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If you have a beast of a server (in a datacenter), you could run the most recent version of NextCloud. Not only does this do file sharing like a champ, there are also chat and videochat features built-in. But having a lot of people connect to the video chat feature simultaneously, that requires "horsepower" and bandwidth.
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Living Room / Re: Pandemic Quarantine DonationCoder Zoom Meet and Greet May 2nd
« Last post by Shades on April 22, 2020, 08:54 PM »
Don't mind a meet-n-greet, Zoom I rather stay away from. Yet, there are few alternatives for big(ger) meetings.
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Living Room / Re: Best Programming Jokes
« Last post by Shades on April 17, 2020, 05:03 PM »
Hahahaha  :Thmbsup:
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Searching emails with Archivarius
« Last post by Shades on April 12, 2020, 12:20 AM »
@Yatom:
MailStore Home is free, at least it was last time I looked on their site. MailStore Server is indeed expensive, but not necessary for your purpose.
At work I have several mail accounts (from different providers) configured in my Thunderbird mail client. Each account stores its messages/settings/filters etc. into a separate folder. MailStore Home is configured to look through these folders.

So yes, it is possible to have MailStore Home work with multiple accounts on multiple domains. 
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How do people access these files? By browser?
Ah yes, I read it now, browser access.

Do the people need to store files?
If not it can actually be rather simple. Which web-server software do you run?
Enable WebDAV for Apache 2.x.
Or on IIS 7 and higher.
Or on IIS 6.

(yes, you can disregard any remark regarding microstrategy, that is just a company who was friendly enough to write clear instructions for the most simple way to start using WebDAV (your own company's cloud drive))

Each user can have his/her own folder, with their own password and read/write privileges where necessary. At the back end, you can automatize the distribution of files in these user folders by using Powershell and/or batch scripts. Or do the user file distribution manually, whichever you prefer.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Searching emails with Archivarius
« Last post by Shades on April 10, 2020, 11:51 AM »
Well, you could use a tool called: MailStore Home

With this software you can pull all your mail to your computer. You could then export these into a folder on your computer (using the .eml format) and then let Archivarius index these files.

This method makes sure you have a local backup of your mail.

However, when the MailStore Home software retrieves your mail, it already stores these messages and their attachments into a database of its own. And you can search through messages and attachments directly using the MailStore Home interface, which provides many search parameters for you to search through your mail. And it returns results fast. Even on my archive of 10 years worth of email, searches take a second or 2.

MailStore Home is free for non-commercial use.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Error sending mail
« Last post by Shades on March 30, 2020, 01:46 PM »
In the configuration panel from Windows, you will see a icon called 'Mail' appear after you install Outlook. When you double-click that icon, you are able to configure the settings from Outlook itself. Outlook should be able to define all required parameters automatically when you fill in your mail address and password. After this configuration you can test if you are able to send/receive messages within Outlook itself.

You then should check if Outlook is setup correctly for all mail features. It would not be the first time that Outlook messes up the default settings, so while you think it is setup correctly, it isn't. Can be a real time sink getting all settings correctly.

Newer versions of Outlook do this automatic configuring worse than older versions. Also, make sure there is no other mail client installed on the computer you install Outlook on. Again, it can mess up the default associations even when you tell Outlook to be the one and only mail client. Had that particular problem myself on one computer. Outlook refused to make all the default associations. Tried it with Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2019, all the same behavior. The only thing that helped was removing the other mail client using Revo Uninstaller to make really sure all associations were reset, then remove Outlook again using Revo Uninstaller, a complete reboot and finally re-install Outlook.

Another note:
If you use the 64-bit version of ScreenShot Captor (or any other 64-bit application for that matter) and use a 32-bit Outlook, do not expect things to go smoothly. Using a 32-bit application? Use a 32-bit Outlook.

Mixing and matching versions should not matter. In practice, the translation between 32/64-bit with regards to Office products is always giving you headaches in the best case scenarios. Especially when you have to start working with Extended MAPI features of Outlook and/or Exchange.

