New hardware: pedantry in action

[narcasse]

Having got hold of a new wireless keyboard and mouse setup for the sake of having a mouse with rechargeable batteries and a little cradle it sits in to recharge I did for a few minutes immediately regret my decision as my media hotkeys at the top were replaced with a small selection of rather poor options. When am I ever going to need to boot a specific website from my media panel after all? I’ve also lost my scroll button on the actual keyboard which is a slightly shame when I remember it. But most of all what urked me was the loss of my next or previous keys for my given media player of choice. Thankfully it’s easily enough to set the hotkeys that would otherwise give me Outlook or some miscellaneous website to those functions instead. It’s going to take a little getting used to since they’re on the right hand side of the media bar rather than the left but it’s manageable. The only real issue is the five button mouse where the two side keys will just function as forwards or backwards keys in my browser, since I’m used to my thumb key being my auto-minimise. I’ve remedied that by setting the scroll button click to minimise where as it just didn’t do anything on my last mouse but still I’ve now got an overtly moulded mouse with two redundant buttons.
I’m so very not fond of those ‘natural’ mouse and keyboard setups. It’s not even that I type oddly since I can touch-type and actually have a certificate for it but rather that they’re awkward and that makes me unnecessarily homicidal. Still, I’m sure I’ll adjust and anyway, it’s probably my own fault for customising everything to very specific specifications. Though I like it that way; the point being to make my system as perfectly usable for myself as it is unusable for anybody else.
The keyboard clicks too loudly as well and the angle is a little too low without feet.

And a reminder as per details in fandom_flies and via nekonexus’ useful link list; Narsus is also available here for public consumption, though currently in a quickly ported format with bugs and missing umlauts in post titles.