This one’s all on Logitech.
lol, lots of misinformation floating around. Including in the comments here on Lemmy.
Logitech did not drop the ball. It is insane that a company needs to keep paying Apple or their customer’s hardware stops working.
Max headroom 20 minutes into the future: Your Tesla won’t start because the tire manufacturer didn’t pay Tesla the yearly certificate renewal.
That said I didn’t buy Logitech for my new PC because of their bloat.
Logitech actually did drop the ball.
Already installed software keeps running when the cert expires unless the cert is revoked. Apple didn’t revoke the cert. Logitech did something wonky.
What’s even more insane? Apple has their OWN products that are no longer usable without hackery because their certificates have expired.
Then again, the alternative to all this is the Windows world where old drivers are now the method used to shovel malicious software onto the system, so there’s really no winning proposition.
Then again, the alternative to all this is the Windows world
Let me direct you this way… !linux@lemmy.world
Eventually Linux will be there, and this may be the year of SteamOS, but I can’t imagine the overlap of people using Linux as a desktop OS and people using custom configurations of Logitech input devices is all that large, outside people who can write their own systemd services and conf files from scratch. Just not the same user space.
the alternative to all this is the Windows world
you’re absolutely begging to be told about the world of penguins
I was indeed :D
I was leaving why I left that out as an exercise to the reader.
Actually, your car loses homologation and is not allowed to drive on public roads if your manufacturer decides to update the software without approval from the authorities in some countries (like Germany and other European countries)
Shamelessly plugging SteerMouse
any recs for not-yet-enshittified hardware mice?
I have an anecdotes of my own to offer.
Used a Logitech MX Master 2S which was okay but died suddenly. Turns out that a thumb button is prone to fail and because it’s a „modifier” the moment it’s pressed mouse locks while waiting for follow-up gesture / command. I took it out, which fixed it but that didn’t change the fact that I didn’t even use that button more than 2 times on purpose previously. Hard not to think that it was a planned obsolescence time bomb that also happened to go off precisely few months after warranty period.
Currently using Razer Pro Click since I was looking for something similar but lighter. I know Razer aren’t exactly well known for long term build quality but other than for paint chipping it’s holding on okay,
which is probably why they don’t make it anymore(I just checked and apparently there’s a new version from couple of months ago).yea logitech’s been going downhill for a while… my first “fancy” mouse was the original performance MX, which took a shit before a year was up. to their credit, i emailed logitech and said wtf, so they sent me a MX master 2s to replace it, no questions asked. also have a razr wired mouse which was gifted to me. it’s ‘good enough,’ but don’t know that i’d spend money on one
i’m still using logi currently, but if i happen across something better, i’m switching.
Is this why my MX Master buttons suddenly stopped working properly this morning?
Installing the patch fixes Options+ and returns everything back to normal.
