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I'm on arch with plasma version 6.6.5, wayland

What happens:

My cursor is stuck in one place on the screen. Any attempt at moving results in scrolling and sideways moving zooms in (sometimes weirdly/not reliably). Happened around 7-ish times in the past month.
Has anyone else experienced something like this?

When:

Im sorry but i cannot seem to precisely determine the exact cause for this due to the random timings when it occurs.
1)But for the most part it seems to happen after my palm touches the track pad while it's a little moist. I do clean the track pad thoroughly to make sure the basically non existent water isn't causing the issue but that doesn't fix it.
2)Another time my stomach was on the very bottom of my track pad and it happened, idek if my stomach was touching the actual sensor which detects movement.

Fixes:

1. Restarting, my first solution
2. Randomly clicking every button on my touch pad in a frenzy.
3. ofc these aren't reliable fixes and i would like a permanent fix

Specs:
I have a Dell latitude 7480 (i5 6th gen, around 10 years old i think). And any attempt to google this only results in generic problems relating to the touch pad, i can't seem to get the exact wording for this.

ps:
Im very new with the whole linux community and kde as a whole (been here about a month) so forgive me if this was a stupid thing to post.

Right now I've opted to just right clicking the pop up --> going to more actions --> then keep above others. But this is so annoying, and i would rather have it automatically do this.
Any window specialization rules i set up applies to the browser itself rather than the pop up which messes with my muscle memory and is just inconvenient.
Looked online and have found no solutions to this. The plasma integration extension doesn't fix this either

Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, im a linux and reddit noob

Context: I am a very new linux user using arch as their first distro (yes ik, i have my reasons)

Story time:

I just had the weirdest experience today. In the morning i was getting used to using the zen browser, and figured out you could middle click tabs to unload them. But there was an issue with this, that is, when i did unload them the tab icon did not fade out. After consulting with lord gpt, i changed the about:config to make it so that it did fade out. Now the issue was that after i did this every tab seemed to lag, like i expect some lag due to my old pc, but this was way above normal. But it wasn't too bad so i paid it no thought. Things that happened for the two hours i used it after was; youtube videos not syncing properly with video (audio played fine but video was unwatchable, thought this was due to youtube's battle against ublock, restarting fixed it), the appimage i use for melonds (Nintendo DS emulator) not working (it said it was due to incompatible qt library but that doesn't make sense cus it's an appimage right, everything should come within the appimage (i though maybe dependencies like qt didn't count there so i just looked for other solutions), i just deleted the appimage, discovered the yay package for it downloaded the -bin version (my pc will become the next sun if i compile it i think), idk if it's the latest version of melonds but atp idc). After this i did not use my laptop for a long time, then came back, did some work other than with my browser, sure it was laggy, but it wasn't unusable. But the biggest thing that put me off was that spectacle took a while to load, and closing apps took a little while longer. Using the browser after this to watch some videos and it worked fine, but then i went back to my work then came back again and the browser started completely lagging again. Consulting with lord gpt, i had thought it was due to my turning on the fade unloaded tabs in about:config on my browser (ofc this is stupid cus the entire pc was lagging which i realize now, but i though the browser messed with my ram somehow). I restarted my computer, and it took 51 seconds (from systemd-analyze) when before it took around 18 seconds. This was along with other stuff i noticed during reboot; like a watchdog is still running warning, and the loading initial linux text being small when usually it is small then turns big (ter-132b) after which sddm loads, plasma also took longer to load. I asked chatgpt some stuff and all the stuff it asked me to check did seem bad/suspicious, so i gave whatever i got from the stuff it asked to check back to it. But before i read the response, the qt library being incompatible really bugged me, so i did a sudo pacman -Syu. This did the largest sudo pacman -Syu i have ever seen, it said some stuff i have never seen before. One thing that caught my eye was loading new arch linux 7.0.9 or something like that. After which the system was still laggy but i shut down then started (not reboot, cus i thought this would be more thorough for no particular reason), and now it works perfectly normal. I suspect not upgrading arch to the latest version was what caused this.

Is this what happens when you don't upgrade arch? Or is it like specifically a me issue? Any info regarding this is much appreciated.

Im sorry, i know this is extremely long, i am very bad at writing things concisely. I always feel the need to tell every bit of info i can ( i realize this is both good and bad ).
To anyone who reads this mess and responds, Thank you.

p.s.:
This experience was especially scary to me cus my laptop is such that if you hold it with one hand it blue screens ( or the screen doesn't work anymore on linux as no blue screen exists for linux ). This is due to a combination of the chassis touching the mother board and the ram de-slotting, the fix is usually tapping it in the back a couple of times, but ik this is not a permanent solution. I had thought the ram finally gave in and is why the pc is a laggy mess. But as i am typing i realize if the ram "gave in" then the pc wouldn't run at all.