stackyFACTSEvery peripheral has a definitive expiration date hidden inside its plastic shell.
Every peripheral has a definitive expiration date hidden inside its plastic shell. Beneath the primary buttons sits a tiny piece of curved copper known as a microswitch. Every time you click, you are violently bending this small copper leaf downward. After a few million frantic clicks, metal fatigue inevitably sets in, the copper permanently warps, and the mouse begins agonizingly double-clicking on everything you touch.
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