TL;DR: If your game controller isn't working, it's not your fault. My apologies if you clicked on this post expecting to see a political discussion. It's difficult to talk about the real topic of this essay without using the word "left". The actual topic? Joystick drift on a PS5 controller. A trivial topic, to be sure. There…
If you regularly read this blog, you know that I've posted a lot about Baldur's Gate 3. You also may remember my long discursive posts on using a Macintosh desktop. Therefore, here's the post you've been waiting for: A lengthy description of my problems running BG3 on my Mac. (If I could, I would have added "...…
The principle reason I'm writing this post is that I just got off the phone with Apple Tech support. They gave me to answer to a question I asked them that's been asked in a couple of other places: Mac Messages Splitting Named Group Chat Into Unnamed But Same Group on the Apple Discussion Forums Group text…
For a lazy Sunday-morning blog post, and in the spirit of how one Googles oneself occasionally, I asked a question of ChatGPT: Tell me about William Seligman at Columbia University William Seligman is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He specializes in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and financial economics. His research interests include the study of financial…
It's been a while since my last tech post. Time for another one. The games Portal and Portal 2 are two of the best video games ever made. They're both basically puzzle games. What makes them different from other games? The clever use of space. The key tool of Portal is the "portal gun". It instantly connects…
About two years ago I wrote a series of posts on why I didn't want to upgrade the operating system on my 27-inch iMac. You've guessed it: I had to upgrade last October. That 2013 iMac was showing increasing problems, and there were software incompatibility issues that become too much to overlook. In this post, I'll review…
It had been a long time since I tried to use Microsoft Windows. Occasionally, there'd be times at work when someone with a Windows machine had a problem. I'd look at the screen, do a web search, and followed instructions. (That's what they pay me for!) But I really didn't work with Windows. I haven't actually fiddled…
Let's try to wrap this up. The story so far I listed four reasons why I didn't want to upgrade to Mojave: A bit of convenient entertainment would go away. Solution: None. No choice but to suck it up if I ever upgraded. I could no longer reprogram my universal remote. Solution: Maybe Logitech will eventually release…
Audiobooks I listen to a lot of audiobooks. And by "a lot," I mean this: There's a lot to unpack from this picture, including why I don't want to upgrade from Mojave. I've circled on the part to focus on first: While the picture only shows the first 31 files in my audiobook collection, I have a…
Keyboard About 15 years ago, I started developing pains in my forearms. It wasn't quite carpal tunnel; if it had been then the pain would never have fully gone away. But the pain did go away when I switched to using ergonomic keyboards. My first such keyboard was made by Adesso. It was a fine keyboard. I…