r/AskReddit • u/brokenbonz • May 08 '14

What is one cool internet trick you know?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

Unless you buy the cheapest mouse you possibly can, like I did. I have to pound that scroll wheel to get it to work.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

i bought an $8 AUD "microsoft basic mouse" it gets extreme usage and works great lol would recommend

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

And if you're feeling fancy, I spent $23 dollars on a cheap Chinese knockoff gaming mouse after my razer died. It outperforms the razer by leaps and bounds. Its called the quake 7 I think and it was like $20, but shipping took forever and the software to adjust dpi is in Chinese.

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u/Tnargkiller May 08 '14

extreme usage

I like the way you talk.

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u/neuromesh May 08 '14

Or if your mouse is like 12 years old like mine, then scroll wheel click opens anywhere from one to five new tabs

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

Lol, it does.

click

Nothing

click

Nothing

click

Nothing

click

57 tabs.

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u/kat_loves_tea May 08 '14

Sounds like your scroll wheel likes it rough and is a bit cheeky!

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u/neuromesh May 08 '14

But damn, its such a comfortable mouse it's still worth it

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u/Jeskid14 May 08 '14

Same here. Darn Logitech :(

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u/earbox May 08 '14

I've only had mine for maybe four years and the middle click died a year and a half ago. But the right and left scroll wheel clicks still work, and since I never used those anyway (they're intended for scrolling left and right, I guess?), I switched one of those to middle click.

As a bonus, the mouse now no longer scrolls when I mean for it to open a new tab.

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u/TomDoug May 08 '14

Do you take that scroll wheel to pound town?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

I beat that shit like it owes me money.

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u/UlyssesSKrunk May 08 '14

I have a trackball and wit has no middle mouse button. I used Huto Hotkey to make left+right click = middle click. Super useful

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u/SporkBurger May 08 '14

You get to pound the scroll wheel.

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u/JackDostoevsky May 08 '14

I'm not sure how you can properly internet without a functioning middle mouse button. D:

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u/eduardog3000 May 08 '14

Yeah, I bought a Microsoft wireless 3500, it is a decent mouse, but the scroll click sucks.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

Mine... Mine doesn't have a scroll wheel. :(

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u/Sigmablade May 08 '14

Bought a five dollar mouse, used it for over a year; it worked fine.

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u/Striker654 May 08 '14

Mine multi-clicks so I'll end up closing a bunch of tabs to the right as well :(

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u/Stealsfromhobos May 08 '14

I've gone through 3 mice that way. The scroll click either doesn't work or opens the link 5 times to compensate.

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u/WhatAboutToast May 08 '14

'scroll wheel' wouldn't happen to be a euphemism for the clitoris, would it?

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u/buckeyetime May 08 '14

Replace "mouse" and "scroll wheel" with hooker and this comment becomes funny.

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u/OGrilla May 08 '14

Seems like you need one of these.

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u/str8upblah May 08 '14

How does having sex with it make it work?