For 3rd party command-line mail clients I can recommend 'CMail' and 'SwithMail'.




 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: major problem on boot
« Last post by Shades on March 23, 2020, 05:46 PM »
Sounds to me like you store the configuration file(s) of your launchbar on the computer, not your USB stick. And when you use the pendrive on another computer, it will not find your configuration and needs to use the most minimal defaults before it is able to run on the other computer.

Better find out where you store your configuration file(s) and copy these into the folder that contains your launchbar on the pen drive. Most software check more than one location to find their configuration file. The default Windows user account folders are often used, Windows registry is often used, but also the folder that you run the application from. 
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Living Room / Re: COVID-19 might have just killed ISP data caps
« Last post by Shades on March 22, 2020, 03:06 PM »
Data caps is just there for the ISP to pick the customer even more clean. The equipment to handle the traffic generated by customers is already there at the ISP and costs practically as much when it is running or not. Caps also require more administration on the customer's end but mainly on the ISP's end.

Data caps used to be a thing in the Netherlands too, around 1990. Haven't heard of this being a thing since 2000 in the Netherlands. Here in PY data caps are only a thing with people that buy internet for their phone. For domestic connections, no data caps in any shape or form. Connection quality and/or reliability in PY isn't so great, but has made pretty big strides since 2005. And there is a big push for domestic fiber connections going on. As most houses do not have a coax cable connection anyway, it is almost as easy to roll out fiber as it is to roll out coax. A 20MBit/sec fiber connection (internet-only, no TV or phone plan) is about 10 USD monthly.

Even though prices are very acceptable for the customer, ISP's make more per connection. much more people want and commit to contracts with the ISP, because no data cap head-ache, which they know only all too well, because of their phones. The same happened in the Netherlands all those years ago, the same is happening here in Paraguay as well.

The US would not be any different, but I get the impression that management layers at ISP's do not want to let their claws release the concept of data caps.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest GOG Giveaway
« Last post by Shades on March 20, 2020, 11:23 PM »
You can also get the game 'Tomb Raider' for free on Steam. The website 'Rock, Paper, Shotgun' alerted me today about it, tried it and it is free till the 24th of this month.
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Here in PY there is a story about a Italian person who traveled here, he went out, was spotted by his neighbors and was chased by police to the Italian consulate here. Government is getting pretty strict about sick foreigners, who leave their habitation while sick with the virus. They are handling those persons to the appropriate embassy or consulate, becoming a problem for their government.

No more travel allowed between 20:00 and 04:00. Pharmacies, supermarkets, gas stations, cash-points and funeral homes. That is more or less it. Convenience stores are limited to 10 persons max. All that for 11 confirmed cases in the whole of Paraguay, no casualties as of yet.

Pretty draconian measures, but there used to be a pretty dictatorial regime here in the '80s, lead by a guy named Stroessner. The people that hark back to those days, are pretty pleased with all of this. Unfortunately, those people are of the generations that are more vulnerable, so they might got more than what they wished for.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a Mass Mailer
« Last post by Shades on March 18, 2020, 06:36 PM »
Do not do this, using the IP that your companies mail server is running on (if that is the case at your company). Anything that bursts out so many mail messages at once, will cause that IP to flagged as a spammer. And it can take some time before you are allowed to send any mail again. It will also reduce the reputation of your own mail server, regardless.

So, if you have IP addresses to spare, use those. Seriously.

Seeing the screenshots from TurboMailer, they are from the Windows XP era. Back in those days it would have been less problematic to push out a lot of email messages at once. Nowadays, everything is much, much stricter and there are many organizations that patrol the internet to fight against spam.

*edit*
I forgot:
It often takes a day or 2 or 3 to restore your outgoing mail functionality. Perhaps one day before it is noticed that outgoing mail is not received and the intended receiver starting to complain, the you need to go to the site or sites that have you flagged as spammer to create a request for removal and than you need to wait until they pull you from their list. Sometimes this is immediately, with others you can wait for a day or 2.

