Sadly it won't do consumers any good now that they existed consumer market.

• https://www.techpowerup.com/343633/micron-to-exit-crucial-consumer-business-ending-retail-ssd-and-dram-sales

If money is power, then capitalism is a form of government.

People or corporations. Unless it's an emerging market with limited supply, it should be viewed as market manipulation.

Boycot / protest against any data centers being built for AI bs in your local area.

They will not only drive up the prices for electronics, but also for electricity & water.

Almost like there shouldn't be a hand full of rich people who can buy everything at the expense of everything and everyone else.

ah, sorry then. my kb has mx brown switches which are tactile, but silent. the key might bottoms out and make some sound

Yeah for normal you don't hear the click when you're wearing headphones or sth. like this. So that doesnt make any big difference. Just the feeling is important. Thats also what I meant to say :)

Doesn’t have to sound awful though if done right - I switched from Logi MX3 to MX4 mouse and it surprised me as it doesn’t have an audible click whole still having some noticeable feedback to it.

I'm aware of what tactile feedback is. The audible click is generally a byproduct of the mechanism that creates the tactile click. I don't know that I've ever used a keyboard or mouse that has a satisfying clicky feel without some noise accompanying it. You can definitely do things to make them quieter though.

tactile feedback is for your finger to feel, as per the name,, and doesn't necessarily make an audible click.

Specifically for the extra buttons on the sides, I would prefer having gamepad-like switches, since the normal clicky ones don't seem to do well over there.

While an audible click is not really necessary for switches, I consider it important to at least be able to feel it on my finger. Hence the word "tactile".

I feel like I have used a couple mouses in my life that don't or barely make a audible click. The important part of the click feedback to my is their being a little resistance and then it fully deforms after getting past a threshold. The click does not need to be audible.

I try to click on something and it doesn't react.

Is this because I failed to execute the click (has happened, especially on laptop touchpads), or because the site is unresponsive/buggy?

As a person not too familiar with hardware or what goes into mouse creation, I have always taken the "click" sound as something that can only happen when I actually successfully execute the click. That I made those two connectors touch. (Of course, the OS might drop it and the software part does not work, but I do take it as I made all the physical things that need to happen to make a click happen.) So if I get to hear the "click" on a mouse I know for sure if I clicked or not, if it's human error or not in the problem I posed. If I don't I'm going to be clicking a lot more times to ensure I got a real click through, because I am not sure if I actually managed to click.

Physical feedback is an important part of the user experience. There's no hard requirement, it just makes the device feel better to use

Depending on the mouse you can replace the microswitches for clicking with silent switches

Button or switches need to be open or closed. A spring strong enough to force the button to switch when pushed is used because if you were to push it down and let the contacts touch slowly, the contacts would bounce and you'd get multiple clicks with a single press (undesirable). Mice tend to have very little button travel which doesn't lend itself well to using other kinds of switches which allow smoother / quieter switches.

Some quieter or less clicky switches probably do exist but its at the tradeoff of greater travel distance, mushy feeling or double clicking. I recall a mouse with rubber dome buttons that was discontinued because it feels like crap ans no one bought it

Exactly this. People generally prefer tactile feedback, and it increases how well people use tools. That is also why most people that have used mechanical keyboards prefer them to membrane. The noise is just a byproduct of the tactile click.

Fun example of this is the F-16 fighter jet. It was the first US fighter jet that was fly by wire. Since there was no mechanical linkage, the flight stick didn't need to move to function, so when it was first built the flight stick was immobile and simply registered direction and pressure. Pilots hated it, and said it made flying more difficult, so the stick was modified to move despite there being no mechanical or engineering need for it to do so.

Yeah you are right. There are mice that don't "click". But they feel aweful.

I don't think there is something you could just easily swap, but I'm not sure.

And just like a all cool, exciting, affordable new tech from the 70's and 80's, that liberated and empowered generations of tech enthusiasts, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. A fitting tribute to the history of the failed personal computer revolution.

Yeah but when can I buy better, cheaper Chinese chips in the USA?

10 eur / month is a pretty steep price i have to say

Proprietary subscription OS, big no for me. Has worse specs than a Google Pixel and probably doesn't have strong hardware security. Wtf would I not just use a Pixel with GrapheneOS, which is FOSS, heavily deblobbed over base AOSP, and substantial more secure and private. What a weak argument "AphyOS is a subscription operating system, simply because if you don’t pay for a product, you are the product" when GOS is free. They should just sell a phone and guarantee OS updates for (at least) 5 years like any (reasonable) OEM would do if they "care about their users". The only, and I mean only, feature that I think is interesting is the SD card slot, which isn't revolutionary.

If you don't want a Google Pixel because buying it supports Google, get it used in Good or Mint condition from a site like Swappa.com, that way no profit makes it's way to Google.

Theres a big gap in the market and clearly not enough competition lol.

Wow that sounds like a pretty powerful OH MY GOODNESS IT COSTS $600

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