I don’t want to brag, but I just had a Tim Tam Slam. @martinfeld @burk

Hemispheric Views is Go!

I’m excited to have worked with two other great people to put something new out into the world. Working with Jason Burk and Martin Feld, we have released the first episode of a new podcast, Hemispheric Views.

Our topics for this first episode range across condiments, technology and the price of petrol. Over time we anticipate the show will have a technology bias but we are interested to explore how Martin and I as Australians interpret things in comparison to Jason in the USA.

I’m proud of this first episode and I’ve got high hopes for our continuous improvement.

If you can find the time to have a listen, that would be amazing. Ideally, you’ll enjoy it enough that you will subscribe in your favourite podcast player app, and tell a friend about the show.

Get on board with the micro.blog gaming sessions that @burk has organised. I’m rubbish at games but still had a blast. Definitely no need to be a hard-core gamer.

Just a few hours until the Micro.blog gaming session. I look forward to losing badly @burk

I’ve upgraded to a Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM fan in my OWC Thunderbay RAID array. I should have done this a long time ago. The noise has always bothered me. It’s so much more quiet now. Best $32 I’ve spent in a while.

Launchbar has been updated. In the release notes it mentions search engine Ecosia. I’d never heard of it. Seems a laudable idea.

International Beard Day, you say?

I’ve been reassessing my note-taking apps again - that’s something that happens on a too-regular basis. NotePlan had been good, but I’m not keen on the v3 upgrade pricing. DEVONthink has shown it can work like NotePlan too. The answer is always DEVONthink. @jack @twelvety

Am I correct in thinking that each President of the USA leaves a letter in the Oval Office’s desk drawer, addressed to the incoming President?

If so, I wonder what Trump would write to Biden?

And I wonder how that would compare to the one that Obama left Trump…

Great to have the Micro Monday podcast back in the mix. Thanks @macgenie and @agilelisa

One of the greatest things I discovered in Japan. Put soy sauce on vanilla ice cream.

My iPad battery has seen better days and I’ve been contemplating an upgrade. But if the new Apple Silicon laptop is going to be a 12” MacBook Adorable, that might be a better investment. Tricky decisions approaching.

Photoblogging Challenge Day 31: A photo of a photo depicting love on our wedding day in 2005. 📷 #mbaug

No, I haven't found a fix for Logitech Mouse Judder

I recently wondered if I had found the solution to fixing the judder I get from the Logitech MX Master 3 mouse on a Mac.

Turns out, no, I had not.

Today the judder has returned.

Incidentally this is with the Logitech dongle.

So frustrating.

Photoblogging Challenge Day 30: It’s generally possible to make a discovery of something weird in the garden. 📷 #mbaug

Photoblogging Challenge Day 29: grated carrot flake(s) 📷 #mbaug

Have I Found a Fix for Logitech Mouse Judder?

2020-08-31 Update: No, I have not found the fix.

I mentioned in Episode 15 of Keep Practising that my Logitech mouse was giving me the #$%@s with respect to the amount of judder and unresponsiveness on macOS. This problem exhibited irrespective of whether it was connected to Bluetooth or the Logitech dongle.

Good news. I may have found a solution. Early days yet, but since applying this fix I haven’t experienced the issue again.

I can’t take credit for the fix. That goes to ‘rubytraindriver’ on Reddit/r/MacOS.

The suggestion was to remove, and then re-add, both Logitech Options and Logitech Options Daemon from the Mac’s Accessibility options, within the Security & Privacy preferences pane, Privacy tab.

This simple - but entirely obfuscated and obscure fix - offers another example of how infuriating the Catalina macOS security model is for users.

I’m not on the Big Sur beta, but I hope that it does better at this stuff than Catalina.

I think I’m a full-time Firefox user now.

Aw man. Now I have to wait another whole week for a new Ted Lasso. 📺

Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: emotions 📷 #mbaug

The United States is a shitshow right now. I feel for the many good people I know in the country who are having to cope with it all. A pandemic, murderous police, climate change, crumbling social infrastructure… All being enabled by a crooked kakistocracy. 😢 🇺🇸

Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: This white Australian is overcome with sadness for black Americans. 📷 #mbaug

Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: relentless: “a patient but relentless taskmaster” 📷 #mbaug

Keep Practising 15: The Value of Friendships

If there’s one thing I’ve learnt in 2020, it’s that friendships are important. I’m getting better at making and maintaining them, but there’s always work to be done.

In Nerd Corner I vent about the poor connectivity of my Logitech MX Master 3 mouse.

Like the show? You’re welcome to buy me a coffee as a vote of thanks!

Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: hope Jeremiah 29:11 📷 #mbaug