Because of bad mouse buttons, this guy built his own mouse
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He's a gamer. Also, you are lucky that yours are lasting 5 - 10 years. I've had some that the buttons last 1 year on and they've had little use. I think it's possible that there was a huge batch of really bad switches that were used in mouses (mice) for a while and if you bought during that time you got ones that lasted very short time. I have some trackball mice (logitech) have lasted 30 years of daily use. It's crazy!
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raddevus wrote:
I have some trackball mice (logitech) have lasted 30 years of daily use. It's crazy!
Have you often had to do a Replacement of Mouse Balls[^]
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trønderen wrote:
Have you often had to do a Replacement of Mouse Balls[^]
I am a software dev / "engineer" so I do not understand jokes, so I will now answer this question seriously. I use trackballs and my balls stay clean so I can happily report that my balls have lasted for a very long time. :rolleyes:
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Recently, there was a discussion here about mouse buttons going bad very quickly. Just stumbled upon this video[^] of a guy who also said he has to replace his mouse every 6 mos because buttons go bad so he built his own mouse. Interesting explanation of the problem and solution.
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Recently, there was a discussion here about mouse buttons going bad very quickly. Just stumbled upon this video[^] of a guy who also said he has to replace his mouse every 6 mos because buttons go bad so he built his own mouse. Interesting explanation of the problem and solution.
Recently, I may have replaced the need for licensing a bit of software with DIY/FOSS because it just didn't make sense to me the cost for what it does. This guy builds a mouse because the manufacturers seem to suck. AI is supposed to empower people to do things. Maybe a silver lining is that quality:price improves because it must? A competitor can chatgpt+yt how to manufacture mice and probably start to put you out of business almost literally overnight.
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Recently, there was a discussion here about mouse buttons going bad very quickly. Just stumbled upon this video[^] of a guy who also said he has to replace his mouse every 6 mos because buttons go bad so he built his own mouse. Interesting explanation of the problem and solution.
At least he didn't have to live through the era of the weekly de-fluff of mouse balls.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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trønderen wrote:
Have you often had to do a Replacement of Mouse Balls[^]
I am a software dev / "engineer" so I do not understand jokes, so I will now answer this question seriously. I use trackballs and my balls stay clean so I can happily report that my balls have lasted for a very long time. :rolleyes:
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Doesn't he just - imagine being stuck in a broken down lift with him !
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
I wondered if he had speeded his voice up like some of the video, so I played it at 75% speed. It didn't sound normal so I don't think he had speeded it up, but at least it was now slow enough for my brain to keep up.
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Do you do like me and pop them in your mouth to clean them?
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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Recently, there was a discussion here about mouse buttons going bad very quickly. Just stumbled upon this video[^] of a guy who also said he has to replace his mouse every 6 mos because buttons go bad so he built his own mouse. Interesting explanation of the problem and solution.
I started such a thread not too long ago. If it's not one of the buttons, it's the scrollwheel, or the actual tracker (movement along the X/Y axis). Given his time investment...I think I'll stick with buying more. Maybe try a batch of different models, and see which lasts the longest. Lately it's been my *gaming* mouse that's started acting up, noticeably.
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Do you do like me and pop them in your mouth to clean them?
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
Wasn't there a Chef from South Park song about that?
