I’ve had mine for 5 maybe 6 years with fairly regular use.
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Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
All my mouse end up like this after a year or two. Thing is they never used to back in the day but all new mice have a coating that wears off so easily now.
Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Malix@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
could be my tinfoil hat receiving thoughts via radio waves: maybe it’s by design? the coating will get grimy eventually, so the user is more likely to buy a new device.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
not tinfoil at all, that’s a material choice that they made knowing what the result would be
this is intentional
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s not really a tinfoil hat, it’s just the material.
Older mice were hard plastic, modern mice use soft touch plastic which is a coating. It wears off.
It’s kind of like cheap pleather after a couple years
Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You still had the rubberized grips on a lot of mice back in the day, that would just get sticky over time or get rubbed off. Not really much better.
GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Remember taking the balls out and scrapping all the dust and crap off the rollers? It was a guilty pleasure of mine, but some of the mice from that era got pretty dank. I had one in college that was basically a science experiment at graduation.