I left it out in the post, but I’ve thought about this several times but always assumed the problem was something more complicated. OSX has weird mouse wheel behavior that’s hard to turn off[1], so I first assumed this was an extreme case of mouse wheel acceleration and I was turning it too slow. Experiments confirmed that spinning the wheel faster[2] fixed the problem, so mystery solved right?
As far as I know, the only way to fix this is by messing with the kernel, with software like SteerMouse, which I’m not allowed to install at my current job.
I left it out in the post, but I’ve thought about this several times but always assumed the problem was something more complicated. OSX has weird mouse wheel behavior that’s hard to turn off[1], so I first assumed this was an extreme case of mouse wheel acceleration and I was turning it too slow. Experiments confirmed that spinning the wheel faster[2] fixed the problem, so mystery solved right?
As far as I know, the only way to fix this is by messing with the kernel, with software like SteerMouse, which I’m not allowed to install at my current job.
Which incidentally requires a lot more force and increases the friction between the wheel and the rubber.