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All my mouse end up like this after a year or two. Thing is they never used to back in the day but all new mice have a coating that wears off so easily now.
could be my tinfoil hat receiving thoughts via radio waves: maybe it's by design? the coating will get grimy eventually, so the user is more likely to buy a new device.
It’s not really a tinfoil hat, it’s just the material.
Older mice were hard plastic, modern mice use soft touch plastic which is a coating. It wears off.
It’s kind of like cheap pleather after a couple years
You still had the rubberized grips on a lot of mice back in the day, that would just get sticky over time or get rubbed off. Not really much better.
Remember taking the balls out and scrapping all the dust and crap off the rollers? It was a guilty pleasure of mine, but some of the mice from that era got pretty dank. I had one in college that was basically a science experiment at graduation.
not tinfoil at all, that's a material choice that they made knowing what the result would be
this is intentional
I've had mine for 5 maybe 6 years with fairly regular use.