"Mouse mover?" Like a whole wallplug-ass connected device that keeps you from timing out due to inactivity or other shenanigans by making your mouse move every now and then?
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That is correct. This one is right on Amazon for $19.99
Don't tell Amazon about this. They'll start calling them D&D Mini Movers and jack the price up.
Such an inefficient way to do mouse movements. You can literally use an esp32 or 8266 and put a program on it that tells it to act like a mouse, plug in your mouse and now your mouse moves itself!
There’s some advantages to the manual method. I have done this, and I find that the software mouse shows up as multiple devices with typically an additional serial device for programming.
If you’re doing this for something like a work computer, it’s preferable not to have unusual devices get logged.
I am pretty sure you can program it to only be a single device, just don’t hit the reset button to force a bootloader.
Remmina (Linux RDP client) has this builtin (called mouse_jitter), but it doesn't seem to work with more than one simultaneous connections. Still, it's a live saver if the remote system is configured to go into standby when idle.