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Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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...and they assume that the pointing device is a mouse.

inspiration: I'm using a trackball with my left hand because of a broken button. The pointer shape doesn't make sense since i'm not clicking with my right index finger.

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[–] 20 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Windows used to have a left handed pointer unless I am mandala’d again

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    On the left margin of word documents, your cursor changes to left handed, to help the mouse not cover content when selecting stuff near the border.

    You can still change the mouse pointer to be this way by default, as well

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Side note, I watched a video about how Mandela effect is maybe the most American concept ever. So many people kinda ignored/forgot that a guy won the Nobel Prize and was president of a major country for several years, or were never taught it because he's black. Even more couldn't be bothered to pay close enough attention to the spelling of a popular author's name (also foreign). People would rather think that there is some supernatural mystic shared memory gap experience rather than believe we're idiots.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I thought the whole Mandela effect/Berinstain Bears thing was tongue in cheek satire about our faulty memories, but then again I thought flat earth was tongue in cheek satire.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's how I treat it. I often use the phrase when I'm surprised to learn I remembered something wrong. I don't actually believe I've traveled to an alternate dimension.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I hope you guys are right and most people use it that way, and some small instances it's kinda funny. But I fear the danger of being able to handwave away more important information as "it's weird how our brains do that!" instead of crap, I need to pay more attention. Maybe a case by case thing I dunno.

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