• tyler@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    Such an inefficient way to do mouse movements. You can literally use an esp32 or 8266 and put a program on it that tells it to act like a mouse, plug in your mouse and now your mouse moves itself!

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      6 days ago

      There’s some advantages to the manual method. I have done this, and I find that the software mouse shows up as multiple devices with typically an additional serial device for programming.

      If you’re doing this for something like a work computer, it’s preferable not to have unusual devices get logged.

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        6 days ago

        I am pretty sure you can program it to only be a single device, just don’t hit the reset button to force a bootloader.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      Remmina (Linux RDP client) has this builtin (called mouse_jitter), but it doesn’t seem to work with more than one simultaneous connections. Still, it’s a live saver if the remote system is configured to go into standby when idle.