I have a Logitech MX Anywhere 3 mouse. In the past, my main mouse buttons started getting unreliable. I ordered "gaming" high quality switches from AliExpress and had an electronics repair shop install them. They gave my mouse a new lease on life. Apparently they should last much longer than the original ones. So far, no issues.

But even back then, my middle click was starting to act a bit wonky. The technician cleaned out, but without parts, he couldn't do much else. It didn't help.

Now, a couple of years later, the middle click is getting really bad. Almost always either multi-clicks or doesn't click at all when pressed once.

My friend found what looks like an OEM Logitech replacement wheel. Here it is: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008242236011.html

But if it's the same, is it going to start dying again in less than two years?

Is there something I can do (or rather have done; I don't have the dexterity for soldering) to actually improve its durability?

By the way, the magnetic sometimes ratcheted, sometimes smooth scroll wheel is kinda important to me. So I want that feature to stay.

One last question: it's been maybe 4 or 5 years, not sure how long exactly. Should I get the battery replaced at the same time, while I'm paying for shipping and installation? The charge has been holding less and less, but it's not the end of the world yet. But should I expect it to get exponentially worse soon or something?

In using Bazzite DX with KDE and a 9070 XT. I'm playing Clair Obscur in borderless windowed mode because that's the only way it'll allow me to turn on frame generation.

I was getting quite a bit of distracting tearing. But adaptive sync is on "always".

The tearing disappeared when I unchecked the option to allow tearing in full screen windows, but if I understand correctly, that's V-sync, and it increases latency, right?

It's a turn-based RPG so latency probably not the end of the world, and I honestly haven't noticed the difference so far, but it kinda feels like it's not ideal. Was there something else I should've done?

I've got an AMD graphics card in the mail, and for the occasion, I'm considering a move to Bazzite, because I heard it's a simple to use distribution, and I also heard AMD works well on Linux.

My decision isn't made, but if this could work better than it does on Windows, it'd encourage me.

So, I have two displays plugged into my computer:

• At my desk, plugged in through DP, 32-inch, 4K, 60 Hz, SDR monitor, used for when I actually sit at the computer to research something, or similar. Image doesn't need to be amazing on this one.
• In the next room, plugged in through a long HDMI cable that reaches through the wall, a 55-inch, 4K, 120 Hz, HDR TV, for all my gaming needs.

Currently they're set up as mirroring each other, because it's frankly annoying to have to worry about constantly switching main monitors, sending games into the right one, and it's really annoying to have a monitor to lose windows and cursors in when you can't even see it. Plus, the TV is not only used by me and it's pretty annoying to have my screens reconfigure themselves just because my mom turned the TV on or off.

Mirroring simplifies day-to-day use by a lot. Games are always on the correct monitor, etc. But it comes with a few disadvantages:

• I'm limited to the lower of the two refresh rates. So I can't do 120 Hz.
• I can't use variable refresh rate (G-Sync, FreeSync, etc.), so tearing can become an issue.
• I lose access to HDR

Would Linux improve these issues?

Crap steel?! What an opportunity. I just must give them all my bank details.

One thing I liked (and sometimes disliked) about Reddit was that my feed was a mix of posts in communities I'd joined and a few suggestions of posts from subs The Algorithm™ thought I might like.

On Lemmy I'm realizing I'm starting to fall into a bit of an echo chamber situation because I basically only see stuff I'm already a member of, unless I explicitly go to All or scroll the list of communities.

Are there less involved (lazy) ways of discovering new stuff and broadening my horizons a bit?

Sometimes, when I'm really cold, it can take over an hour to warm me up, even with a heating blanket. The quickest solution, a hot shower, feels really inefficient with all the heat going down the drain.

That got me thinking about microwaves. They heat food (partly) from the inside, contrary to simple infrared radiation.

Could we safely do that with people?

I found a Reddit thread where a non-lethal weapon and people getting eye damage because they stayed too long in front of a radar dish.

Could some sort of device be made that would warm specific areas (say, a hand or a leg) without endangering sensitive areas like the eyes?

Would it actually warm someone up from the inside? Would it be possible to make it safe?

Would it present advantages in cases of hypothermia, compared to heated IV fluids?

I don't see how it's a benefit to capitalism or companies or, well, anyone, really, to allow people to make thousands of trades a day for minute profits on each.

My gut feeling is that the stock market would not suffer, and less resources would be wasted, if trades and updates to stock prices were limited to, say, one batch per hour.

There are probably reasons the system is the way it is though.