• Shawdow194@kbin.run
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    2 months ago

    Wait is this an onion?

    Arent mouse already “forever” mice. Like what goes wrong in them? I’ve never had a wired laser mouse fail, and the batteries ones I usually lose the adapter or let it corrode before the mouse actually fails

    And if anything I only buy a new mouse for aesthetics. Or when their old mouse is grody

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      The switches eventually fail, but most mice use the same Omron switches and they are easy enough to replace if you know how to solder. The teflon skates wear out too, but you can find replacement for most name brand mice online.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Or when their old mouse is grody

      That’s planned obsolescence. They cover the mouse in soft touch plastic that turns to glue in 5 years. It ensures that you buy a new mouse every 5 years while claiming they are reliable.

      I read that acetone transforms the gluely soft touch coating to hard plastic. I did it to my old Logitech when it got grody and it is still not grody after 20 years.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        They cover the mouse in soft touch plastic that turns to glue in 5 years

        This is my pet peeve of modern electronics in general. Even my $3000 work-supplied Dell laptop is coated in this soft touch material that will inevitably turn into a gooey mess after a few years 🤦‍♂️

        Also own a second-hand tablet computer that feels disgusting and sticky to hold because the soft touch coating has degraded so badly on it 😭

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          I fixed a bunch of ThinkPad laptops that were turning into sticky messes, I put a movie on, used a whole bunch of goo off and stripped all of the sticky plastic off of the devices. Now they feel great

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      2 months ago

      I’ve had buttons stop working. The mechanism inside that registers the click is a mechanical switch and they eventually die

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      I had the wheel button stop working on it once, it was still usable, just annoying, when I needed to do a middle click.

      Also that happened after a decade of use.

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      By “forever” they mean you will be paying them forever for the privilege of using the mouse. Unless you break it that is, or they feel like they no longer want to support it at which point it will likely become a forever brick.