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Yeah, as I said I think there was a batch of bad switches (used for buttons in mouse devices) which were used in a big span of products, because there are many others who've mentioned this issue too.
I had bought a brand new logitech (portable/wireless) (logitech trackball m570[^]) that I had only used rarely with my other laptop and only used it at home (didn't get lugged around and banged around) but the buttons lasted less than one year. I would take it apart and clean it and it would work for 1 week then stop clicking unless I clicked it twice or slapped it hard.
I was afraid but I bought another of the exact ones again but this time I made sure I bought it at a local store (Target) and I've been using this one for over 2 years now and it still works great.
(I'm on my laptop now and using it.)
Also, it is possible that buying some items online actually gets us consumers pointed to "exact" counterfeit products -- listed as logitech but is some other company churning out garbage. I always wonder about that.
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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[^]
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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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. 
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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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That's cool. I might've been in those discussions. I sure eat mice. But I bet I use them enough that UL could rent me as durability test equipment.
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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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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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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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Anyone else having problems with CP today ( I know OG has) I keep getting
Unfortunately it seems that our error handling page has, ironically, an error. It's going to be one of those days
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
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Yes, I've had the "error page error" page, complete with disturbing 3D-rendered Bob, several times so far this morning.
Looks like Chris picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue[^]! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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He's(Bob not Chris) holding a wrench in one hand and what appears to be a beer in the other.
Drinking on the job...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified yesterday.
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It's called the Ballmer Peak
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yes, me too - seems to right itself after a couple of refreshes
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Yes, I was about to post in the Bugs and Sugs forum about that.
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Yup, had that aswell.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
MessageBox.Show(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature)
? $"This is my signature:{Environment.NewLine}{_signature}": "404-Signature not found");
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On the plus side, it did reduce the amount of spam CP catches every day.
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One of the servers went belly-up this morning. A quick talking to and it's all good again.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is it a Windows server Chris ?
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
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Hamster RTOS.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Sigh.
Yes.
If there was a nice migration from webforms to Blazor we'd be on Linux. But...no. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks
It is 10:30 AM here in Arizona 5/2/24
NO CP in my in box I never panic with this site
always a reliable explanation
Thanks for my daily dose of Tech News and Views from neat people
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not now 10:37 CDT
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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So I need VS2015. I have a project using it on a secure server, and I need to replicate the dev environment. I do my search, I login, I get to the "Your Downloads and Product Keys". It shows me this:
"Visual Studio Community 2015 Not available 6/27/2016"
If it's not available, why prick tease me? And this is the company assuring me that all of the updates they push out are for security. Right.... then I get an ad "inclusion is innovation." Well that's useful - not.
Wow, so, I despise edge. Trying to download opera - the file gets dumped to "operasetup.exe isn't commonly downloaded..." and edge renames it to something bogus. I have to rename it to a .exe to get it to install. What drivel.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Interesting - opera has no issue finding the download.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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