Shamelessly plugging SteerMouse

This one’s all on Logitech.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/1/2.html

Is this why my MX Master buttons suddenly stopped working properly this morning?

Logitech did not drop the ball. It is insane that a company needs to keep paying Apple or their customer's hardware stops working.

Max headroom 20 minutes into the future: Your Tesla won't start because the tire manufacturer didn't pay Tesla the yearly certificate renewal.

That said I didn't buy Logitech for my new PC because of their bloat.

As if constantly pushing more AI slop into their software while making no real improvements wasn't enough...

Reading the article, I don't see how AI code was the fault in this situation. They let a developer certificate lapse without renewing it, so actually seems more like a process or human error; either their systems didn't flag for upcoming renewal sufficiently or the alert was ignored or missed.

What mouse brand has a product similar to the MX Master that also works well in Linux?

The Developer ID certificate is the digital signature macOS uses to verify legitimate software. The certificate that Logitech allowed to lapse was being used to secure inter-process communications, which resulted in the software not being able to start successfully, in some cases leading to an endless boot loop.

This is 100% on Apple users for letting a company decide what their computer can and can't run. And then brag about its security like it has some super special zero trust architecture and is not just a walled garden with a single point of failure dependent on opaque decision making criteria for what code should be "allowed" to run on the system.

Key and signature based security model does not prove if it's safe, it proves if it's approved. They're not the same.

Macs don't get malware. Unless it's malware Apple approves, those are called apps.

Expired certs are a telling indicator of workplace chaos. This happens when good developers are replaced with much cheaper contractors, and all the shit the original devs did on the side gets lost.

It’s not the contractors’ fault. It’s short-sighted management that piss off good workers who can choose where they want to work.

For anyone looking for alternatives, LinearMouse is the best FOSS option (although I couldn’t get it to recognize the thumb button on my Logitech M720 Triathlon so this may extend to the Mx Master line as well)

Alternatively, BetterMouse ($7.99) and SteerMouse ($19.99) are solid options too. Both come with a free trial, 7 days, and 30 days respectively.

Move to keychron just in time