• LarkinDePark
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      I know people who voluntarily chose to pay a subscription fee to Google for their doorbell.

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      I could almost see that for highly specialized expensive hardwareyou don’t need longterm.

      A mouse is not that. Who the hell is subscribing to a mouse. Not some kind of monthly mouse subscription for people really into them, but just the right to keep using the one mouse you have. That is insane.

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    “Hey everyone, we found an upgrade to planned obsolescence: we call it planned obsolescence 2.0. Instead of designing hardware to break and require replacing after a few years, we’ll design the software to break every month! We’ll say it’s an upgrade. It’ll reduce our material costs and we can pass those savings on to the shareholder.”

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      G5 was perfect. The fact they make a new version every couple of years and every one is worse than the last, instead of simply keep making G5, is so telling.

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    Consider this: i buy mice from AliExpress for 8 PLN and they aren’t much worse and more reliable than the fuckshit from Logitech or other Razer which cost 300 PLN.

    Addendum: i have heavy hands for mouse and keyboard (and i’m actually old enough to learn typing on a mechanical typewriter which certainly didn’t help) so i destroy them pretty fast and if one or another can last more than a year, it’s good enough in my book. The expensive ones certainly can’t last more then the cheapest ones.

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    Maybe they should first start producing mice again that are usable at all (without getting RSI from just looking at them from a distance).

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    Subscriptions will be the death of me, I will have to start pirating like all the shit I watch just to afford a fast food meal like once a week smh

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    Maybe they should first start producing mice again that are usable at all (without getting RSI from just looking at them from a distance).