I have the same mouse. The mouse doesn’t “stop working”. The mouse stops being able to use certain proprietary features enabled by the companion software, and downgrades to a normal working mouse. Logitech have already fixed the software issue, so this is doubly deceptive. Yes, it sucks that you can’t use certain custom buttons, but the mouse functionality never went away.
All those features used to be usable even without their shitty software, as every configuration was stored in the mouse, as it should be.
The mouse was usable on every PC without the need to install anything, you had to configure it once and you’d be fine.
Logitech made the shitty decision some years ago to completely rewrite their mouse management software, so that it must be installed to use the main selling point features of the mouse. To be honest they left a way to store the configuration on the mouse, but they made it harder to find, configure and use it this way.
All this is a deliberate choice by Logitech to worsen the user experience just to gather your data.
TL; DR: User changed the year on his Mac to 2122, it threw a lot of errors because certificates have expired, he rebooted and ended up in a reboot loop.
This is the future: total control through certificates. "We are sorry, your heating certificate has expired. Please contact support using a valid certificate".
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 35.5 ms ] threadPlug-and-play peripherals relying on proprietary software was a mistake.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548201
2) The submission title is false. It was not a server issue but rather a native software issue.
The mouse was usable on every PC without the need to install anything, you had to configure it once and you’d be fine.
Logitech made the shitty decision some years ago to completely rewrite their mouse management software, so that it must be installed to use the main selling point features of the mouse. To be honest they left a way to store the configuration on the mouse, but they made it harder to find, configure and use it this way.
All this is a deliberate choice by Logitech to worsen the user experience just to gather your data.
TL; DR: User changed the year on his Mac to 2122, it threw a lot of errors because certificates have expired, he rebooted and ended up in a reboot loop.
This is the future: total control through certificates. "We are sorry, your heating certificate has expired. Please contact support using a valid certificate".
3 days ago post.
Discussion amongst numerous submissions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548201