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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
So the Rblind.com server is extremely busy! So busy, in fact, that it was down for four months and nobody noticed. Anyway, it's back now; irc.rblind.com if you want that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@jcsteh @jscholes @FreakyFwoof I actually find it slightly better to navigate on Windows. Mac gets deeply confused by the channel list that should really be a treeview sometimes.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@jscholes @FreakyFwoof Also there are some tab traps. Sometimes you can't get to stuff like the close participants button and have to just tab around that dialogue forever.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@bermudianbrit @FreakyFwoof There's a setting in Zoom to only send each person the summary of the parts of the meeting they were there for.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@quanin @FreakyFwoof It is. Things work on one machine fine, and don't work on another one. And both machines are identical hardware created from a corporate image. I dunno. I think it's because Zoom created their own accessibility stack instead of using a library like AccessKit, so the way they implement the API's isn't battle-tested the way it is for other apps.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@FreakyFwoof Yes, AI summaries are amazing. We have Zoom's sales management thing, so I can actually get insights across multiple meetings. Wonderful when I'm meeting with two or three different teams about the same project.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@FreakyFwoof Access to stuff like in-meeting chat and files has been slowly getting more and more awkward on Zoom. The calendar synchronization sometimes just quits for no reason. Sometimes sending calendar invites aren't sent with the settings you configured for them. Sometimes pre-meeting notifications just don't happen. Raise hand and other interactions often don't get read out. Sometimes the recording and AI disclaimers don't get screen reader focus. The same happens to poles sometimes. Especially on mac, sometimes sharing audio from a screen share just breaks for no reason. Where I work, we use Zoom for everything (meetings, corporate chat, files, whiteboards, documents, notes, contact and calendar management, the phone system), so I'm often in five or six hours of Zoom meetings a day. The meeting quality itself has stayed excellent. But it's all the other things around it on Zoom that are slowly getting worse. And it's those same things that are slowly improving on Teams.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof It's better than it used to be. And zoom is worse than it used to be. I suspect at some point they'll intersect and everything will suck.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
Man, Joplin is so good. The issue is just remembering to use it! I'm just so used to opening notepad and writing random notes and saving them to a textfile somewhere and then losing the textfile.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@atherjammoa The Stardew installer can't be used because the latest Stardew update needs new mods, and they're still pulling the old ones.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@TSchulte Yeah, that was my problem.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@atherjammoa So on my system, it created a directory named %appdata% and moved the files there. I didn't even know you could name a directory that LOL!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
Fixed: one of the mods got copied to the wrong place.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
Just in case: Does anyone know what's up with the accessibility mod? I get the following on running the game after first install:
Oops! Something went wrong:
engine/controller.lua​:395:​ attempt to index global 'BlackHole' to a nil value
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@kev Any that have a usbc dongle and aren’t Bluetooth are usually fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
Related: thinking your wireless keyboard does really, really strange things when it's at the limit of its range, only to go upstairs and investigate, to find your cat is sitting contentedly on the nice warm laptop. Also, my cat would like to tell the fediverse the following: ewljk;rtfhe[dospgwi'.6m5-/095=xaq3x2ahfpo[jwd0sgie9kqulr;4xzvn.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
Using your wireless headphones and keyboard at the absolute limit of their range, on a different floor from the computer itself, because you didn't want to move your laptop.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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It has been zero days since I got nicoled.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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6557681 posts, from 11303 instances, and none of them good.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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work based on the writing of a transphobic author Another Harry Potter I enjoyed. Contains LGBTQIA2S+ representation.
SNAKES ARE VERY NICE by Oulixeus: "At four years old, Harry decides that he would like to be a snake when he grows up. A story following Harry as he wills himself to become more and more serpentine - to the discomfort, bafflement, and horror of everyone around him." archiveofourown.org/works/35855626