• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Logitech “floated” the idea of subscription mouses (aka: tried to see how bad the market resistance would be). They want to do it so bad.

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      the mere process of presenting such an idea to the internet was enough to make me never buy logi-junk again

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        It’s OK you’re not missing anything, the last three Logitech mice I had died to switch failure in like 6 months so they’re not worth buying anyway

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          Which is sad. I liked the hardware I’ve had from them, but I haven’t bought new in a few years. The mouse has treated me much better than Razers I’ve had over the years. Sad that their quality has (predictably) started circling the drain as well.

          Also, what mouse or brand do you recommend buying instead?

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            4 days ago

            I like their hardware too, I still have an ancient pair of g200 headphones with mic that still work great. I use it regularly. But their mice peripherals have fallen tf off.

            Like Valmond recommend I went to a Roccat mouse - they’re a less well known Japanese brand. I’ve had mine for over two and a half years and it’s been amazing.

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              I didn’t know Roccat was less well known. Or that they were Japanese. But at least now I know what I’m looking at when my mouse finally kicks the bucket.

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            I just love the roccat kone aimo because I have lumberjack hands and every other mouse is just too small. Sadly their left click gets used quite rapidly, nothing crazy IMO but it’s a shame tossing an expensive mouse just for that (and losing the click or double clicking drives you crazy quickly, ha ha!) so I bought some microswitches from aliexpress and swapped them out in both of my mice. Fiddly but works perfectly now!

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              Yeah it irritates me that the sensors always go so soon. You’d think the tech would advance past this, but it’s been a complaint for years at this point.

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                Got my little pouch of microswitches for the forseable future :-)

                For what I found, it’s like they all use the same switches too 🤷🏼‍♀️

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                  Sounds about right. But if controllers can have hall effect to prevent stick drift (third party controllers at least), then why can’t mouse switches have something similar?