On Thursday 08 May 2025 12:42:38 pm gene heskett wrote: > > On 5/8/25 09:33, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first > >> suspect > >> would be the mouse hardware. > >> > >> If the problem mouse is the wireless one, I'd also suspect the driver for > >> the > >> wireless mouse. > > Or the battery. Or the neighbour's microwave oven ;-) > > The latter however would demonstrate only when the oven is actually in use. > > One would be amazed at the leakage of a microwave oven door with worn > hinges has. > > We as broadcasters are required to survey our transmitters for leakage > at license renewal times, checking for leakage high enough to sense > warmth, but with a calibrated instrument. Several ovens have been > detected that far exceeded the leakage stds in our lunch rooms. Any > engineer worth his paycheck checks his lunchroom microwave while > checking his transmitters. BTDT. A common 29 dollar ir thermometer > like I use for cooking food will also go nuts in the presence of such > leakage. > > > > > Cheers > > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
If I happen to be sitting in the kitchen here when the microwave is in use, and I happen to be doing stuff on my phone that interacts with my hearing aids by way of bluetooth, the leakage from the microwave stomps on the bluetooth signal pretty good, much of the time... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
