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Years ago, I went through ~3 wireless mice in as many months because the left click button would keep failing. Not completely failing, it would just develop a b
by gizmo686 3y ago
Years ago, I went through ~3 wireless mice in as many months because the left click button would keep failing. Not completely failing, it would just develop a bounce, where a single click would register as a dozen or so. When the 3rd failed, I got tired of constantly buying new ones, and decided to try and solve it is software; how hard can a bit of debounce logic really be? Several days of digging through the Linux input stack later, I gave up, opened up the mouse, and soldered a spare capacitor I had lying around to the input button. Mouse has been working flawlessly to this day.
- m463 3y ago> soldered a spare capacitor I had lying around to the input button wonder if the mouse was a victim of "cost optimization by deleting parts" that many manufacturing operations try to pull off.