops up the light into a quadrature signal which the mouse then processes
there is a finite number of steps that can be detected in a rotation of the wheel

>>59881253

This is not true wtf. I've broken them and seen the thing inside.

>>59881125
What's wrong with analog scrolling?

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because not knowing where one button ends and the next one begins is awful

(also not knowing which side is forward)

>>59881270
you clearly didn't know what you were looking at, then

>>59881125

but that shit is digital you retard

>>59881253
>not analog
> wheel which chops up
> steps ... in a rotation of the wheel
if thats not mevhanical*, i dont know whats is

*op probavly didnt mean analog\digital, but mechanical vs solid sensors

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>>59881270
>>59881424

>>59881308
>not knowing which side is forward
i can understand this being an issue if you're concerned about people with cognitive disabilities or something, but for normal people identifying the front end of a mouse from the rear — even in the case of the supposedly ambiguous faggy apple mouse — isn't that hard.

>>59881125
it's not.

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>>59881125
Oh my God OP you're a genius. Let's replace the scroll wheel with the same joystick they had on the psp and the ds xl

>>59881424
why is the sky tasty? btw by tasty i mean blue

>>59881645
dsi xl didnt have a joystick
and 3ds is quite different from PSPs, not that it isn't shit as well
unless you mean the n3ds' second "joystick"

>>59882251
I meant just the flat joystick on the 3ds

>>59881125
Everything's gotta be analog at some point retard.

>>59883728
>he thinks energy is not quantized
High schoolers OUT

>>59881125
He may have a point, scroll wheels are usually the first part to get broken.
A better question is, what can be a decent alternative for scrolling? A touch zone? Two seperate buttons? How are you gonna adjust the speed? What about a clit mouse on top of your mouse?

>>59884285
I don't think there's a single replacement. We could just have different mouses with different methods (like we kinda do today, it is not like touch-mouses etc don't exist)

The scroll wheel is kinda cool kinda it is clicky (usually) yet it can still be used fir a quick movement almost like a pgup/pgdn or a touch screen scrolling thingy, it can be used either for quick scrolling though pages or for selecting a precise item in a list, etc

>>59881125
What OP may have meant is: "Why is this still mechanical?"

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>>59881645
how about this

>>59881125
Digital input devices are cancer

>>59881125

why is there not just a capacitve button that you can tap to quickly navigate, just like the up and down arrows

>>59881125
it was never analog
all it does is send instantaneous events when you turn it a certain amount either way

>>59884439
Clitmaus

>>59881253
stop generalizing. mine uses a regular mechanical encoder

>>59881125
>digital scroll wheel
>communicates by sending on/off signals when opto encoder senses motion
>not already digital
you have no idea what digital and analog even are do you?

>>59881125
Ever heard of"if it ain't broke,don't fix it"?Shit thread,op!

>>59884558
OP is an underage fag

In this thread people never heard of the Microsoft arc touch mouse

>>59881125
it just works
what the fuck do you want to replace it with?
it's designed the way it is because it is easy to use

>>59881125
it's digital in fact
lurk: rotary encoder

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>>59884285
>A better question is, what can be a decent alternative for scrolling?
I have this, and it's actually quite brilliant to use. Scrolls up and down with inertial scrolling. Tap 3 areas for 3 buttons. It even CLICKS WHILE SCROLLING, which is freaky. The only thing it doesn't have is side tilts.

For productivity, I actually prefer it to standard mouse wheels, and maybe even above Logitech's frictionless wheel. I prefer frictionless scrolling, but no detents makes middle mouse (wheel) clicking tricky.

>>59881160
I have a mechanical keyboard

>>59885708

I have one of those, I fucking love it.

If it had forward and back buttons on the side, it would be the perfect mouse.

>>59881308

>also not knowing which side is forward

The Apple logo is at the bottom you retarded fuck. How can you be this dumb?

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>>59884439
I like the keyboard nipple, but this...

>>59885708
Please tell me that when you power on your PC it arches up from flat.

>>59885725
this is bait right?
Nobody can be this stupid

>>59886306
You turn it on by bending it, if it's flat turned off

>>59886306
Have you seen the Microsoft one?
Looks like the Bayonne Bridge.

>>59884455

because that by definition would not be digital

Apple Magic Mouse doesn't have this problem :^)

>>59881308
there are plenty of legit reasons to hate on apple, this is not one of them

>>59885725
Me too, and I use Page Up and Page Down daily.

>Rotary encoders
>Analog
Lol no, but now that I think about it a nice, smooth greased pot for a scroll wheel would be nice.

>>59884487
underrated

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Who /trackball/ here?

>>59881308
that mouse is fucking GOAT. only retards who never used it hate it. it's literally sex for your hand

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>>59888901
What is this?

>>59889084
Fucking dumb frogposter can't even look at filenames

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>>59888901
Get on my level

>2017
>something that works needs to change!!!!

>>59889166
>marble grau kabel maus
Yes it's full of informations and explain so much how it works! But meh a frog hurry up you have to say something about frogposters; oh yeah you are so /g/, you must be so proud of you.

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>>59889166

>>59889215

50+ year old CAD designer detected

>>59888957
>sex for your hand
t. wanker

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>>59881125
Behold!

The best "scrollwheel" in the world.

>>59889695
>wanker
kys mohammed

>>59884516
which mouse would that be?

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>>59881253
>there is a photocoupler inside that shines light through the wheel
Maybe 50 years ago.

>>59890342
Still a digital encoder, the only analog one is >>59889733

>>59890481
i didnt say otherwise, idiot.

>>59889578
>logitech-trackman-marble-grau-kabel-maus.png
>logitech trackman marble

>>59885708
had one, loved it, lost the fucking dongle

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>>59889578
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trackball
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=logitech+trackman

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>>59890342
>implying a shitty mechanical encoder is somehow better than an optical
jesus fucking christ, you're stupid

here are the insides of an MX master mouse

>>59891374
anon, that's still a rotary encoder. it's not an optical system.

>>59888901
Got one about a month ago, it's awesome

>>59889215
I have this piece of shit sitting behind my tv for emergency input to my shitty "htpc". I hate trackballs but this one is especially bad.

>>59885774
do you look at your mouse every time you grab it?

>>59892103
Do you rotate your mouse 180º to disorient yourself?

>>59892126
kek

>>59892126
I use one these mice at work and it get's bumped and spun around at least once a week

>>59890481
Trackpoint is pressure digital encoder.

>>59892825
>once a week
Oh the horror

>>59891401
of course it's a rotary encoder, the wheel itself is part of it