Oct. 9th, 2020
Really, I didn't manage all that much today. I did a Zoom meeting using the tablet, with Ajani and Sorin helping as usual, and Ajani rubbed against the tablet in such fashion as to reverse the direction of the camera. Fortunately, the other side of the room didn't look too bad, and once I poked at the screen a bit I figured out how to fix it.
My next big technology achievement was to overcome my frustration with getting my bluetooth keyboard to work with the tablet, which I knew it had done in the past, to a sufficient degree that I realized that I should just as J. for help. The tablet was insisting that it couldn't find any bluetooth devices, even with the previously paired keyboard right on top of it. J. realized that when the blue light on the keyboard started flashing more rapidly I should stop pressing the bluetooth key, rather than continuing, which turned the bluetooth back off again. Silly devices.
Oh, and before that, we had issues with the new version of the Collapse arcade game that J. had downloaded; we'd loved the original and he found Collapse 3. But only one of us could play - the other controller seemed to be doing crazy things. Then we tried original Collapse, and now both controllers were crazy. It turned out that both controllers were trying to play both people's sides at once! And with the other game, only one controller was functioning but it was doing both sides! When we figured that out I laughed until my stomach hurt. He was able to fix it.
My next big technology achievement was to overcome my frustration with getting my bluetooth keyboard to work with the tablet, which I knew it had done in the past, to a sufficient degree that I realized that I should just as J. for help. The tablet was insisting that it couldn't find any bluetooth devices, even with the previously paired keyboard right on top of it. J. realized that when the blue light on the keyboard started flashing more rapidly I should stop pressing the bluetooth key, rather than continuing, which turned the bluetooth back off again. Silly devices.
Oh, and before that, we had issues with the new version of the Collapse arcade game that J. had downloaded; we'd loved the original and he found Collapse 3. But only one of us could play - the other controller seemed to be doing crazy things. Then we tried original Collapse, and now both controllers were crazy. It turned out that both controllers were trying to play both people's sides at once! And with the other game, only one controller was functioning but it was doing both sides! When we figured that out I laughed until my stomach hurt. He was able to fix it.