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Ay, that's kick ass man, congrats!
I am absolutely dreading the death of my Logitech G600. I love this mouse, I love all the stupid buttons on the side, I love the size of it, etc. But This is my 3rd one in like 12 years so I know it will die eventually and they stopped making it. The alternatives, from what I've read, don't have great support in Linux, so I might have to frankenstein this one to keep it going once the switches start to go...
Would you mind sharing the model of mouse that you have been repairing?
Trying very hard to hold back a torrent of rants about the state of tech.
You don't have to hold back if you don't want to.
It's not a new problem and not just "tech". One time I tore the entire dashboard out of an old Lincoln Aviator to replace this little plastic actuator arm that controlled one of the climate control dampers. It was clearly a bad design, especially for a vehicle that cost $74k brand new, which was very expensive at the time.
The kind of stupid stuff corporations will do to save a buck, even on supposedly "premium" products, is just ridiculous.
a vehicle that cost $74k brand new, which was very expensive at the time.
Criminy, what’s ‘very expensive’ now??
3d printing has been a miracle to me for fixing plastic things.
That's some commitment to a mouse. I have a logitec Bluetooth travel mouse from 2005. Our IT guy told me that paying $60 for a mouse was crazy and he could get me one for $7-10. But here I am 20 years later and it looks like it's new still.
That's great :)
We still have a perfectly working working Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (from 2001 or 2002, I believe it was a model with both USB/PS2). It's used & yellowed but the thing refuses to die which is more than fine with us.
It's a great skill to be able to fix stuff. I only learned it late, into my 40s... I taught myself soldering (to fix simple electronics, my first task was a pressing need to repair my beloved headphones whose jack was not working), and to sew (to mend our clothes, using a thread and needle or even a sewing machine: what an impressive device too!), and to scratch build as many of the stuff we need (to be honest, it is not that much as we try to buy as little stuff as we can and, well, I'm not that good at crafting them either :p).
It's also real sad to see so much device not being designed to last and to be maintained. Note that even old tech needs regular maintenance. The huge difference being that they were designed to be maintained. And when parts have not been available for many years... Looking at my old 1960 typewriter... Here in France, typewriters spare parts (and repair shops) are not that common.
Them not being easy to fix/upgrade is one of the two reasons why I stopped purchasing/using Apple computers a few years ago, after being their customers since the early 80s, switching to device and brands I can easily maintain (and upgrade), using standards components and basic tools.
I'm like this with my logitech m570.