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Nikls94 @lemmy.world

12mo ago

This is what 11 years of usage to to a mouse. RIP my baby, hello baby's brother (I bought it somewhere 2014 after I fell in love with the first one)

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Is no one gonna ask? Just me? Alright.
Why are there two scroll wheels on one mouse? My mind can't handle being this confounded
- Yo, dawg. I heard you liked scrolling so we put a wheel behind your wheel so you can scroll while you scroll.
  
  Scroll wheel 2
- I've got one of these for Photoshop. I've got the front wheel set up as normal, but the second wheel is set to change the brush size. It makes working much smoother, as I don't have to use the keyboard.
- Bhopping in csgo
- I had a mouse where one was vertical and the other horizontal, but I seem to think the horizontal scroll was oriented horizontally. Having googled the mouse in the picture, it says one is programmable and suggests it starts with volume.
  
  Why wouldn't there just be a small trackball on the nose, wouldn't that be more practical?
- This mouse model was made decades ago for the time when would come the chosen one. The scroll master. He's here to equilibrate the world with his scroll powers. Zoom in, zoom out. Volume up, volume down. Everything is possible, with, THE. DOUBLE. SCROLL. WHEEL.

What's the second mouse wheel for?
- I'm curious about that too
  EDIT: nevermind, another post below has the answer: it's a programmable wheel

Looks like my 12 year old MX518 looked like when I retired it for a G400s.
- My MX518 is still sees daily use, just with a family member now. I think it's old enough to drink now (edit: not American lmao). The Logitech logo at the palm has been worn down to nothing but otherwise doesn't look too bad.
  
  Yeah, the reason I stopped using mine was because the feet wore off and I felt like it was time to upgrade to the better laser of the G400s. Otherwise, they're the same mouse. Buttons in the same place, same shape. Different color, better laser and bigger feet.

Meanwhile a good Xbox controller will only last 100 hours
- I've used my xbox 360 controller pretty much daily since 2008, mostly on my pc. Looks as good as new, but with some tiny stick drift since a couple of months back
  
  csn you get stick drift repaired?
  
  Same!! Not daily, but at least 30-40 times a year for over a decade! Happy to find another 360 controller user. Those Xbox 360 controllers are fantastic.
  Had to stop using them last year. I had the wireless adapter plugged into a windows 10 computer, and its drivers kept failing to be recognized after every restart. After maybe the hundred time, I gave up and bought a $20 USB knockoff which so far, feels the same!

Somewhere around here I have the HP optical mouse that used to come with their desktops. It finally quit working and I had to replace it, and I had to do the math for how long I had been using it.
Twenty years.

Good choice buying the second for backup. As a console game pr I know nothing about mouses, but I would assume they don’t make this anymore after a decade.
- They won’t make them and people will either be selling your old fave model new or (not really) lightly used for about $500 if it was at all popular. Always buy a backup once you’re in love
  
  I bought all seventeen that was in stock for my last favourite mouse.
  First one lasted eight years so I’ve got a lifetime supply and some backups.

RIP my baby, hello, baby's brother, hello, my ragtime gal...

I still have the same Microsoft Intellimouse that I got in 2000 when I went away to college. IIRC it was one of the first that used optical tracking vs ye old ball.
- My parents bought a new mouse when I was a kid back in the early 2000s cause we had a crappy view sonic one that came with the pc. The new one was a Microsoft one and it didn’t work cause it needed xp and we had ME. Back to the viewsonic mouse it was for another 20 years until I bought them a Logitech wireless one on a pc I built for them a few years ago.
  Wild how the cheap stuff works well for so many years!
  
  Did your parents keep ME for 20 years??? I had it in my first PC and I seemed to be the only person on the planet who had no issues with it, but even so, I was done with it after about a year
- I'd probably still be using my CeBIT-branded IntelliMouse Explorer if it hadn't been jostled by too many backpack rides. It was just plain good.

My Logitech G5 is like 18 years old and other than being dirty it has basically zero wear on it. Only thing that's falling apart is the braiding around the wire
- Mine still works too, got it at BestBuy on clearance when they switched to the 2 side button G5. It just doesn't fit my hand well anymore.

I bought a Kinesis Advantage in 2011. I only just recently replaced it with the Kinesis Advantage 360 Pro. The key caps could use a replacement, but besides that it's in good condition.

The left one looks great. Usually we don't think of computer peripherals as gaining a patina, but it kind of works here. Good call on buying a spare, though!

What brand are these mice? Never seen them before.
- Looks to be a Speedlink Prime Z-DW
  
  I think you linked to something else
  https://www.speedlink.com/en/PRIME-Z-DW-Gaming-Mouse-red/SL-6390-RD
- Looks like it's Speedlink.

I wish my mouse would last 11 years. The scroll wheel is vital for me and I wear them down after 2-3.

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