The Customizable Mad Catz RAT 8+ Optical Mouse and Linux

📅 May 8, 2019
It blinks! I pulsates! It offers high precision! It’s back!

The Mad Catz R.A.T.7 and the M.M.O.7 are without a doubt the best computer mice that I have ever used, and they continue to work to this day.

However, after a few years of constant use, buttons are becoming loose, and plastic is becoming sticky. What better excuse to acquire a new mouse?

Mad Catz is back with an improved RAT line of eight different models. With the Mad Catz RAT 8+ being closest to the original R.A.T.7 that I adore so much, I decided to purchase the 8+ for myself and see how well it performs with today’s Linux Mint 19.1.

Wow! Am I glad I did!

The Samsung PRO Endurance MicroSD and Linux

📅 May 7, 2018
“A microSD card is a microSD card, right?”

With so many microSD cards available, what features could one card offer that are superior to another? That depends upon the application.

Needing a microSD card upgrade for write-intensive purposes, I tried the Samsung PRO Endurance 64GB and 128GB microSD cards that are designed especially for continuous writing and supposedly offer better protection against the elements.

These are newer cards, so do they work with Linux?