Fixing my scroll wheel broke the case for switching mom to a Mac

Written with Claude. The scroll wheel that only works if you mean it Three days into using a MacBook as my daily driver, and I had one persistent annoyance: rolling my Logitech mouse wheel slowly, one notch at a time, did nothing. The page just sat there. Roll it with real intent, with the kind of spin you’d use to get somewhere fast, and the page lurched forward. The trackpad, six inches to the right on the same machine, tracked an arbitrarily slow two-finger drag without skipping a beat. Same laptop, same OS, same scroll event as far as any application should care. ...

May 15, 2026 · 10 min · 1963 words · Chris Hughes

Cool Runnings: Pi 5 NVMe Upgrade Results

Upgrading a Raspberry Pi 5 from SD card to NVMe storage. 28x faster I/O, 35°C cooler temps, and whether it’s worth $130.

January 19, 2026 · 3 min · 589 words · Chris Hughes