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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
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@ander_dapo A lot of this problem happens because, whatever we say about capitalism, it is really good at incentivizing individuals to do things they, personally, don't care about. In an open source product, you only get accessibility if that's someone's passion, and that person has the skills to submit directly to the codebase. Microsoft and Apple pay developers to do accessibility, so they can meet their legal obligations. It doesn't matter if the iMessage guy working on accessibility cares or not. It's a requirement, so he'll do it because he's being paid to do it. In open source, things only generally happen when someone is excited about them.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@esoteric_programmer You're assuming that when I actually need my replacement base /usr, whatever mechanism that's supposed to keep it up to date with kernel and driver changes is working. I'm not even sure what that would look like. Hooking into apt somehow?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@esoteric_programmer I'm sure it's possible. But it almost certainly involves a lot of undocumented hackery, and the sound drivers probably don't work, because sound drivers on Linux never work without endless babying. Accessible disc encryption on Linux is, I suspect, not the default, and not easy to set up.
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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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@esoteric_programmer it happens in a cut-down version of Windows, where narrator is available. I don't know how it works, but I assume Microsoft has an unencrypted boot partition with some sort of recovery Windows that it boots to. You enter the key in there, then reboot. If I were running Linux, you would probably be correct and it would be inaccessible.
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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
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@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
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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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🇨🇦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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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So in today's edition of problems: reading a book with a character named Mami is deeply disconcerting, because my screen reader pronounces it "mommy". I just thought...the character was weirdly being called mom by everyone until I finally stopped to check the spelling. Screen readers of the time are also why I thought "anime" rimed with "time" until I was like 14. Uselessly, looking it up online gives me four different examples of how to pronounce Mami, all with different emphasis and "a" sounds. Including one joker who really is pronouncing it exactly like "mommy". So I dunno.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@menelion That was my first thought. But I wonder if places like this measure the performance of the support staff by number of tickets closed. So if they fix a big issue, maybe letting them close a bunch of the related tickets would give them a boost to whatever nonsense corporate performance metrics there managers force on them?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Hey guys who work in a or or provide support for hosting: if I open a support ticket about an issue, and the issue is resolved an hour later without a response to my ticket, what's the Etiquette here? Should I close the ticket as resolved without waiting for an answer? Or does that mess up your quotas or workflows or whatever? Is it impolite to close my own ticket when I notice the problem is fixed without waiting for your response? Am I taking away the satisfaction you get from closing a ticket? Or am I just making your life easier by saving you from dealing with yet one more customer.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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AI Showerthought: Suno is The Sims for music. You can have a lot of fun with Suno, and even share some cool stuff. But nobody would share a livestream of The Sims and call it a movie. In the same way, creations made by Suno are neat, but they're an entirely different genre of thing than human music. Also, some of us have fun torturing our creations in both Suno and The Sims. Because Suno is incapable of saying "No, a modern pop version of that would not work and should not exist". As someone entirely nonmusical, it really does feel like having a musician trapped in my basement that I can torture with all of my impossible bad ideas.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@luiscarlosgonzalez @Tamasg @mush42 @ZBennoui Maybe. But I don't know if they include any of the audio parts required along with onnx.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@vartak @Joshsharp Or you're using a subdomain. Or one of the free tlds. Spammers and phishers have no problem getting domains, so it's pretty meaningless.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@luiscarlosgonzalez @mush42 @Tamasg @ZBennoui It already does for image description. But I don’t know how to get at it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@luiscarlosgonzalez @mush42 @Tamasg @ZBennoui Exactly that has already happened, and I was forced to pay money to strip Camlorn’s custom 3d audio library out of unspoken. Because he’s not maintaining that anymore, and he’s the only one in our community with that particular set of skills. If we as blind people want to write software for ourselves that will last, we have to stop depending on custom low level frameworks and make the things that already exist work for us.