[Short rant] The most POS computer part in history (IMO)
[Short rant] The most POS computer part in history (IMO)
You may be wondering "what could that be? Maybe an ancient CPU? GPU?" No & No. It's the fuckin scroll wheel!! More specifically. That tiny fuckin peg connecting the scroll wheel to the sensor.
Some photos of a broken mouse that's been taken apart for reference.
As you can see this little peg is no longer connected to the fucking scroll wheel at all, how lovely!! If this particular part is remotely cheap at all e.g. plastic. Any kinetic shock like dropping it or you know just general use of middle mouse click over a few short years, completely fucking annihilates it. I am so fucking sick of mouse manufacturers using shitty ass plastic for this specific piece. IT IS TOO FUCKING FRAGILE!! I hate this ridiculous bullshit. Please for love of fuckin God, use metal!!! Over the past about decade I've had a handful of mouses and done some mouse repair myself and nearly every goddamn time the scroll whell shits the bed before anything else and every single fuckin time it's that shitty peg.
Anyways, I hope you guys can relate to this pain, because Jesus Christ is this shit frustrating. Luckily this mouse isn't new or partially expensive, but could you imagine if you were to get a brand new mouse and accidentally dropped it or it got banged up in shipping. The pure amount of unbelievable fury.
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In the 25 years I've been dicking around with PC hardware I've not once broken a scroll wheel. Am I special?
You probably just buy durable mice. There's mice I've had for more than 5 or so years and the mouse wheel didn't break at all during that time. Usually these mice use metal or a higher end plastic for the peg. However there are some mice that are particularly fragile. The mouse shown here is the RaspberryPi mouse, it's a nice mouse but this is a fatal flaw. Additionally if I remember correctly, red plastic is especially fragile due to something about the pigment messing with the bonds or something like that.
What makes me so mad about this type of thing is that it would be barely a price increase pure unit to fix this stupid issue.I just got lucky then eh? But don't get me wrong, I agree with your sentiment as that appears to be a weak point.