Disconnecting Mouse Moves (opens in new tab)

Here’s yet another ‘mouse’ story, these devices seem to be much more tricky to handle than they look, at least for me. So here’s the story: For the past few years, I’ve had this very strange behavior that when traveling, my mouse would work better on some surfaces than others. Particularly, when I would lift the mouse, move it and then put it down again, it would, on some surfaces, take a few seconds before it was working again. For several years I blamed this on the reflectance of the surfac...