1 year ago12 points(+0/-0/+12Score on mirror)1 child
There's a million Chinese companies that can provide mice. These people really don't know what they're doing. They're all from the same schools that pushed business as a service models. That's really not how the real world works. People like to own things, people like to have unlimited access to things. As these idiots push more of this shit, hacking will make a massive come back. It used to be that they would be fancy software behind a pay wall so you would download a cracked version of it. Something like a mouse that you need a subscription? Cracked mice all day long, total abandonment of Windows.
1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)3 children
What you say might be true for at least oldschool nerds and at most the majority of our generation, but lots of boomers and x-ers will adopt shit like this because it's "easier" than hunting down the older, simpler hardware, and zoomers and especially alpha will grow up with shit like this and accept it as normal; to them, standalone offline hardware will seem backwards and lacking features.
Gen X grew up with computers. They are the CEO's now. Most of them will not accept this if they have an in house IT team. Which many companies do not anymore as they out source all IT to India.
>zoomers and especially alpha will grow up with shit like this
Nah, us older zoomers still remember when you bought a game and it was complete and there was no monthly fee to play it, and Gen Alpha will probably have to worry more about fighting nogs for food to have extra cash to pay to Consoom Product as a service.
I think you have a point. It will become normalized to a certain extent... but with continued pressure to integrate this plan, people will naturally try to get around it. It will force more people to find new vendors.
1 year ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)2 children
I'll go ahead and ask. What is the monthly bill *for*, exactly? Is it for a specific functionality, like the bullcrap heated seats in luxury cars? Is it like a rental, where if it breaks down you turn it in for a new one whenever? If I can buy a mouse for five bucks, what do I get for paying five more bucks a month?
And if it includes free replacements, you can bet that most of what you pay for, beside the usury, is some fat fuck regularly spilling goyslop over it so that it breaks. I never had a mouse break, they're too simple by design and just works.
Usually because of dust and years of filth from your hands. You have to clean your mouse and wash your hands after visiting the shitter. A more common problem is driver related issues, unplug and plug it in again or reinstall the broken driver. Also don't use wireless, their battery will only last for ~5-10 years on average.
I have a box of trackball mice, none of them are broken, they're just not as accurate as laser mouse. Mousemats are still a good thing to have for better accuracy, keep that one clean as well.
Nah, us older zoomers still remember when you bought a game and it was complete and there was no monthly fee to play it, and Gen Alpha will probably have to worry more about fighting nogs for food to have extra cash to pay to Consoom Product as a service.