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Lemminary ,

I already pay a subscription when I have to keep buying the hardware designed to break. I don’t think I’ve ever had a middle mouse button working for long.

It’s so much bullshit and it’s getting shittier.

Lost_My_Mind ,

It’s so much bullshit and it’s getting shittier.

Unclear if you’re talking about technology, or life.

Lemminary ,

Hmm… yes.

victorz ,

I don’t understand what you all are doing with your mice. I’ve had mine for years, and the one before it, years. I only changed because I wanted to upgrade, too.

Meanwhile I’m always on Discord with my buddy complaining that his mouse broke, again. This mf fingers must weigh a fk ton bruh.

SkaveRat ,

lots of people smack their mice on the table out of rage.

Do that a lot, and they will not last very long

Lemminary ,

I wish it were my unmanageable rage, but it’s usually a regular old click that does them in. Maybe I have superhuman strength in my index finger and haven’t noticed it.

Lemminary ,

I just like to middle-click things. I opened a Logitech mouse once and found out that the bridge that presses the button internally is way thinner than a toothpick and my frail little fingers are stronger than it for inexplicable reasons. :(

apt_install_coffee ,

If it’s a G502/702, they’ve got a very fucky scroll wheel & middle click; it’s actually a lemon, but since nothing else works with the wireless pads they’re the only options.

Lippy ,
@Lippy@fedia.io avatar

I can vouch for that. For me it's the scroll wheel.

I've been through a Logitech G703 and a Corsair Sabre Pro and both failed the same way. I've also seen it happen to a Razer Deathadder Essential. The shitty mechanical encoder goes janky after a few months and basically makes scrolling unusable, as scrolling the mouse wheel either doesn't get detected or is interpreted as going the opposite direction. Yeah they can be 'fixed' by either blasting air into it which sometimes works for a bit or worst case, soldering on a replacement encoder, but even that's just a temporary fix as it's only a matter of time before that fails too. I can't deal with unreliability like that.

Older mice more commonly used to use optical encoders which tend to last much longer but finding a new mouse with an optical encoder isn't as easy. I finally broke down and got a Zowie the other day which should hold up a bit better in theory and only time will tell. I feel silly spending so much on a mouse, but I just want one that works.

empireOfLove2 ,
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

An idea for a mouse I will never buy in a million years

Wistful ,
@Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I really hope there aren’t people stupid enough to buy or even want that.

astropenguin5 ,

To be fair they only said having a subscription for the accompanying software was a ‘possibility’, not that it would need one, and that it would be likely to be in the ~$200 price range, and with upgradeability and repairability in mind, as well as reliant on software updates.

Honestly depending on how much they lean toward the subscription and/or software update reliance having a mouse designed to last a lifetime and be upgradeable and repairable would be nice, even at a rather higher price point.

nick ,

I’ll pass

pineapple_pizza ,

Lol I actually had to check to make sure this wasn’t published on April 1st. Missed joke opportunity, this is hilarious

Boozilla ,
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

!fucksubscriptions

TheGrandNagus ,

Oh man I was hoping this would be a sub for alternatives to subscriptions, rather than just pointing out that everything is going to a subscription model.

Boozilla ,
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not against the rules of that community to post alternatives. I suspect the community members would love that.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Alternative to subscription based mouse…any other fucking mouse. Hell, I’d rather use that piece of crap they sell at walgreens for $15.99. It looks like crap, has only 2 buttons, is wired, but it doesn’t have a damn subscription.

shyguyblue ,

My Halo account name is [email protected]

Fuck you Microsoft, fuck you Logitech, if the Internet goes down, I’m fucked…

ArbiterXero ,

I always give “[email protected]”

That way datasets are harder to correlate and I know who leaked 😝

H4mi ,

That’s what I’ve been doing since 2002. If I get spam, I set up a forward to their customer service.

eronth ,

Oh neat, I think I might subscribe to that community.

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