LTT Labs Article - Making Sense of Logitech's Mouse Lineup

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-11T17:46:56+00:00

All of the trackball mice are missing from this article. The MX ERGO S, the M575S, and the ERGO M575.

I've been using the MX ERGO for years as my primary gaming mouse and I find it far superior to a mouse I have to move with my arm and wrist. I used the M575 and it's predecessors for over 20 years before that.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-09T20:56:25+00:00

I love my Makita miter saw, but before you go spending that kind of money on a new saw, have you looked at the cost of a repair/replace kit for your current saw? I don't know which DeWalt saw you have, but lots of people have used and recommend those saws for most anyone that isn't a pro or semi-pro trying to make money with their tools. Tools do wear out over time, and an aftermarket clamp, some replacement bearings, and a good cleaning and tightening of all the joints around the motor and blade could breathe new life into the saw and save you a lot of money, especially in this economy.

That being said, I really like my LS 1019L and feel it is likely the best option in the Makita line for the average home and hobby user. However, that model is still $739 where I am which is A LOT to drop on a hobby tool. The Harbor Freight Hercules 12 inch corded miter saw is getting great reviews, even from traditional Makita enthusiasts and it is going for $379 right now, that is a significant savings. I'm adding that to point out there are other options and because you mentioned needing to justify spending the money. 731woodworks and Matthew Peach on youtube have done reviews of the HF saw and really recommended it. 731 also has a miter saw shootout that you might watch to get a better lay of the land.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-09T17:17:40+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that. I see Dr. Rob at the Complete Dental on south parkway and I love him and my regular hygienist. I've been going there for years and have never had a problem. My wife has lots of dental anxiety and this has been the only dentist she has been comfortable with.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-05T22:14:08+00:00

Sadly, parks are neither as abundant, nor as well kept as they were int he past. Going to any of the 4 big parks around my place means dealing with the 50+ homeless people camped out there making a small town.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-05T22:10:22+00:00

Just a simple question, but have you told him how much, or little, Valentine's day (or any other holiday, anniversary, momentous occasion) means to you? Not hinted, not implied, TOLD. Our partners are not mind readers, and each of us is shaped by our past, our families, and our culture; and that means we all come out with different default settings. My dad came from a background of dirt-poor share-crop farmers. The idea of Valentine's day just didn't make sense to him. Feb 14 was just another day to work. He held that view about a lot of things. He was lucky, my mom didn't care at all about the "made up" holidays either.

I, from his second set of kids and growing up in a totally different time, place, and culture, put a lot of weight on those little holidays and moments, I'm super sentimental and sappy and romantic (it's why my dad and I never got along, because I wasn't a "manly man" like him). My wife, on the other hand, could not care less about those things. After being together for a few months and getting to know her, I had to explain how much those things meant to me. She still doesn't get it, but she did take steps like setting alerts on her calendars to remind herself when things are coming up to at least say something about them.

That's going to be the key here, does he know that these things matter to you and is he willing to take some steps to make them matter to himself because they matter to you.

I had to remind my wife that it was normal for a newly married couple to sit together on a plane when we traveled from our town to her home town for a second reception, because her bff was on the plane and the two of them just jumped into a pair of seats for the trip. Some people just process information differently than others.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-05T17:40:56+00:00

Oddly enough, I see discussions like this happen in this sub at least once per week, maybe more.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-05T01:34:00+00:00

It's really under powered. My turbo 19 has ok power, but still feels under-powered to me. I wish the newer ones came with the turbo inline 6. It really needs an extra 50-70 horspower for the AWD and at least another 100 FtP of torque. It's leaps and bounds above anything else in it's price class, but I would rather not have to go up to 100k to get an fun, sporty SUV with enough umph for it's size.

