So, so can anyone recommend a wired track pad. Bluetooth sucks monkey nuts.

All I can find online are jelly comb, Vogek and Logitech which all seem to be sold out everywhere.

Ergonomics. I've found even with an upright mouse my shoulder and elbow getting sore so I got an apple magic touch trackpad. It's fantastic and really comfortable to use. When it works. Once a day or so it drops connection and I have to spend 30 minutes futzing with blueman to get it to work again.

Get modern Bluetooth on both ends. Then it doesn’t suck, duh.

@bagfox do you think just getting an external Bluetooth would do it? The laptop is pretty old I guess...

@DasKoder if it has USB 3 and you look closely at the specs, sure.

Had a similar problem that an old BL dongle didn’t reach ~5 meters through a wood wall and a newer BL stick plugged into USB3 solved the problem.

@DasKoder Regular bluetooth shouldn't drop out like that, but it's kinda an old standard - unfortunately it hasn't really been replaced or developed significantly, which has led to companies implementing their own crappy proprietary things instead.

You *might* be able to fix it with a more modern bluetooth setup, but depending on the issue (if it's some kind of external interference for instance) I wouldn't want to guarantee that'd solve it. If it doesn't bug you, wired might still be best.

Though I have to say, you're the first person I've known to want a trackpad over a mouse. I can't stand the things, I find them way more uncomfortable to use. Each to their own I guess!

You could rip a trackpad off a laptop and convert it to usb.

@electrineer hunh... I didn't know that was a thing:

https://hackster.io/frank-adams/...

Not sure my soldering skills are good enough. Just about managed to assemble my keyboard from a kit with full instructions and even then I made mistakes