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"Oooh! we wanna help the environment! Look at how green we are! It's gonna last you a lifetime. Such quality. Such emotional investment into your personal mouse!"
Bitch! You are just inventing stupid ideas about how to turn a hardware company into a service company, because you know that is where the money is.
I'd rather just spend a few coins on a cheap mouse every 5-7 years which don't require a subscription to use and also don't bother me by asking me to update them either.
Tangential: Is there any community for mice akin to the mechanical keyboard community?
Would love to buy an alternative but every time I do any research it boils down to "razer or logitech" with everything else being orders of magnitude shittier.
Even assuming that I wasn't put off by having a subscription for a physical object, how could it possibly be financially viable for me to do that.
It would be cheaper for me to simply buy a new mouse every 4 or 5 years, and realistically I don't replace my mice that often. It's a mouse they don't really get to be that expensive even if you go for all the optional bells and whistles.
I’d be more willing to pay Logitech for a subscription to never have to touch their software again.
forever subscription, you say?
Oh no, anyway. Glad I never touched their peripherals because they're overpriced like Razer and other bigger companies.
clicking away with my knockoff OEM reliable gaming mouse
Imo software update for Mouse is not that necessarily crucial unless you had nasty bugs like Cooler Master during launching their mouse. My endgame mouse is MM712 and happy with that👍🏼
Also you can build your own mouse though iirc may be harder than building DIY keyboard (sc: built custom macropad for college project).
Vance Packard warned us, in his book, The Waste Makers.
