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I’ve been using the offline version of Options+ that somebody recommended me a while back, it removes AI and auto updating and has done the job for me.

It’s kind of hidden on their website but you can grab it here:

https://hub.sync.logitech.com/options/post/logi-options-offl...

That said I think this will be my last Logitech device. They’re just not very durable products and die too quickly

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Thanks for pointing this out. I had no idea it existed. The other options in the comments just didn't quite work the way I would like.

- The main topic requires me to pull python dependencies, build, run manually on Mac - All others can't reassign the button below the scroll wheel on the MX Master 3/4

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I switched to the offline version right after Logitech forcefully and without my permission downloaded and installed bunch of crap software on my Mac. I was furious that a stupid mouse driver app has the right to install a random crapware. I’m still fuming about it when I remember it.
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125.8MB right now

20 years ago that would be insane (many machines still had only 512MB of RAM total), and "AI Prompting" sounds like satire, and yet this is the reality we're in now --- all that just to configure a mouse.

Personally my mouses don't need anything more than the OS' default settings.

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My first machine with a mouse had 1 meg of ram. Mouse.sys was loaded into himem from memory and used something like 30kb of precious memory.

My first wheel mouse which looks exactly like my current mouse ran on my 4meg 486.

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> It does use more RAM than I'd like (125.8MB right now).

For me it regularly ballooned to 1+ GB somehow, until I removed it entirely in favor of BetterMouse.

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