It means I get the best out of every machine at my disposal and unfortunately, also means I get the worst… daily.

The most recent issue I've faced happens to harken back to that Apple way of 'Thinking Differently'. While Microsoft spends a significant portion of their development time making sure that each new update won't negatively impact some random user that does something very niche, Apple will simply cut out things from the operating system that they no longer deem necessary.

With OS X Mojave, it appears there isn't support for certain absolute pointing devices (basically anything that isn't a standard mouse). I have a hefty and expensive secure KM switch that is designed to stitch multiple computers and monitors together into a seamless mouse and keyboard experience (like Synergy, but in hardware). Unfortunately, since this clearly isn't a 'standard' practice and most people will use the shitty tiny metal keyboard and rather useless 'Mighty Mouse' that can't be used while charging, Apple have dropped support for it entirely. Now to use my switch I have to move the mouse from the adjacent Windows machine to activate the seamless switching and move input to the Mac and then swap to the Mac mouse to continue mouse movement like an animal.

The switch apparently works just fine in older versions of Mac OS, but I fear will not work going forward. Since these devices are usually destined for use in control rooms, industrial plants or financial trader stations, they usually run around $1500. It also looks like Synergy is having problems with this update too, since I can't get that to work either, so I don't even have a software workaround. There are reports of other devices running into the same problem, so even if I were to shell out to upgrade to a newer one, there isn't even a guarantee that it would work with the latest Mac OS (or if it would even work with next years release for that matter).

Given it's worked perfectly fine on every other OS I've thrown at it, it's tiresome that I'm stuck with another instance of Apple simply saying that it's not a problem for a wide enough audience.