What was up with that? Why did it do that?
I might be wrong, but I think that’s due to crappy mouse sensors/firmware.
With teams/idle checking, these days, I almost wish everyone had one of those to keep PCs active all the time.
You might be interested in these things called mouse jigglers, they range from a tiny USB dongle that simulates a mouse, to motorised movement pads that you can place under a real mouse, which would be undetectable by software.
PS: You’re welcome. ;)
Just be careful using them at work as there are other methods to detect if someone is working or gaming the system and it could get you fired (source: fired someone for using one of these)
Just curious: What is the basis of firing people using these? I mean, what’s the justification, public or otherwise, for saying this is not allowed?
I use an autohotkey script for something similar myself, mainly so the laptop doesn’t fall asleep while I’m waiting for something. I don’t really care about what my employer may or may not think about it though, as I handed in my notice last month.
This alone wasnt the issue. They weren’t getting their work done and they would never respond when they showed they were online. Respondes would be 2-4 hours later and always some excuse of “oh I didn’t notice the message”. When we discovered that they had this and weren’t doing work because, well they weren’t doing anything, they were gone.
Ah, ok. That makes sense; the wiggler was seen more as proof than the issue itself.
While I do not condone stealing time and not doing your job, for anyone who has a job without a lot of work that still requires you to look “busy” and are wondering how to get around the “people are suspicious because it says I’m online but I wasn’t responding” issue, set up a meeting for the time you’re up from your computer so teams will indicate you’re busy. Probably won’t work in a super small team where everybody knows whoever would be in a meeting with you, isn’t, though.
There has been one time I needed to keep a computer and stop the screen saver, I had no access to the settings but realized that if you just play a video in WMP or on YT the screen saver never activates, and you never need too install anything.
Yeah, the USB ones are an interesting thing, I’m sure writing up the code in an Arduino is trivial these days. Sometime like
#include jiggler.h mouse.jiggle(excitation,time);
I work with hardware that uses fans though, and a piece of paper flailing in the wind does a great job if I’m running a long test.
Yes, it’s called mouse drifting. Basically, back in the early days of laser mice (which replaced the roller ball mice technology), the sensors weren’t as advanced as they are today, so they would be “detecting” slight movements. When in fact, the mouse was stationary.
I think this is probably the case. The old roller ball mice did not seem to have this problem, but early optical mice did.
Yeah, the only mouse I have that does this I’d my Logitech T-BB-18 when I take the ball out.
- noisy mouse sensor
- threshold setting.
- above threshold: must be a mouse movement.
- below threshold: its noise, ignore.
You’d usually want the threshold to be low to get more mouse sensitivity. But too low and it starts doing stuff like moving to the left with no input.
I think the only times I’ve ever personally dealt with that was when a wired mouse was slowly moving because the wire was dragging it. No idea about any other problems that could caus it.
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