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"Balking at the $50+ charge for turnkey assembly, I opted to take the financially responsible route and pay $200+ for a hot-air rework station to solder it myself." Yeah, I feel this :)
I don’t understand why Logitech did not add the free spinnig scroll wheel to the Ergo? It is hard to go back from that but the Ergo is overall an excellent mouse. I just wish it was wired…
Battery lasts like 2 months, why would you want that?
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You know, for years I have been collecting power tools without having an immediate use for them - because they were for sale, or just because, you know, they're power tools. And a lot of them ended up just sitting on my workshop shelf, some of them never made it out of the box they came in. But then we bought a new house and I started renovating it. I think I have probably used every single tool I ever bought by now,…
I counter by asking if renting them would have saved you money. It's what I do when I need tools I don't usually use
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You know, for years I have been collecting power tools without having an immediate use for them - because they were for sale, or just because, you know, they're power tools. And a lot of them ended up just sitting on my workshop shelf, some of them never made it out of the box they came in. But then we bought a new house and I started renovating it. I think I have probably used every single tool I ever bought by now,…
I've had this happen a couple of times now. There's definitely some jobs where I looked around and realized I'd used just about every tool I have. I think the only disappointment at the moment is my Makita rotary drywall cutter - a reciprocating multi tool is just so much easier to control and makes nice straight cuts easily. Still waiting for the welder to have its moment though.
I still haven't figured out why they no longer make wired trackballs. The thing never moves, why do I need it to be wireless?
When you say "they", do you mean Logitech or Big Mouse in general? Because I have wired trackballs from both Logitech and Kensington, and have for many years. You can pry my Kensington Orbit from my cold, dead hand.
> My absolute favorite mouse is the MX Ergo from Logitech. I switched to using Logitech's MX Vertical mouse and I love it. There was a learning curve period, especially when it came to finer grained movements, but I'm totally used to it now and it feels much more comfortable and natural to me that any other mouse I've used. It has a USB-C port and I can switch between 3 different Bluetooth connections (press a button…
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Yeah... apparently the MX Anywhere 3S uses new "silent" switches, which I was hoping might fix the issue. But I've found one post complaining about bad switches on the Anywhere 3S and a few complaining about the MX Master 3S (which uses the same switches?). I'm sticking with my current mouse for now, since I know it's quirks.
I have a couple of 2s/3s. I like the 2s feel better. I like the 3s USB C portable better.
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Had to use my old TI 89 one day. Haven't used it in 10 years. Took it out of storage, put in 4 AAA usb-c rechargable batteries, worked like a charm. Could you do the same with your hard to replace custom battery? Any consumer electronic using standard format batteries is superior by default. Because 10 or 20 years from now, it still have brand new full batteries lying around.
I have an early digital video camera with a genius design. It came with a custom rechargeable cell in the battery compartment. But the compartment _also_ supports regular AA batteries.
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Don’t current Kensington trackballs have this layout as well?
They do, but I've had severe quality/lifetime issues with them. Three Kensington trackballs, two different models, all three lasted under a year for me.
Which models did you have problems with, and what went wrong?