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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.
keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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blog https://stuff.interfree.ca/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@TomGrant91 @mckensie @amir Right, but it's not missing. Tweesecake is stripping it out. It shows on every other client.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TomGrant91 @mckensie @amir I can tell. Because only people using tweesecake have this issue. Even TWBlue doesn't.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@TomGrant91 @mckensie @amir Your client is broken. There are urls in every client other than tweesecake.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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If you use in , an extremely uninteresting bugfix is now available. Previously, automatic language switching in NVDA didn't work for any language with a dialect specified, like English United States. This is now fixed. It literally just changes from calling languages en-gb and en-us to calling them en_gb and en_us to make NVDA happy. But if you need that, you can get the bugfix here: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v6
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mckensie @amir This is now fixed: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v6
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@atherjammoa Nah, AI is always right. Admins need to add something called "acephalon farfing" into sector 30.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
Sigh. Apparently this instance doesn't convert wav to anything. Here's an audio file that should work for cranky clients.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@atherjammoa They do. The plugins have moved to mushclient and everything.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Hmmm, I don't think my "Real ATC" plugin for Miriani-next is quite ready yet. For the uninitiated, is a space related (Well, actually, ). It generates flight control messages as ships take off and land. And I thought: what if I could have them voiced by AI, generating a random voice each time? There's a model called voxcpm that, if you don't feed it with any voice data, will just generate a voice of its own for your text. But...it's maybe not quite there. The original text I gave it was "This is Outreach to sector 30 flight control, a Hale starship is about to land." This is what it returned.
audio (2).wav
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@fribbledom Nah. You'll find them as soon as you purchase replacements. They'll be in whatever spot you decide to put the replacements. Happens to me constantly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Lying here with a Godawful flu on new years eve, realizing this will be the first year in my adult life where I won't be staying up until midnight, and having that thing. You know, the grumpy thing. Where you go "I want a good book to ! Right now! That will make me happy and not sick!" But you're grumpy and sick and cranky, so every book on your TBR pile isn't good enough and you throw them out of the pram in a tantrum. Then you go through your Goodreads recommendations for a while, sniffling snot and muttering "Does nobody write any good books anymore? I just want a good book! I must have read all the good books already. All of these books are stupid. Why do they let stupid people write stupid books." So you look through your list of comfort books for a re-read, but it turns out all of those books are also either bad or boring and you hate them, and this must, somehow, be somebody else's fault. I guess I'll just put on some stupid YouTube videos if I can get the stupid app on my stupid phone to work and probably fall asleep between coughing and shivering with a fever. All because nobody writes any good books, anymore. I'd like you all to know that this is your fault.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@clv1 Lenovo and Toshiba used to. I don’t know if they still do.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone I upgraded the motherboard and video card. You can find an accessible description of the framework here:
community.frame.work/t/framework-16-visually-impaired-owners-case-mid-plate-and-mainboard-orientation-guide/51168

And step by step instructions are here:
guides.frame.work/Guide/Mainboard/283?lang=en

Between these two things, you have enough to get the job done.

When you have to re-enter your bitlocker key, it boots into a recovery version of Windows, where you can load narrator, enter your key, and restart.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@clv1 I haven't written any review. But to quickly answer your questions:
* no critical keys are missing, at least on the North American keyboard layout, and I also have the number pad module. The only missing keys from a full keyboard are the six pack (home/end, page up/down, etc.)
* the keys are fine, though there is no gap between the function keys, and no dot on f4, f8, etc.
* However, the laptop runs hot enough that I prefer to leave it on a table and use a wireless keyboard, instead of holding the laptop on my lap
* Audio quality is fair, once you enable the NVDA or jaws feature that stops the sound system from falling asleep. It's just the standard real tech audio chip that's on pretty much all laptops these days
* Framework updates the driver bundle regularly, and the driver and bios updaters are fully accessible
* The only problems come if you allow Windows Update to install driver updates. Sometimes it installs incorrect drivers and you have to use system restore to roll back an update
* If you live with others: the fans are extremely! loud when the laptop is busy. If someone was trying to, for example, watch TV or listen to music while you were gaming on the laptop, they would get quite annoyed
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Upgrading my Framework 16 took about three hours, but was otherwise painless. Windows did need me to re-set-up my fingerprint and pin after changing the entire motherboard, and I had to re-enter my bitlocker recovery key. But that process was accessible.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@TomGrant91 @alexchapman How it is is slow lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @TomGrant91 So long as thrive is smart enough to display the plain text version of the note, it’ll be fine. Tweesecake displays the formatted version, but strips all formatting, so links don’t work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TomGrant91 It’s a bug in tweesecake. Use any other client and the url works fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
I'm gonna go with "may-me". Just so I don't have to hear about someone flirting with "mommy". I have no evidence that it's the most correct of my four options, but it's the one I like best. So meh.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I'm gonna go with "may-me". Just so I don't have to hear about someone flirting with "mommy". I have no evidence that it's the most correct of my four options, but it's the one I like best. So meh.
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