Can I send my X-55 repair bill to Fdev?

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Can I just leave this here?

My Pip-switch broke because I have no way to CHECK if a material laying down in front of me is within my inventory at X amount.
By constantly having to press my PIP-switch to navigate through (ONLY UP & DOWN) the material list. Checking if its even interesting in the first place, because I have no way to pin my favorite blue printS.

These switches are made to last at-least 60.000 presses. The AFTER-Market that one is.


 

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Yeah I really wish it just showed in the contact list you know, Material: Iron (953) where (X) is QTY On Hand. Then I could simply take the max qty of each category, divide it by the number of items in the category, and just know that I can carry 17 of everything (or whatever) and that'd give me 17 rolls of any given blueprint if full just to keep it simple.
 

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EValve said:
Can I just leave this here?

My Pip-switch broke because I have no way to CHECK if a material laying down in front of me is within my inventory at X amount.
By constantly having to press my PIP-switch to navigate through (ONLY UP & DOWN) the material list. Checking if its even interesting in the first place, because I have no way to pin my favorite blue printS.

These switches are made to last at-least 60.000 presses. The AFTER-Market that one is.
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60,000 presses? That's a poor quality switch right there. Buy a better stick tbh.
 

Raino

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maybe if you find a lawyer in the system you have been when it broke?..................
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Stealthie

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Pretty sure Skyrim was a significant contributor to the early demise of my previous Logitech G502 mouse, as a result of crafting thousands upon thousands of iron bloody daggers over the years.

Still, not as bad as the days of Daley Thompson's decathlon being absolute murder on my Spectrum's joysticks and even killing off a couple of "arcade quality" Kempston joysticks.
 

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Asp Explorer said:
You replaced stock switches with aftermarket and expect anyone but yourself to fix? :D
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You're right, I'd imply I already broke the stock ones using ED lol! But no, they're stock on my stick but the after-market ones are valued at 60k presses, which imho sounds a fair bit more than what Saitek would go for in their current iteration LoL!
 

dayrth

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Of course you can sent it to them. They won't pay it though.

You know that you can map up/down to any key or button you like and even to two different buttons each, right. As for the blueprints, I jot down the mats I want on a bit of paper. Not ideal, but it works. Saves a lot of faffing about in the menus.
 
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DefiledDragon said:
60,000 presses? That's a poor quality switch right there. Buy a better stick tbh.
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There's 4 in the Pip switch, which would translate to 240k presses but since only up & down broke I'm looking at it individually. If you know of any better switches available in EU then be my guest and suggest!
 

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ThriveInDark said:
Yeah I really wish it just showed in the contact list you know, Material: Iron (953) where (X) is QTY On Hand. Then I could simply take the max qty of each category, divide it by the number of items in the category, and just know that I can carry 17 of everything (or whatever) and that'd give me 17 rolls of any given blueprint if full just to keep it simple.
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A thousand times yes.
 

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How much longer until I can prove FD conspires with switch-manufacturers to increase their sales!
This design must have no other reason no? [haha]
 

Asp Explorer

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EValve said:
How much longer until I can prove FD conspires with switch-manufacturers to increase their sales!
This design must have no other reason no? [haha]
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That's nothing compared to HP with their 840G Ultrabook :D

70%+ battery failure on those babies - apart from deforming the lower case cover, keyboard and trackpad, some of the particularly expanded ones have caused screen cracks :D

$1000 laptop killed by a $40 battery HP were too cheap to third source ;)
 
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ThriveInDark said:
Yeah I really wish it just showed in the contact list you know, Material: Iron (953) where (X) is QTY On Hand. Then I could simply take the max qty of each category, divide it by the number of items in the category, and just know that I can carry 17 of everything (or whatever) and that'd give me 17 rolls of any given blueprint if full just to keep it simple.
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Material count is part of the log/journal file, so if you use a tool like EDDiscovery it will show you what materials you currently have.
 

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Asp Explorer said:
That's nothing compared to HP with their 840G Ultrabook :D

70%+ battery failure on those babies - apart from deforming the lower case cover, keyboard and trackpad, some of the particularly expanded ones have caused screen cracks :D

$1000 laptop killed by a $40 battery HP were too cheap to third source ;)
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It's almost like they had no idea that switching to lithium polymer batteries for crazier form factors was brand new to them and they had no idea that the batteries _WILL_ always puff out over time (sometimes not much time).

Pretty much anyone in the RC model world could have told them that years before they started putting these guys in hard plastic cases with no internal empty space. Storing lithium polymer batteries fully charged for longer than a week is going to puff them over time. Discharging at high temp too. Fun stuff.
 

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DefiledDragon said:
https://www.omron.com/ecb/products/search/?cat=2&did=1&prd=basic-v&lang=en

Omron switches are rated in the 10's of million clicks, for example my mouse is fitted with Omron switches rated for 20,000,000 clicks.
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I think there's one of the switches that isokix's website referred to that come from the Omron website indeed, might've been that one or the other at 60k clicks but it all depends on the Newton they're set to. Some tactile switches are even set to 5k on Omron.
 

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Asp Explorer said:
That's nothing compared to HP with their 840G Ultrabook :D

70%+ battery failure on those babies - apart from deforming the lower case cover, keyboard and trackpad, some of the particularly expanded ones have caused screen cracks :D

$1000 laptop killed by a $40 battery HP were too cheap to third source ;)
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If we go with the naming and shaming of other corps I don't think the list will ever expire ! haha. When you actually get involved with some of their inside procedures it gets beyond ridiculous.
 

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DrewCarnegie said:
Material count is part of the log/journal file, so if you use a tool like EDDiscovery it will show you what materials you currently have.
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I know... I'm resorting to Inara when I need to trash half of my mats.
Not familiar with EDDiscovery but I've seen some overlays and they either look absolutely horrible or interfere with Voice-attack, joystick profiles and what-not.

I'm looking into it. Nonetheless this is something I expect from the people I threw my pennies at. Seems like I didn't throw them hard enough lol [haha]
 

Asp Explorer

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Darth Ender said:
It's almost like they had no idea that switching to lithium polymer batteries for crazier form factors was brand new to them and they had no idea that the batteries _WILL_ always puff out over time (sometimes not much time).
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Oh you should see some of the 1U UPS junk - some of them literally split the welds off racks, and lead to some very interesting situations. You just can't fix cheap customers though.
 
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