TIFU by using my laptop like a boomer for 8 years

I bought a new laptop 9 years ago. I don’t remember exactly when, but sometime in the early days of owning the laptop the “swipe with two fingers on the touchpad to scroll up/down” stopped working. I couldn’t find out why, it just… stopped.

It being a new laptop, I wasn’t going to buy a new one, and I should have got it fixed on the warranty but… Idk, I was an idiot. So for the last 8-ish years, I have been using my laptop like a boomer, moving the cursor to the scrollwheel every time I want to scroll up/down. This is bad on its own, but particularly bad considering I am a professional tech guy who is often looking at code files that are several thousand lines long.

I don’t know exactly what I did last night, but this morning I accidentally touched the scrollpad with a few fingers and… it scrolled.

My laptop was never broken.

This probably could have changed at any point in the last 6-7 years and I wouldn’t have noticed – I had just accepted that it didn’t work.

I feel high.

TL;DR: I had something running in the background which had me scrolling webpages with the scrollbar for 8 years, convinced that my laptop was broken. It was not, and I was being an idiot for pretty much that whole time.