It sucks when they stop registering properly, but there is something satisfying about cleaning that gunk out. I have a trackball mouse at work and I clean it every day or two to keep the ball rolling smoothly. It's gross, but I like sticking the tip of a pencil in there and pulling out small lumps of gunk. And it feels especially nice to give the ball a spin after.

it was the first commercial mouse. they didn’t know.

> they didn’t know.

Didn't know what a human hand looks like?

Ah, good point, although I think gp is referring to the internal rolling ball that tracks motion. 3rd pic here https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/logitech/digimouse.shtml

i hate mice that are shaped to fill my hand. i find the constant touch on my palm irritating. the contact with the plastic surface causes me to sweat.

i loved the mice that came with sparc workstations. remember those first optical mice that needed a special metallic mousepad with a grid on them?

they were wide and flat. held with my thumb and little finger only. no other touch. that's how i use a mouse. but todays mice are all to small, so that i have to squeeze my fingers into an unnatural position.

i wish someone would design a flat and wide mouse like that again.

To you have small hands ? Almost every mouse I've seen is too small for my hands, I have this 'claw' style motion because its awkward to have the 0th joint rest against the top of the mouse.

on one website for gaming mice my hand is medium if i measure the length to the fingertip, but large if i measure the width.

if i had small hands, more mice might fit.

for a comfortable hold using only fingertips, a mouse would have to be 8-9cm wide.