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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Hey consumers! Would you like a customizable function button that's actually not customizable? Can we get VC money in the chat?!1/?!?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought this might be satire so I visited the logitech website and yep its real.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Would be more useful if you could change the keybind.

Hell, even if you could change it to Copilot. Copilot can be bad, but I don't expect Logitech to have the resources to make a better AI than Microsoft...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I expected nothing less from Logitech

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe that is an L and it plays random Weird Al songs when pressed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Click They see me mowning my lawn

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He looked at me. And I looked at him. And he looked at me. And I looked at him. And he says what did you want again?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

🎵This song is just six words long🎵

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Likely it's as simple as a pop up window with UI dedicated for constructing text with ChatGPT. Very useful, nothing more.

My guess is that you can reassign a different command just like other logi mice.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Turbo... It's that damn "turbo" again but now AI

In the eighties "turbo" was all the rage and I kid you not, everything had the label "turbo" on it. Now it will be "AI" all over things. Hold on to your hats boys and girls who were not alive in the eighties, it's gonna be wild...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Some games/software expected/relied on a certain CPU speed to run correctly. If your computer was faster than that, the software would run too fast. The turbo button let you toggle between the maximum speed your computer could go, and the speed that the software needed/expected in order to run normally.

Basically, there was an actual reason for the turbo button, it wasn't just marketing on computers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

note: on most computers, it worked the opposite to how one would think. Turning it on slowed your cpu to around 33 MHz

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Indeed. As a silly example, I had a Pacman clone game that ran based on CPU cycle speed. I needed to turn the in-game speed setting way down and toggle turbo off to make it slow enough to be playable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember. The turbo on my 386 didn't make it faster. It made non turbo mode slower.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Totally makes sense, the non-turbo was always an eco-mode

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope you need a 500mb driver to use it too with an installer that pops up every reboot, even if you press cancel.

Otherwise, it's clear that it fails at being a mouse

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, logitech comes with a unified receiver driver, new unified app i forget the name of, logitech g hub, logitech options - and you'll be forced to use a combination of at least 2 and likely 3 of those to setup a mouse.
As a bonus, the mouse won't care to remember what button maps where, if used on a device without said software.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

A cheap shit MSI Interceptor mouse that I used for 10 fucking years and bought for chum change could remember it's settings because it had persistent memory on device

And Logitech is still scamming the fuck out of people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Will it move the mouse for me?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I got one for work. It literally just pastes into ChatGPT

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

If you're going to make a button maybe a switch that doesn't double click after a month of use would be better?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope it's patented so we can just avoid Logitech.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nestle probably has a patent for 'purifying' mountain water

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about the ability to set a specific dpi at the touch or hold of a button? I don't need to cycle through six settings, just allow me to toggle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's on any of their other mice, but Logitech does have a DPI shift button on the G502. You hold it down to switch to an alternate DPI and letting go returns it to you normal setting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That sounds better then what I have run into, so thanks!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Pure AI hype

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