Meanwhile, the goose meme is chasing Apple shouting "Why do you need to track every pixel? WHY MOTHERFUCKER???"

Apple remains the least enshittified ecosystem (that remains usable – do NOT at me about Linux; I was probably using *nix professionally before you stopped watching Hannah Montannah), but I am constantly aware that they are not immune. I don't trust them much further than any others.

#Mac #Techsupport #enshittification

I've suspected the Scrivener scroll lag issue is the same as the keyboard lag issue, since they "feel" similar and both started with my major OS upgrade (not to the latest though, to avoid this kind of thing).

I did find my own workaround for the scroll lag in Scriv, but it doesn't always work. And keyboard lag continues off and on. I'm experimenting with reloads of apps, reboots, closing more windows/tabs, as I suspect it is performance-related, even though my mem usage is better than ever and CPU usage runs an average of under 2%. They're just finding new ways to make a super-computer equivalent all'round suck.

I checked the Scrivener forum thread on this issue (https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/laggy-scrolling/138479/146 ), to see if they'd recently figured anything out, and sure enough:

"The short and simple is that Apple at some point decided software needs to know about every single pixel as you scroll, alerting every component in the window that listens to whether or not the window state has changed. Such information overload can cause lag or inertial scrolling lock-outs."

Yeah, if you're tracking every pixel now "for some reason" (🤔) THAT WOULD DO IT.

I am beyond pissed. I paid quite a bit of money for this laptop not too many years ago. I got it to have a computer I didn't have to worry about. That was the #1 selling point: It just works.™ But now I'm having to consciously think about my keypresses, and bang hard which probably isn't great for the physical keys.

I will continue to hunt for things I can keep closed, and figure out which apps need reloading from time to time (what with Thunderbird leaking like an AI-managed corporate database) in the hopes of keeping key lag to a minimum. I left IT many years ago, but it seems I didn't, not really.

#Mac #Techsupport