And all of them keep your IP address in a sort of 'person of interest'-list for a few weeks. Do you burst out another email message this way in that penalty-period, you'll lose the ability to send mail for a week, if not more, depending on the guidelines of the anti-spam organization's guidelines. All of the organizations clearly warn you for this, the first time you'll make the request to be taken from their spammers list.

What you are ordered to do sounds more like a PR panic move than anything else. Not worth it to drag your mailserver's reputation through the mud for it, if you would ask me. But I know you didn't.

Maybe you could use a command line script to push out messages in a time-controlled manner.
In that case, I can recommend 'SwithMail' and 'CMail'. Then you only need to design a HTML message using HTML4 syntax, because that makes sure every mail client is showing the message as intended. Store it as a text-based file and use that file as the mail body in either command-line mailer. Then you only need a list of recipients and repeat sending the message to each of that list separately. Maybe that prevents you being flagged as spammer.

Or sending this message to yourself, with the intended recipient as a BCC. Don't know if that gets you flagged either. But perhaps worth a shot. 
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After 7 years a computer has "collected" a lot of cruft. While transfer software might spare you a bit of time to setup your new(ish) computer with your old tools and/or data, the accumulated cruft will hamper the functioning of the new(ish) computer for as long as you are using that system.

So, it is actually better to start from scratch, (re)configure your software and keep what you won't be using archived on the portable hard disk you will end up using for the transfer. A fresh start with 7 years worth of new insight(s) on how you need to use your software/configuration setup in a financially beneficial manner will be much more preferable, even if it does take more time initially to set everything back up on the new(ish) computer. That time investment will pay itself back quickly in time and/or money, because you'll end up with a much snappier system than muddying on with an old crufty setup.

There is even a chance that transferring your old Windows installation onto a different computer isn't even allowed (by the letter of the license agreement) from the old Windows license. OEM systems have a Windows license that is bound to the hardware of the computer they are installed on. This type of license is not transferable. And if the new(ish) computer also has an OEM licensed version of Windows on it, you'll enter some shaky legal grounds.

Now Microsoft won't care too much about this, but if you need to have everything properly licensed for business purposes, ISO certifications etc. it will be less of a legal headache to just start the setup from scratch instead of transferring.
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With the passing of time, inevitably, insights and methods change. Usually for the better.

That is true for for any kind of science, but also for computing.

It is also very possible that the content of the 'show_ads.js' file has changed to better suit newer insights/methods. And that the link generation scripts behind your website are not able to cope with those changes. And that will likely require the attention of the person(s) who created those scripts for your website in the first place.

Generic answers are the best you can expect, without disclosing much more info about your website. Unfortunately, it sounds more and more like a job, requiring time to investigate and fix/test.

On an even more general note:
If you are unable or unwilling to find out and work with Google's new insights/methods, you'd better bite the bullet and spend some cash on one or more persons that are already able with time to spare.
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While the action of pinging/checking links is rather simple, access to the server that hosts your website can and does vary a lot, depending on the software that your hoster uses to give you access to your website.

Very few hosters give you command-line access directly, (using TelNet/TTY client, like 'Putty') but that is usually the simplest way for their customer to execute commands like: ping https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/
Most hosters give you an online version of a TelNet/TTY client nowadays. Which is usually a lot less advanced than a dedicated client and slower too. But when you are in a pinch, it suffices.

When you don't get any response from your ping command, it's highly likely that this particular domain is not available anymore and you'll need to find out which Google domain is currently hosting those scripts/ads.
If you do get a valid response, then you could use a browser on the hoster's server and see if you get the content from the file 'show_ads.js' in the link https://pagead2.goog...m/pagead/show_ads.js.

If you get valid content there, the file/folder structure at Google hasn't changed, so you can be certain the your problem is not this particular link. However, if you don't get any content or garbage content, you'll have found the (first?) error on your end. Unfortunately, you must repeat this for every link that your website generates. It won't be too difficult of a job, but time-consuming it definitely will be.