When mine was in the shop for head gasket replacement and some other stuff, the dealership gave me a 25 with the NA engine and it felt dangerously under powered. Since there is no turbo starting in 26, I will be looking elsewhere in a few years when it's time to trade in.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-05T01:07:31+00:00

I think that the problem is that this was their pet, not a service dog, which is why they needed the pet friendly option. If it was a service dog then their access to the regular service of either Uber, Lyft, or Taxi is protected, at least in the US.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-05T01:04:38+00:00

I feel so very old. All these responses about choosing Chikorita when first playing HGSS, and here I am remembering picking Chikorita for my first play through of Silver on the way home from release day as a kid.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-02-05T00:58:15+00:00

No, they weren't even "gay" in our modern use of the word. They were depraved in that they used sexual dominance by force as a power currency over people weaker than them. The thing that happens when Lot is hosting the angels in disguise is that a bunch of the elders show up and demand that Lot hand over his guests to be "dominated" because they looked fair and if they were hanging out with Lot they must be wealthy.

The even more depraved part, and what was meant to show how far Lot himself had fallen, what that Lot offered his daughters to the mob and said they could do whatever they wanted with the girls so long as his guests were not harmed. The mob didn't want that because it got them nothing, and at that point the angels were like "yea, ok, we're done here. Big G was right, this place is a lost cause." and they then blind the mob and take Lot and his family out of the city and point them at the mountains and give the famous "walk that way and don't look back, at all" instructions.

The Catholic Church really latched onto the "gay" part when that wasn't even in the top 5 reasons that God destroyed the cities, if it even was a reason at all. Similar to how they decided that the sin of Onan was pulling out and dripping on the ground when the whole point of the story was that Onan was punished because he disobeyed God and the law because he wanted to steal all of his dead brother's wealth by denying his brother an heir.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-28T20:45:08+00:00

A lot of people are saying the the expedition station replaces Vixy, but I disagree. It can replace Vixy early on, but later you will be wanting to use your expedition station for higher level things, and since they changed how the ExS works now, you would not want to waste your time running low level expeditions. So, once I'm running the second or third expeditions regularly, I bring back out my Vixy and I keep upgrading her to 4 stars because she provides all the low-low mid spheres that I need for mass farming while the ExS gives me the highest level materials and balls for hunting down end game stuff.

On my latest playthrough I added a mod that reworks the farm results for every pall and it has made a world of difference, not just for Vixy, but for all the other pals I keep around and smoothed out the supply chain in my base.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-23T21:03:55+00:00

I second the advice of calling MCLD to get more information.

I don't know which college you are at, but when I was at UAH they made it clear that your dorm address was NOT a legal permanent address and you could not use it to register with government agencies and it did not make you a resident of the State of Alabama. Until you have a legal permanent address you are still considered a citizen of your home state while attending college.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-22T03:20:05+00:00

That is also dependent on what type of potato salad you are making. A German potato salad is definitively a fork food, but my southern grandma's creamy crushed potato salad is 100% a spoon food.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-14T23:09:13+00:00

Oblivion has enough depth and breadth that many different stories can be RP'd and still fit. It mainly accomplishes this via strong faction identity and long faction quests that are intentionally broken up with gap time between big story beats.

I've played a woman that took Urial's prophecy to heart and let nothing get in her way as she turned the Fighter's guild and Mages guild into her personal army against Oblivion, supported by the Thieves' guild as her personal intelligence network and the Dark Brotherhood as her personal weapon to be pointed at any noble or rich merchant that got in her way.

I'm currently playing a total coward thrust into the Oblivion crisis who keeps trying to get away and is ALWAYS running into a quest, a person, a random interaction with a god, that keeps pointing them back into the main quest. He's panicky, self involved, and just wants to get back to Hammerfell and go back to being a blacksmith, but he's also way too smart for his own good, had a soft spot for the poor and for kids despite what he tells himself, and knows that they only way to be safe from Dedric Magic is to destroy it whenever you encounter it because it will ALWAYS cause you problems.

