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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @11:12AM (#32510793)
A rotary encoder can be mapped to the mouse wheel for scrolling documents, reducing the need to move the hand to the mouse to perform that.

As an aside, if that sounds interesting, you can do this with some of the cheap USB volume knobs available from Amazon, etc. that have a configuration menu, e.g. https://hackaday.com/2022/01/20/setup-menu-uses-text-editor-...

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by hypertele-Xii on Thursday August 18, 2022 @11:34PM (#32517363)
I bought one exactly like that, used AutoHotKey to configure it for various productivity applications. By default it mimics my mouse wheel, for more comfortable scrolling.
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