Did you try to see the ads in your site using only your favorite browser inside your own network? If so, go and use a computer/tablet/laptop that you do not own in a network that isn't yours. With permission, of course.
If ads de show up on that device, you can be sure that you have a local problem (as in: your computer/browser is blocking your ads and you'll need to go revise all extensions/configuration options on your own computer.

But if the ads also not show on the other computer, it is more likely that your problem is related to your hoster and/or your website configuration than anything else. And that analysis needs a very different approach. How different? That depends on your hoster and the software they use to manage their hosting equipment.

All of the above is more or less manual labor and I'm sure that a developer extension, making most of the above a lot easier, does exists for your favorite browser. Yet going through the motions manually will give you a troubleshooting mindset, which will help you solving future problems.

Logging files give you better insights too. Perhaps even more than the manual stuff above, but I understand that you are S.O.L. on that front, unfortunately.
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Living Room / Re: Looking for audio merger Y-cable
« Last post by Shades on March 13, 2020, 12:28 AM »
A splitter cable (without any electronics built-in) can also be used as a merger cable. With the analog style of cable, it doesn't matter which way the signals are carried.

But you also have splitter cables that do have some kind of electronics built-in. And then, more often than not, the electronics only allow one way for the signals to be carried. There is often a good reason that a splitter cable has some electronics built-in (like managing the impedance, preventing 'ground loops', amplification, clearing up possible noise etc.). The simple analog splitter cables don't have such features and should therefore be used with high quality audio equipment. And if you are wondering about your own audio equipment being high quality, it usually isn't.   Good quality? Sure.   Fit for purpose? Sure.   But high quality? Nah.

While not exactly what you are looking for, this link may give you a good idea where to look next.
If you are a hands on type and want to make such a merge cable yourself: link

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I see a http link in your <script> ... </script> text. Think you'll need to change that to https.

On the server that runs your website, can you ping (all of) the google domains you use?
Or take each of the (referral) links you use in your sites, copy-paste each into a separate browser tab and check if your browser shows you the content of these scripts. At least, if you see content, then you'll know that part is still available to you. If there is no response shown in the browser tab, then you'll know which links are failing and you can focus on getting these resolved.

Did you install a browser extension that blocks access to certain domains? Or do you have an extension that uses blocklists it automatically downloads from the internet? If so, it is possible that this list contains domains which you need for ads. Maybe you use a DNS server that is too overzealous for your purposes.

Do you have by any change a pi-Hole device running in your network? It is possible that it is configured to block with too much zeal for your purposes as well. Same statement is true if you are behind a (hardware) firewall.

It might even be the case that you have incorrectly configured the HOST file of your web server.

Way too many questions and way too little information. Most of this incomplete list of failure situations require a very different approach to solve them. If available, the exact error codes can be very helpful. If you have those, you could google these yourself and more than likely you'll find a manual with steps on how to fix these error codes. If you do, don't trust links to websites that claim to have a tool that automatically fix the problem you experience. 95% of those are male cow excrement in the best case scenario.

*edit*
I forgot: server logs are your friend. Dig through those and you'll likely find your problem. Most of the time log files are text files, but can be rather large. Not all text editors can handle large text files that well. One of the few that can, is the free version of emEditor, but there are a few more.
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People lose socks and keys, but can you lose a building?

Go to a casino and find out...?
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Installable vs Portable?
« Last post by Shades on March 07, 2020, 04:36 PM »
Use uninstaller software, such as Revo Uninstaller, IObit Uninstaller, Geek Uninstaller. There are more.

These can be used to start the un-installation process of the software. These start the normal un-installer functionality from Windows itself, and when that is done, it will go and check if there are still settings left in the Windows registry and/or files that were no deleted. You can then clean out the remainder and you are good to go to either re-install "fresh" or use the portable version that takes its settings only from the included configuration file.
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Regarding the Windows clipboard functionality:

[SHIFT] + [Insert] == [CTRL] + [V]
[CTRL] + [Insert] == [CTRL] + [C]

So the insert key being completely useless...I'll guess we disagree there. It is a nice alternative if you happen to work with software that hogs the [CTRL] based hotkeys and/or in VMs.

