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unusable mouse (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Wow, you're super early to the party.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

This has ruined my week - the mere thought that people actually brought this drives me insane.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You laugh now, but let me see you find a better spot for a cable!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

…where do all the wired mice put it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I assume it was sarcasm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You have a very strange sense of humor.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

So does apple

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

They must have thought that people would buy two to have one while the other charged

[+] [email protected] -6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Have been using that mouse for almost a decade and this literally never has been an issue.

If you really somehow manage to drain the battery to zero you can just plug it in for 5 minutes and it will work for the rest of the day. Fully charged it lasts for months.

Complaining about the design it is a purley manufactured issue by people that never used one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Even if we put the charging issue aside for a minute (it's still stupid) the mouse flipped upside down (and the mere fact that you are constantly reminded of it) looks objectively much worse than if there were a charging port visible on the upper side.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

So because of a dumb design decision that they could have easily avoided if they designed a good product, you lose 5 minutes of your time waiting on your peripheral to charge.

You could just have bought a decent mouse and never had that issue, with no drawbacks in any other way, shape or form.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ironically, the only time in my adult life when not being able to use the mouse on my computer for 5 minutes would've been a major disruption to me was when I had a Mac.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Good thing there is plenty of other mice available for people that can't handle a simple charging routine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You mean literally every single other wireless mouse that you can buy.

I've also used this mouse for many years, and it is infuriating when it dies and I have to stop what I'm doing and just... wait.

No other mouse requires that I adhere to a "charging routine." With other mice, I can just leave my desk. I don't have to make sure I plug my mouse in before I leave work, otherwise risking getting out of the habit and then having my work interrupted by a hilarious (I know it's hilarious because my coworkers laugh at me when it happens) design flaw.

I fixed the problem though. I had a wired mouse tucked away that I could use for a day rather than do the 2 minute charging shuffle when my magic mouse died.

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