Gotta love that the 24/7 Twitch stream of AI generated "Seinfeld" got suspended for transphobic content...
In other news, we're now on our third SteelSeries Rival 3 mouse...and it's going back too.
First one developed a wheel squeak within a week. Second one was seemingly having battery life issues. Replaced it, and it's worse than the first, even with brand new batteries.
They say "up to 2 years on one pair of batteries."
Now, granted, let's say that because we're using rechargeable instead of alkaline that we should expect 9mo instead of 24. Just for arguement's sake.
Now let's say that to get that max 9 mo life, it only means 8 hours per day and you need to physically turn it off 16 hours even though it has a sleep function, and if you leave it on for 24, you cut that life down to 1/3, which would mean 3 months.
And finally, for that 2 year life, you have to have it's performance dropped down to its special "battery optimised" performance mode which drops down to like 125 dpi, and it turns off all of the lighting. So even if leaving it out of that performance mode it, even if it dropped battery life down to 1/12 of that 3 mo life, we should still get a full week.
We don't even get 9 hours, sometimes as little as 7. Literally changing batteries sometimes more than once a day.
We've tried new batteries, and even bought a new charger.
Today, we put in topped-off, brand new batteries. It stopped working after about 7 hours, and gave us the flashing low battery signal. We pulled the batteries out, put them in the charger, and they charged for about 3 minutes before the charger indicated that it was done charging already, meaning it had only lost like 1-2% of its life.
What sucks is that there's no USB port so you can't use it as wired, much less charge the batteries inside, and we've yet to find another mouse that she likes the shape of anywhere near it...so that means we're stuck going with the wired version, which she is annoyed by (and her entire job is drawing with the mouse).
But the most annoying thing is that the only way to get the mouse to go into it's "eco" mode is through the Steel Series software. And that lowers the DPI so much that the mouse is painfully slow on her 1440 monitor, so if you then try to use the Windows mouse settings and speed it up, it continually gives annoying pop-ups about the software conflicts...and if you shut down the SteelSeries software, the "eco" setting isn't retained.