For issue 2:
It might be as simple as FARR remembering the height of its window between user sessions.

Say, for example, you made a FARR search that resulted in perhaps 1 or 2 results and you adjusted the height of the FARR window because of this. The next time you start and/or use FARR, its window height remains the same, but now you have lots of results. Each entry in the result list must have a default height, which is usually absolute. The other parts of the FARR window can have relative width and height. A cut-off is often the compromise between window items with absolute values in a window supporting relative width and height.

If that is the case with FARR, introducing a minimum width and/or height for the relative values section of the FARR window could prevent the cut-off for the results in the list view. Whether you do that with adjusting the height of the offending window yourself or the author of the software...

Ah, Mouser's answer indicates that there options to control the height of entry results in the list view from FARR, which makes it much easier for you. There are many pieces of software out there who do not have such control built into them and for those the ramblings above are still valid.

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Similar attacks were already possible by freezing the RAM modules and read these out on a unprotected computer to completely break open the security features from the first CPU. That method had a high failure rate and a lot of hardware/software complexity.

But now it is possible to do the same attack without resorting to all those physical tricks, only leaving the software complexity, which is very likely reduced to almost no software complexity once a few smart people write an efficient routine for it.

Apparently there is very little to expect from Intel regarding security in their i3/i5/i7 series of processors of the last 10 years.
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From your description I understand that both networks are in the same physical location. That makes it simpler.

Must the routing device be Windows or may it be something else? In case of the latter, things become even more simple.

I would suggest the following:
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Use an old(er) computer, kit it out with NICs as you see fit and install OPNSense on it. This is based on FreeBSD, therefore very secure and made to do networking.

I use this software for 7+ years already and hasn't failed me yet. My network consists of 30 bare metal computers, 20 active VMs, lots of phones, 5 WiFi routers (converted to AP's) and several IP cameras. For the OPNSense router I use a system with an old Intel Core Duo (2 core) processor, 2 GByte of RAM and an old 300 GByte HD I still had lying around. The load counter has never come above 15%. Computer hardware that a lot of people throw away or sell for a pittance nowadays.

This router box manages the DHCP leases, does traffic inspection, has lots of firewall rules and manages traffic shaping on the fly. For my intents and purposes I need about 30% of the feature set that comes with the default installation. But you can add free/commercial extensions to it if you so desire. OpenVPN, Unbound DNS, NTP, authentication, traffic logging and lots more is part of the default feature set.

Anyway, the web interface is pleasant to work with and allows you to create separate networks for your 184.174.x.x network on one NIC, the 10.0.x.x network on another NIC and the 3rd NIC you use to connect the OPNSense router box to the modem you got from your ISP.

Some ISPs allow their modem to be used as a bridge device, meaning that all traffic to and from your location is now managed by the OPNSense router box directly. My ISP doesn't, so I killed almost all functionality of the modem I got and added rules to forward traffic to/from my OPNSense box. Now my OPNSense router box manages all traffic indirectly. One extra hop, but it works just fine.

You can keep the 184.174.x.x and 10.0.x.x networks separated, you can combine them, whichever way you wish. You can also use the OPNSense box to forward all HTTP/HTTPS traffic from the 184.174.x.x IP address to the computer with the Apache web server on it, which is located in the 10.0.x.x. network. Your Apache web server computer won't know the difference if it was directly connected to the internet or to the OPNSense box. People working inside your network can use the web server without leaving the premises, so to speak. You can even set up the DNS forwarder to let any user inside your network or outside your network use the "outside" URL of your Apache web server.

It is all managed by firewall rules. And once you get the hang of how that works, you won't go back to Windows-based solutions. Even better, you can as many NICs as your computer hardware allows. Each of those can be it's own separate LAN network or combine them. If you purchase services from more that one ISP for your location, you can also add NICs to connect these to your OPNSense box, it will even combine the provided bandwidths from those connections for you, load-balancing traffic over these connections.

