Understanding Undetectable Mouse Movers

What is an Undetectable Mouse mover? Why do I have one?

Well

Sometimes, in life, you have to keep your mouse going. For whatever reason, you need it moving.

I have seen videos of people working from home, but the mouse is on a moving robot vacuum to show that their teams remain green.

I would never do that.

So why do I have one?

Use it for

To be honest with you, I did use it to make my teams stay green only after I was told I would lose my job on June 30, 2024. When I got laid off, I used it to stay green while I went to the store and got lunch. You know, that sort of thing. I responded to people when they pinged me. Yes, it was from my phone, but I responded.

I also use it to keep my screen on while I move TB of stuff from one NAS to the other. I tried to do it without the mouse mover, but the connection stopped for some reason, so that is a plus.

Un-ethical

The question you might ask

Is this ethical?  Are you stealing from your job?

It all depends on how you look at it. That is a question you will have to ask yourself. If you are working during banking hours and need to run to the bank, and your job won’t let you take a longer lunch, then you do what you have to do.

As I said, I use it mostly to move files, so my hard drive won’t sleep for a while. I know I can make sure my hard drive doesn’t go to sleep, and it is set up that way. But when the screen saver comes on, the files stop transferring.

Thoughts

I enjoy this little device. It is always plugged in via a USB C / USB A cable, and there are no batteries to manage.

I picked this up on Amazon.