Geting my Mac set up is driving me nuts

Going nuts because of macOS Monterey

Switching from Windows to macOS is driving me nuts. Programs that are supposed to “just work” are not working. Emacs, which I rely on for technical writing (nothing to do with my art projects) is giving me a depressingly bad time. To regain my sanity, I decided to install VirtualBox and run Emacs in Linux…but Monterey doesn’t support VirtualBox in a simple way. It took 2 hours of hacking to get it working. Monterey is so paranoid it’s putting me into a bad mood.

On the other hand, while my eye (the right one) is healing, I need a temporary pair of glasses with a special prescription. Unfortunately, simple dollar store reading glasses won’t work. I eventually decided to buy some prescription glasses online from Zenni.