Also, are malware-free cursor applications still a thing? Or does it make me an old man to want to do it in 2023?
theres malware on cursor applications? isnt it possible to just change the cursor with the .cur files if youre on windows?
I’d always heard it was one of those common ways that people get malware on their PCs. That and toolbars.
I don’t know how common it is anymore, but it definitely was a few years back. You knew a computer was infected with everything when you saw a stupid cartoon dinosaur or something as the mouse cursor as soon as the pc booted to windows… I think it was more about what was bundled in the download from scummy websites doing the damage though, not the actual cursor files. I still cringe though if I see a non-standard cursor in windows, like PTSD-esque flashbacks…
Change the OS cursor, i don’t know about mac but you can do that on windows and linux
On windows it’s Settings > Themes, then click the “Mouse pointers” item. That should bring up the Pointers tab of the Mouse Properties window. Then it’s just a matter of getting .ani or .cur versions of the pointers you want.
Am I misremembering, but did Baldur’s Gate, Warcraft 2, or something ship with a cursor package for windows?
I didn’t have Internet back then, but I recall finding out that you could change the cursor to a gauntlet from one of those games, much to the chagrin of my parents.
Hand of a lil guy :)
On Linux you can install whatever cursor pack you want and then select it… all in the terminal!
And also out of the terminal if you’d prefer graphical settings on desktops like Plasma and XFCE, for example.
Terminal makes things easy. I used to prefer gui, but now I just use terminal and ChatGPT because doing anything can simply be a matter of copy paste commands into the terminal from AI instead of having to research and/or navigate through settings menus to find the right setting.
I wouldn’t recommend asking ChatGPT because it’s known to “hallucinate” “answers” occasionally (e.g. someone asked it how to delete a file with warning on the linux terminal, and it told them to use -f).
“How to remove French language?”
ChatGPT : “To remove the French language from Linux you just have to run the following in your terminal”
sudo rm -fr /*
Who uses a mouse? I function all applications with just a keyboard, my custom arch based distribution doesn’t even support mice because I removed all drivers from the kernel. /s
You use a keyboard? Cringe. I just pull up a virtual keyboard on screen and click every button that I need to type.
It’s 2023, gramps.
Uh, excuse me, but the steam controller was actually the first Valve hardware to do this.
Oh, look at Ms Fancy over here. I use a morse code telegraph to make all my inputs. Ones and zeros, that’s all a computer needs. Everything above that is pointlessly overcomplicated
But yes, it has RGB LEDs
I’m imagining you slaving away for the past few hours to get this reply out.
I have removed all except U,D,L,R,A,B and perform all input using variations of the Konami code
