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
Mondo Electronics
Mondo Electronics is a company I’ve helped as part of my job as an Entrepreneurs’ Programme Growth Facilitator.
They were kind enough to say some nice words about the value of the service to their business and me personally.
Working with companies like Mondo is what makes my job enjoyable.
3 Cheers for Tech Support
Recently I came across an annoying calendaring problem. I have a number of domain names, with associated email aliases. These all reconcile via my Fastmail account.
I noticed the other day that calendar invitations created in my calendar app of choice, BusyCal, were defaulting to being sent from one of my non-default email addresses.
There was no obvious setting for this in BusyCal and it was an issue that I hadn’t noticed at all over previous years so I assumed there was some problem at the server end. I checked Fastmail but its calendar settings were configured to send calendar events from my primary and preferred domain. Nevertheless, I fired a support ticket to Fastmail. Over the next few days (the one ding on Fastmail is slow support turnarounds) they verified my settings were correct. They inspected the logs generated by BusyCal created events, and tested things from their end. After all of this, they confirmed the problem was coming from BusyCal.
Off I went to BusyMac support. Their fast support turnaround confirmed that it was BusyCal causing the problem, and that the software had no ability to choose which email to send from - it took the first in the arbitrary list of available email addresses.
It didn’t end there, however. Soon after, I received an email saying that they had looked at the issue - agreed it wasn’t ideal, and built a new beta build that offered up an option to choose the originating email address for new events. They provided me a download link to this new beta.
It works perfectly. Now, BusyCal will create new event invitations from my preferred domain.
What really works, though, is tech support. These are the unsung heroes of software. Helping mere users like me get more out of their products. This is another reason why I am happy to pay for software. These people are doing real work, and like the rest of us, they deserve to get paid for what they do.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: frosty 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: graceful 📷 #mbaug
Ted Lasso is brilliant. Most enjoyable show I’ve watched in a long time.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 22: home 📷 #mbaug
The other day I was complaing about the lack of extensions in Safari. After hearing about Brett Terpstra @ttscoff talk about Workona I’m trialling it in Firefox. This thing is a game-changer. I’m loving it.