https://blog.chughes.co/tags/linearmouse/Recent content in Linearmouse on Chris Hughes | Development JournalHugo -- 0.164.0en-usFri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.chughes.co/posts/2026-05-15-fixing-my-scroll-wheel-broke-the-case-for-switching-mom-to-a/Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.chughes.co/posts/2026-05-15-fixing-my-scroll-wheel-broke-the-case-for-switching-mom-to-a/<p><em>Written with Claude.</em></p> <p><img alt="A USB wired mouse plugged into a sleek laptop, beside a dusty older laptop in the background" loading="lazy" src="https://blog.chughes.co/images/2026-05-15-fixing-my-scroll-wheel-broke-the-case-for-switching-mom-to-a/hero.svg"></p> <h2 id="the-scroll-wheel-that-only-works-if-you-mean-it">The scroll wheel that only works if you mean it</h2> <p>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&rsquo;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.</p>