I Should Listen Better
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When I talk to myself (or post).[^] So I needed a new wireless mouse and bought a Lenovo from NewEgg. I figured they're a big company (Lenovo) with a reputation to uphold. So, it arrives and I didn't put it to immediate use - but when I did I found two annoying things. One was how long it took to get a driver* (needed to download by Win7). OK - after quite a few minutes the driver was found and loaded. Turn on mouse: red led flickers on, then off. Motion sensitive? No, the damn piece of junk had, as usual, had not the least bit of QC. The on/off switch is the problem. Even before opening it (a single screw) I observed the poor solder joint to one of the battery contacts (+). Considering what it costs, return shipping to replace with even more junk, I will eat this burn and have a very long memory of it (and will not, as with this email, hesitate to share my experience as a warning to others. * This is my "dirty" PC - so if the driver's Chinese spyware they get nothing as I log into nothing on it.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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When I talk to myself (or post).[^] So I needed a new wireless mouse and bought a Lenovo from NewEgg. I figured they're a big company (Lenovo) with a reputation to uphold. So, it arrives and I didn't put it to immediate use - but when I did I found two annoying things. One was how long it took to get a driver* (needed to download by Win7). OK - after quite a few minutes the driver was found and loaded. Turn on mouse: red led flickers on, then off. Motion sensitive? No, the damn piece of junk had, as usual, had not the least bit of QC. The on/off switch is the problem. Even before opening it (a single screw) I observed the poor solder joint to one of the battery contacts (+). Considering what it costs, return shipping to replace with even more junk, I will eat this burn and have a very long memory of it (and will not, as with this email, hesitate to share my experience as a warning to others. * This is my "dirty" PC - so if the driver's Chinese spyware they get nothing as I log into nothing on it.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
Everything is Chinese junk today. Everything. No company has a reputation to uphold they are all just trying not to perish first in the face of a dying market and wildly stiff competition to stay afloat. This problem extends beyond the lowly mouse all the way up to the automobile and household appliances. Coders alone will not prop up the pc marketplace and make obsolete notion of quality come back. It's gone. Mobile devices (more Chinese junk) have the day.
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Everything is Chinese junk today. Everything. No company has a reputation to uphold they are all just trying not to perish first in the face of a dying market and wildly stiff competition to stay afloat. This problem extends beyond the lowly mouse all the way up to the automobile and household appliances. Coders alone will not prop up the pc marketplace and make obsolete notion of quality come back. It's gone. Mobile devices (more Chinese junk) have the day.
Unfortunately true. :sigh:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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When I talk to myself (or post).[^] So I needed a new wireless mouse and bought a Lenovo from NewEgg. I figured they're a big company (Lenovo) with a reputation to uphold. So, it arrives and I didn't put it to immediate use - but when I did I found two annoying things. One was how long it took to get a driver* (needed to download by Win7). OK - after quite a few minutes the driver was found and loaded. Turn on mouse: red led flickers on, then off. Motion sensitive? No, the damn piece of junk had, as usual, had not the least bit of QC. The on/off switch is the problem. Even before opening it (a single screw) I observed the poor solder joint to one of the battery contacts (+). Considering what it costs, return shipping to replace with even more junk, I will eat this burn and have a very long memory of it (and will not, as with this email, hesitate to share my experience as a warning to others. * This is my "dirty" PC - so if the driver's Chinese spyware they get nothing as I log into nothing on it.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
"A big company with a reputation to uphold" and China ... Meaningful thought breaks down at this point.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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"A big company with a reputation to uphold" and China ... Meaningful thought breaks down at this point.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
Just go buy a Logitech wireless mouse. that'll work (usually) :thumbsup:
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When I talk to myself (or post).[^] So I needed a new wireless mouse and bought a Lenovo from NewEgg. I figured they're a big company (Lenovo) with a reputation to uphold. So, it arrives and I didn't put it to immediate use - but when I did I found two annoying things. One was how long it took to get a driver* (needed to download by Win7). OK - after quite a few minutes the driver was found and loaded. Turn on mouse: red led flickers on, then off. Motion sensitive? No, the damn piece of junk had, as usual, had not the least bit of QC. The on/off switch is the problem. Even before opening it (a single screw) I observed the poor solder joint to one of the battery contacts (+). Considering what it costs, return shipping to replace with even more junk, I will eat this burn and have a very long memory of it (and will not, as with this email, hesitate to share my experience as a warning to others. * This is my "dirty" PC - so if the driver's Chinese spyware they get nothing as I log into nothing on it.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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When I talk to myself (or post).[^] So I needed a new wireless mouse and bought a Lenovo from NewEgg. I figured they're a big company (Lenovo) with a reputation to uphold. So, it arrives and I didn't put it to immediate use - but when I did I found two annoying things. One was how long it took to get a driver* (needed to download by Win7). OK - after quite a few minutes the driver was found and loaded. Turn on mouse: red led flickers on, then off. Motion sensitive? No, the damn piece of junk had, as usual, had not the least bit of QC. The on/off switch is the problem. Even before opening it (a single screw) I observed the poor solder joint to one of the battery contacts (+). Considering what it costs, return shipping to replace with even more junk, I will eat this burn and have a very long memory of it (and will not, as with this email, hesitate to share my experience as a warning to others. * This is my "dirty" PC - so if the driver's Chinese spyware they get nothing as I log into nothing on it.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
Everyone, including me, should listen better. I second the guys that recommend Logitech. I have been using several on my different machines for years now. The only problem I have had was when I forget to change the batteries. :omg: As far as "Chinese Junk" I thought that was a kind of boat. :-O Look at all the great things China produces and have given the world, Like Covid! I still believe it is a biological warfare tool that escaped the Lab. :mad:
Hats off to everyone that produce quality products. Cranky old men need to vent sometimes!