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I have an old microsoft wireless ball mouse, i have the dongle but it has ps/2 connectors (i know about ps/2 to usb but i dont want to use it as the dongle is big). Is there way to use a usb wifi card(tp-link) as the reciever and make it work?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I can understand holding on to a classic Mac mouse or something like that, but the mouse you have is pretty much generic 90s/early 2000s disposable garbage that's nothing special.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Microsoft mouse used to be absolutely top notch back then. It truly was one of their best products. I was a mac guy back then, you know when it was not popular at all, and I used an M$ Intellimouse, they were the best.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes!! I used Linux back then (still do) and I absolutely hated M$, but I loved the Intellimouse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was also on BeOS, NetBSD, and various Linux distros like YellowDog :)

NetBSD was the best cause it was the only distro with a native bootloader for the OpenFirmware which meant it didn't require a MacOS partition to kexec into a different kernel.

Good times!

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