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Chris -- 2025-05-10
What would it mean? Would we be trying to control a pixel or cursor which would be the mote? (btw, welcome to the forum, guitarman!)
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“Mote control” definitely seems to have achieved a limited bit of currency online—some users write ”’mote” with an apostrophe, making it clear that it’s not just a typo. Guitarman, is your son old enough to have picked this up from someone else?
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Might there be influence from “mute control� (Plenty of examples on the web: most seem legitimate.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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