Logitech users on macOS found themselves locked out of their mouse customizations yesterday after the company let a security certificate expire, breaking both its Logi Options+ and G HUB configuration apps. Logitech devices like its MX Master series mice and MX Keys keyboards stopped working properly as a result of the oversight, with users unable to access their custom scrolling setup, button mappings, and gestures.
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.
Logitech actually did drop the ball.
Already installed software keeps running when the cert expires unless the cert is revoked. Apple didn’t revoke the cert. Logitech did something wonky.
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/1/2.html
What’s even more insane? Apple has their OWN products that are no longer usable without hackery because their certificates have expired.
Then again, the alternative to all this is the Windows world where old drivers are now the method used to shovel malicious software onto the system, so there’s really no winning proposition.
Let me direct you this way… !linux@lemmy.world
Eventually Linux will be there, and this may be the year of SteamOS, but I can’t imagine the overlap of people using Linux as a desktop OS and people using custom configurations of Logitech input devices is all that large, outside people who can write their own systemd services and conf files from scratch. Just not the same user space.
you’re absolutely begging to be told about the world of penguins
I was indeed :D
I was leaving why I left that out as an exercise to the reader.
Actually, your car loses homologation and is not allowed to drive on public roads if your manufacturer decides to update the software without approval from the authorities in some countries (like Germany and other European countries)