• @tabular
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    424 months ago

    Make it repairable if you want it to last forever.

    • @[email protected]
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      124 months ago

      I think cleanable is more important.

      I had a Razer Diamondback for like 20 years, and let me tell you, the insides of that were not a pretty sight when I took it apart to work out why the mouse wheel was glitchy. Two decades of crumbs and pubes and assorted hand gunk.

      Plus the rubber tends to get a bit tacky after a while, and I’m not sure of a good way to clean that.

      I think ten years is a decent lifespan for something I use all the time like that. More is a bonus, but I’m happy to replace after that time.

      • @tabular
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        14 months ago

        Mice seem to be a stagnant tech, not sure I need another one for the rest of my life… if I could fix middle wheel click and replace parts like the rubber side that has worn away.

        Cleaning is maintenance, a part of repair in my eyes 😊

        • Echo Dot
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          14 months ago

          It’s like TEL9 (a piece of technology that is so perfected, that at this point there’s no further improvements that can be made to it, see the paper clip, TEL10 is literally obsolete technology like the bow and arrow). The weird thing is there are companies out there that still seem to think that they can make money off of TEL9 tech.

          No one thinks they can make big bucks off of paper clips, but CEO’s brains turn to mush as soon as it’s got a circuit board.

    • @BarbecueCowboy
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      4 months ago

      That was specifically one of the goals talked about in the actual interview and the CEO spent a lot more time on that than the topic in the headline.