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[-] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

Any computer mouse, frankly.

The sad thing is when I bought my first gaming mouse in the mid 2000s it was a Razer and that thing ran great for almost 10 years. I only replaced it because after handling it for that many years it was worn and kinda gross.

I replaced it with a Razer that went sure enough went faulty after a year. I then tried other brands (name and no-name). I've never had a mouse last me 18 months before it started to go faulty. It really feels like they all colluded a planned obsolescence. Even my current mouse, a Zowie FK3-C, has begun to drop the mouse input when i click and hold the left button. I bought this in June 2023!!

I still like the Zowie a lot, it has great features like a button to toggle the refresh rate without the need for installing dumb software to set it. But it's been 10 years of this shit, for me, so I will never recommend a computer mouse to anyone. Just use the one that you get from your office job, I guess.

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[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Anything from any company large enough that the obvious business decision is the screw over the end user to generate additional profit. That excludes basically everything, so instead it's easier to give recommendations for what I would buy/use instead:

  • Open hardware products
    • Framework laptop with RISC-V hardware
      • not released yet
    • Purism
      • Maybe not fully open, but at least they have schematics
    • Pine64
      • Caveat emptor, software controlled charging circuits, be wary of bomb
    • RaptorCS
    • Wikipedia has an okay list
  • Open source software
    • Operating systems
      • *BSD
      • Some Linux distributions
      • Plan9, Haiku, Illumos, etc
    • Web browsers
      • qtwebkit based
        • qutebrowser
      • gtkwebkit based
        • luakit
      • Textmode/Terminal browsers
        • w3m
        • lynx
        • links
      • Other graphical browsers
        • netsurf
        • links graphical mode
        • ladybird
          • Apparently the developer is an asshole
    • Other userspace software
      • Video
        • ffmpeg
      • Graphics
        • Krita
        • Blender
        • GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick
        • ffmpeg
      • Audio
        • LMMS
        • ffmpeg
      • PDF
        • xpdf
        • mupdf
      • IRC
        • Hexchat
          • Feature Complete ( dead :'( )
        • EPIC5
      • This list could go on forever, consult your repository instead of me

Everything sucks, avoid car brands that sell your driving data (AKA buy an old car or figure out how to permanently disconnect your car from the internet), and avoid smart home and llm garbage.

[-] chobeat@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

are you aware that the vast majority of people can't relate at all with the way you assign value? Or that they cannot afford the cognitive and temporal cost to adopt the technologies you mentioned? This kind of reasoning is what killed FOSS.

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