Apparently a lot of manufacturers ship monitors with identical serial numbers, so the os can’t identify them.
That way it would be up to the user to plug the same screen into the same port, which I think I could handle.
Plus I can see the serials are actually different, so just going by serials should work.
Or it should just tell you "hey buddy, you've got two screens with the same serial and that's why I don't know what to do"
Yes, this is the strange thing. It's not like it's guessing which monitor is which, it's always swapped.
IMO there is no objective reason why turning a plastic wheel towards or away from the screen should be the natural choice for scrolling down a webpage. It's just something that some people are used to.
My head sees scrolling on a touchpad, the Magic Mouse and a wheeled mouse as the same thing — and I even set my Windows gaming machine so that the mouse scrolls "naturally" like my Mac.
(To me, the scroll wheel is reflecting the scroll bar on-screen, so I'm pushing it up or pulling it down. A touch area more naturally resembles the rest of the page/window, so I'm on board with 'natural scroll' - I'm pushing the page up or pulling it down.)
Hard disagree. I move the mousewheel down to go down the page, and up to go up. That's natural.
Swiping around my desktop screens and apps like it's a tablet makes no sense. It's the very first thing I turn off on all Macs.
The idea that you are touching the document and directly manipulating it and pushing the document up is a touch interaction model. Mouse interaction moves the cursor/view. It’s not “natural” but it’s in accordance with decades of mouse behaviour that “toward your body” is down.
Speaking of, “page down” acts like moving the page up. Mouse wheel down (towards you) matches page down, which is agreeable.
[1] Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40038759
Windows had this problem for AGES if you had 1 or more DisplayPort monitors connected, and I think it was in 2020 that they finally fixed it. I used to use this utility [0] to remember my layout, then when I learned that the problem was DP I started making sure I had enough HDMI/DVI ports on my graphics card(s) to avoid DP altogether.
Now I keep it running anyway because it's incredibly convenient in case I accidentally minimize all my windows and then reopen one or something.
Maybe something similar exists for Mac?
Found this from a post here on HN a few weeks ago, but apparently manufacturers of monitors don't bother to give the monitors unique machine ids, except in batches. Since everyone's two monitors are almost always from the same batch, they can't be told apart on a hardware level. I thought I had struck paydirt in that HN post (a tool that helped with this), but since the two monitors of mine aren't plugged directly into the Mac, the tool can't fix it for me. It would have to somehow work on the level of the docking station. If I didn't have bad luck, wouldn't have any at all?
But it's so much worse than you describe. In theory, I should be able to hit F3, see the little "desktops" at the top, and drag the one from the left monitor over to the right, and then vice versa. But somehow, there's always one virtual desktop that can't be dragged in this manner, and it's always the one with the applications.
The other thing that annoys me is that it changes the background when I've already chosen just to have black as my background on all screen. Works for a few days, then next time I log in, there's a photo instead. Why, Apple?
They also don't let you use the native resolution of the screens very easily. I had to install BetterDisplay to get this working, and even that isn't great.