the new external keyboard does work a lot better when i don't forget to somehow disable the old internal keyboard it is resting on LOL

i swear though that there used to be a setting for this. like just. "hey laptop, when i have an external device delivering keyboard/mouse input, please turn off your internal ones." i swear this used to be just like a toggle. but now i have to trick windows into obeying me lol. is this just a fever dream of common sense on my part? who knows