OPNSense is GPL software and is provided to you without costs. There is an extensive online-manual (which you will need), the hardware needs are low (depending on your use of features) and cheap to get. I just used a financially written off computer I already had in my possession. You will be spending time getting familiar with this and time is money, so it helps if you are quick on the uptake. However, once it runs, it doesn't need much maintenance. It is also easy to make backups of your settings (all stored in XML), so it doesn't take too much effort to restore to a previous good state after your latest configuration changes screwed something else up.

Yeah, fanboy here and proud of it.

Once you get over your fixation that Windows is the solution for everything, you'll quickly find that there is some very good software already out there, which is a much(!) better fit for a specific problem. And as configuration is managed through a web browser, you won't have to leave your Windows comfort zone.

For file sharing:
That was an problem for me too. Most people do have a grasp of how to work with cloud drives (Google, Onedrive, Dropbox, whatever). For my intents and purposes I needed a solution that did not use any of such services that are not based in the Netherlands or (based on contractually agreed upon permission) Europe. I chose to use NextCloud (which can be accessed by browser, tools like CarotDAV and also iOS/Android apps) and run that on a separate Linux server. Diverting NextCloud traffic to my NextCloud server was a breeze in OPNSense and using that for 4+ years already. NextCloud can do so much more than just file sharing, but that is the only use I have for it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paint Shop Pro 7
« Last post by Shades on February 14, 2020, 09:20 AM »
Windows 10 adds a Mount context menu item, ImDisk Toolkit couldn't mount it either, yet works fine with DaemonTools (Ultra in my case).

DRM in the MDF image file...or intentional mis-alignments as another form of copy protection. Most mounting software is not able to work around these "tricks", including the software from Windows itself. DaemonTools does. And that used to be a reason for some installers to fail when they detected a DaemonTools installation on your system.

ISO image files are not suitable for such "tricks", because those fail too quickly. Disney DVDs were infamous for doing all kinds of crap to the structure of DVDs for copy protection. They are likely doing the same to Blurays.
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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.
« Last post by Shades on February 13, 2020, 10:16 PM »
You didn't mention what the problem is that these mouses are experiencing.

A friend of mine had the same Microsoft mouse I do and he uses it even more extensively than I do. His mouse gave out some 3.5 years ago. He threw it away and got one the fitted his hand a tad better.

Yet I was able to fix his old Microsoft mouse by opening it up, then cleaning it, which gave me the "room" I needed to repositioning the cable (similar to pushing the cable further into the case of the mouse).
It appeared that the cable looked all right from the outside, but that one of the wires inside made intermittent contact.

The MS mouse doesn't have a piece of rubbery plastic that prevents the cable to bend too far in the section where the cables leaves the mouse casing. But by repositioning the cable and stabilizing it under the electronics inside the mouse I lost about 4 to 5 centimeter of cable length, but the mouse works perfectly again. When the other mouse of my friend broke after about 2 years, he took the Microsoft mouse back and still works with it.

It might be something to try. You can't make the mouse any worse than it already is...
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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.
« Last post by Shades on February 13, 2020, 09:56 PM »
At work I use a very basic and cheap Microsoft mouse, yet it lasts and lasts, because I'm using it for over 10 years already.

At home I always used wired Logitech MX... mouses. 4.5 to 5 years ago I bought a Sentey Apocalypse X mouse and after a year the clicking of buttons wasn't too "smooth" anymore. However, it remains working till today. Less nice, but completely workable. Don't think I am in the market for a new mouse any time soon.

The link points to a multi-lingual website from Sentey (Brazil in this case), but when I switched for the English version I noted that they don't produce mouses anymore. At least they don't have links for those in their current product portfolio. The Brazilian version also doesn't show any links anymore.

Great, when the time comes for me to buy a new mouse, I have the same problem as you currently experience. It is a shame, in the beginning I truly enjoyed this Sentey mouse, now I respect it for the workhorse it has proven to be. The same can be said of the Microsoft mouse.
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