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This is Upgrade, Episode 290. Upgrade today is brought to you by Indeed.

My name is Mike Hurley.

I am joined as always by Mr. Jason Snell.

Hi Jason Snell.

Hello Mike Hurley, how are you?

I'm very well, very well indeed. Today's sponsors of

Pingdom, Express VPN, Text Expander, and Uni. Jason, I have a hashtag Snow Talk question to begin

today's episode that has come from myself because every now and then what I want a question can't find an example of it

Rages and just ask it on my own and I want to know because I think this is going to be important for today's episode.

Jason what are your preferred computer input devices for controlling cursor?

So when I was in college and stuff I used a mouse like a regular old Mac mouse and I got to I got a trackball in my powerbook when I when the first powerbooks came out the pointing device wasn't a track pad it was actually a trackball and I like that and so when I got to Mac user my first actually it was my internship

There was an editor there who had a Kensington trackball,

and I really liked that.

And when she left, she left the trackball behind.

I was like, I want that, I want that.

And that was my trackball.

And I used a trackball after that. I really liked the control and the kind of big arm

gestures and not the fine like tense movements of gripping a mouse that I was just kind of like rolling the ball around on the screen.

And then the track pads, track pads happened.

And the magic trackpad happened and that was basically converted me to using a trackpad because it gave me a lot of the same

kind of feel as the trackball did and trackballs were not as good that got like weirder and worse

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