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Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by anonym29 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @12:02AM (#35434890)
Many great points made.
Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by rektide on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @12:07AM (#35434928)
> We're in agreement, you prefer the solution with objectively, measurably inferior performance for strictly superficial reasons.

I never said that. I never said I made any trade-offs. Wireless is strictly better, with as good real performance. I kept reviewing the rtings table, and it turns out most of the best performances from mice are only on wireless. I haven't seen a single wired mouse that goes <2ms. But a number of mice (which are wired capable) can go <2 ms wireless. This doesn't seem worth quibbling about, but you're not playing this fair or square, you're not being in any way reasonable, you're being a lopsided mean person, so I'll cite some small fine-grained nitty-gritty shit to tell this denialist attitude off.

> Personal incredulity is a logical fallacy, not an argument

Show me the evidence. Your anger & pissancy is not an argument either. You have not a shred more than I do. You lean on fear uncertainty & doubt. You have nothing.

> From a usability standpoint, sure. That electricity still has an excess economic cost, and the lithium-ion battery produced from rare earth minerals that, statistically speaking, have a solid chance of having been mined with slave or child labor, have both environmental and humanitarian costs that my wired mouse, requiring no rare earth minerals, simply does not incur.

Get out of town. This zeal is ridiculous; you show your colors. Call me again when you're willing to come back to earth. Otherwise this is a flamewar & discussion is impossible. We're talking about batteries that weigh 10~20g. The level of shaming you've attempted to go through to condemn these batteries is stratospheric & utterly absurd. Let's say lithium makes up 50% the weight... is 5g of lithium that lasts well over a decade worth freaking out about? This seems unhinged & deranged to me. There seems to be no desire on your part to come-to-level, to actually discuss & have discourse: it's all extremes, bias, selling your position. I'm not interested in flamewars like this. The protests against wireless gear seem so ill-defined, so emotionally biased, so lacking in evidence. If you need both reliable AND cheap, yes, go wired, do it, it's easy, but for pretty mild costs, the wireless kit we can get today is surpassing. I have yet to hear a single reasoned cause not just in this thread but in any thread that genuinely backs up or supports the wired-mafia.