Yeah knocking them over while active would probably not be the best, you can even hear the stress on the spindle bearings if you rotate a running hard drive. However you should be free to mount them (securely) in almost any orientation given the discussion in this old post: https://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21533&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions

It’s recommended by the easystroke dev too: https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki

Then why does the post say “we are looking” as if you are part of a group or team related to this?

Lmao this is amazing. The future is now…