beardedspice VS Scroll-Reverser

Beardedspice (Free) Mac Media Keys for the Masses, open source, however, the last update was in 2021, so if you have an issue 🤷‍♀️

Try out BeardedSpice[0] which handles the media keys

[0] https://github.com/beardedspice/beardedspice || brew install —cask beardedspice

Media Key Forward still works for me reliably but Bearded Spice is also an alternative.

There needs to be a way to hard-lock F8 to only operate Apple Music. High Sierra Media Key Enabler, later Mac Media Key Forwarder, used to do this. The GitHub suggest using Bearded Spice. I had been using that last year but it seems it's no longer working and the last update was in 2017.

beardedspice

Normal mice support is deliberately broken in macOS (so that you consider buying their Magic Mouse), but can be easily fixed with a 3rd party app like Scroll Reverser.

Same for me, long time user of https://github.com/pilotmoon/Scroll-Reverser

The Scroll Reverser app lets you reverse scrolling for mice while keeping natural scrolling for touchpads.

Mouse: I believe this requires 3rd party app, if there is MacOS option for that please enlighten me, I have a Logitech mouse and Logitech software has settings for that but there are other, non-brand specific tools e.g. scroll-reverser (available in brew or here), which BTW can also change behavior of the trackpad if you want those options modified in one place.

Agree on the scroll direction thing (though scroll reverser exists)

The sheer fucking arrogance of them telling the consumer which direction they're allowed to scroll their device is why the only Apple product I own is the company-provided Mac which I installed https://github.com/pilotmoon/Scroll-Reverser on to let me use the way I want to use it.

Make sure to download only the official build from https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/