PC Hardware Discovery: One of the Best Mouse Bargains on Amazon -- Infinmind Mouse

Recently, I ended up buying two mice on Amazon. One I am okay with, but the other I am ecstatic with.

The latter is the Infinmind Mouse

NOTE: See long-term update later. 

It's a simple mouse, with 4 buttons (2 regular, 2 near the thumb), but it has a couple extra tricks. It is basically a clone or tribute of Logitech's Master Mouse. 

Instead of mouse wheel "tilting" (like Logitech) to scroll sideways, there's a separate mouse scroll roller next to the thumb. 

And the mouse wheel is METAL, and it's buttery smooth, yet has a distinctive step feedback if you scroll slowly. And it will let you spin on inertia alone so you will scroll a LONG way. It's hard to describe. 

The tracking is precise, as the built-in 4 different DPI setting, from 1000 to 3000 DPI, makes my scrolling on my triple-wide desktop (I use 3 x 24 inch monitors each at 1080p) very comfortably on a space that's barely twice as wide as my mouse. 

AND this mouse is both 2.4 Ghz wireless AND Bluetooth. In fact, it's 2 channel Bluetooth (can be paired to 2 different devices) AND available in both black and white. 

It even CAME with AA alkaline batteries, so it's ready to be used immediately. 

So what's the price of this amazing mouse? 

$18.99, and there's a 16% off coupon you can clip right now.  (As of 4/15/2025)

I daresay this is better than most Logitech mice I've used. We'll see how long it lasts. But in the meanwhile, this is one of the best mouse bargains on Amazon. 

LONG TERM UPDATE: It's now June 2025, and after 2 months of using it, it's... crap. It freezes up every few minutes, that I had to power cycle it to get it to work again. And that's USING the wireless dongle! I haven't tested Bluetooth mode yet. Will check later, but this is... not good. I had to power cycle the mouse multiple times a day. That's just... "no bueno".     

Rant about PC Microphones: Specifically, the search for a Shock Mount

To optimize audio quality of a PC recording, one of the things that was emphasized was the necesity of a "shock mount", which are basically isolation for the microphone from the desk, because any sort of vibration on the desk can be transmitted to the microphone, thus affecting audio quality. And we're talking about condenser mics, not the tiny boom mics on headsets. 

Unfortunately, some mics are so niche or so unsupported, you cannot get shock mounts for them, or at least there are none advertised for them. One such is the Joby Wavo Pod. With MSRP of $99 launched back in 2022, Amazon is already discounting them to as low as $19.99. 

However, there seems to be no shock mount for it, until you look up its diameter, which is nowhere to be found on Joby's website. (FWIW, it's 60mm) Most shock mounts are the "tube" type, where two half pipes form a tube tightened by elastic shock cord in a complex pattern, which provides friction to secure the mic as well as isolation from the mounting "ring". 

You *can* find 55-65mm shock mounts on Amazon, but they cost almost as much as the mic itself... starting at $15. Then you realize those are not really compatible because the microphone has controls on the body, and the shock mount would cover those up. 

You have to get a VERTICAL shock mounts, which basically goes between the mounting "bolt" and the "nut" on the microphone itself. Which completely bypasses the friction mount problem. 

RANT: Presenting opinions as facts

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When presenting information, it is VERY important not to present opinions as facts. It ruins the presenter's credibility otherwise. Yet you see people everything failing to separate facts from opinion, and tries to prove an opinion with more opinions. Here is one example:

"No. A [no]CD crack is not illegal. It's just a simpler way to play your games if the game requires you to have the CD in the drive every time you play. If the disk is scratched and isn't working properly, then it would be highly unfair to need to purchase the game all over again. [no]CD cracks just bypass a ridiculous, unneeded, annoying process.

CD cracks are available LEGALLY at gamecopyworld.com"
-- larry.riverside, on Yahoo!Answers, in response to "Are no-CD cracks illegal?"

The problem here is out of the five sentences, there are no less than FOUR opinions, or hypothesis, when there should be only one, the hypothesis that the subsequent facts are supposed to prove or support. You can't prove an opinion with more opinions.

• "CD cracks is not illegal" is the hypothesis and an opinion. That is what he's trying to prove.
• "CD cracks makes your life simpler, so you don't have to insert the media every time" is a fact. 
• "If you damage your CD media, you should not have to buy the media again" is an opinion. "Should" indicates an opinion.
• "CD Crack just bypass an annoying process [copy protection]" is an opinion. If he had written "CD crack bypasses copy protection", that would be a fact.
• "CD cracks are available legally at gamecopyworld.com" is an opinion. If he had written "CD cracks are available at gamecopyworld.com" that would be a fact.

The only fact presented, "CD crack makes your life simpler", does NOT support "CD cracks are not illegal". The two are not relevant. The fact does not prove the opinion. There is no "A, therefore B" causality.

In fact, if you rewrite the last two opinions as facts, by taking out the editorial adverbs, they do not support the hypothesis either.

"CD crack bypasses copy protection" does not prove "CD cracks are not illegal".

"CD cracks are available at gamecopyworld.com" does not prove "CD cracks are not illegal".

Thus, the entire argument is a big FAIL.

I have to make one thing clear: this is NOT about the morality of noCD cracks. This is about LEGALITY of noCD cracks. The fact are simple: noCD cracks are in fact illegal, as they violate the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. I think there are some circumstances where noCD cracks are justified, but that is an opinion, not a fact.