how not to debug a mouse
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mouse died. tragic. wiggled the wire—rgb flickered like a dying firefly, windows kept playing the "device removed" jingle like a funeral bell. tested on another pc. still dead. opened it up, hoping for a loose wire. nope. cable issue.
a normal person would sigh, accept fate, and order a new one. some would toss it in a drawer, whispering “i’ll fix it later” (they will not).
me? i downloaded a compass app to scan for electromagnetic fields. why? because science. turns out, the app was a scam (gps-based, not actual magnetometer). so i did what any sane person wouldn’t—I booted up MIT App Inventor and made my own magnetic field scanner. hovered it over the wire. found a weak spot. started surgical wire dissection.
halfway through, the wires inside were braided together like a blood pact. realized i was wasting my life. threw the mouse in a drawer. ordered a new one.
efficiency is a social construct.