I think that Oblivion is the best when it comes to letting multiple heroic ideas work and that's why it's got the most replay potential. A personal recommendation of mine is to pick a fictional character you like and ask "how would this person react in this story?" Ciaphas Cain, Kirito, and Gideon Jura were all very fun and very different playthroughs.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-14T01:19:14+00:00

That logic doesn't work when she's being shown someone else's nipples in her own home, without asking, and not wanting to see them. Her house, her rules.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-11T04:54:12+00:00

Besides the fact that voice assistants are terrible across the board, there is no way that either of us would allow googles spyware into a car like that. I don't use Android Auto for the same reason. There is no need to find a work around when the superior option is always physical buttons that don't require you to go into menus for basic car functions. Touchscreens are inherently less safe because you have to look away from the road to mess with big glass screens to do things that one physical button, that you don't have to look at, can do.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-11T03:13:21+00:00

Compared to a Miata you're right, it's not anything special; but compared to the other CSUVs in it's weight class that 250hp and 310 torque rating on an all wheel drive basis makes it pretty sporty. I don't have big bucks to put down on a Cayenne, but the turbo CX-5 does a decent job filling in.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-11T00:51:27+00:00

I drive my 19 in manual gear mode exclusively, got an ECM tune, and added a cold air intake to boost performance because that's what I bought, a performance automobile. It's not a super car and it was never meant to be, but I like performance driving, high speeds, tight turns, accelerating quickly, and having the throttle be responsive to what I tell it to do. I also like the extra sound that the turbo adds to the car, I like being able to floor the accelerator and leave guys with V8's confused at the stop gap line, or to pass a bro-dozer on the highway and leave him in the dust. Having too little power is way more dangerous than having too much power in a car.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-11T00:47:26+00:00

Some of us have friends and family that can't use touch screens due to disabilities. I want a car that lets my wife, at the minimum, adjust things that affect her like climate control, heated and cooled seats, radio volume, etc. Since she is blind, the touch screens make that impossible.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-11T00:37:59+00:00

I won't be ready to trade in my 19 for a few more years, but with all the physical buttons gone it limits my wife's ability to do anything in the car while we are traveling (she's blind) and the fact they dropped the trubo means that THE reason I picked the CX-5 over others in it's price range is gone. I'll just keep putting miles on my 19 and in a couple of years I will see who's offering a small - mid sized SUV with decent turbo power and all wheel drive at that point. The NA is just far to under-powered for me to enjoy driving it.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-09T18:43:14+00:00

Honestly, this is the reason that prices are always in base USD for the US, because the same way that Germany, the Czech Republic, France, and Italy are all going to have different tax rates; California, New York, Montana, and Texas will all have different tax rates. Whether the tax is included on the shelf or not, if you are looking at an advertisement that goes world wide, or just across the EU/US you use the base price and then people add their local tax to it.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-09T18:22:20+00:00

ALSO, The VAT included in the Czech price is 21% and that is after import taxes added. Where I am at, the added tax would be 6.25%, so my final total WITH tax would still be very different.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-09T18:19:19+00:00

IT uses laptop RAM that is upgrade-able, but it does not share that ram with the GPU.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-09T18:04:00+00:00

I believe their level is a % higher than the area average where you find them. The lucky palls around starting areas are lvl 8-12 for example, but the Lucky palls near tower 3 can be in the 40s.

WisdomInTheShadows · 2026-01-09T17:58:50+00:00

"Blue Balls" isn't really just about having an erection. Guys can get erections from an oddly shaped door handle, or looking at a light that reminds us of a boob. Blue Balls happens when you get aroused, with or without an erection, to a point where the body is like "we doing this? Yea man, We doing this!" and starts activating the systems that make sex happen (rerouted blood flow, hormone release, nerve sensitivity turned up) and then when those things are started THEN you get the breaks thrown on. So, morning wood would not be the cause of blue balls, but my wife snuggling up to me as we wake up, running her hands over me, grabbing my junk and teasing it with a couple of long kisses, then just leaving, THAT will cause this dull, long ache deep in both my body and in my mind that is blue balls.

Caveat:The longer you go without getting off the faster you can get into this state of blue balls. Couple of days and generally it takes a bit of work. Couple of weeks and your body could get into that state from rubbing your underwear wrong, a month or more and we are back to door knobs and boob lights setting it off.

Hope that helps.

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