• Caesium@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    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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      27 days ago

      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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        27 days ago

        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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          27 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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          27 days ago

          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!

          • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            27 days ago

            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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              27 days ago

              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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                27 days ago

                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?

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                    27 days ago

                    Often it’s just a bit of dirt. Other times it wears out. My point wasn’t that it’s the same as drift, but that both are wear and tear that should be avoidable or less of a problem. Like hall effect joysticks in controllers, which are still not available on first party controllers because they want you buying new ones all the time.

                    Same thing with these switches. There has to be a better switch that makes this less of a problem or at least prevents it from happening so damn quickly.