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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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@TheQuinbox Sorry, just walked out my door. Didn’t expect an instant response lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TheQuinbox Uh, the new version identifies itself as 0.6 under about. And the update checker prompts to update on launch. Same for the dev build. :-)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@matt @alpuzz So on Windows 11, Edge WebView is always loaded into ram, because a bunch of parts of the OS depend on it. So you get an entire free browser.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@mcourcel @alexchapman @quanin Sure! www.marmaladefoo.com/pages/geminaut
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@matt @alpuzz But what does compact mean today? You can write a z-machine interpreter in pure JavaScript. It's tiny! But only because you're using the browser for accessibility and the user interface and everything else.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @quanin You can solve it with modern OCR or AI.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@alexchapman @quanin The most accessible client is MicroPlanet gravity: github.com/taviso/mpgravity
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@alexchapman @quanin Nope. There are free text-only usenet servers available. The main one is eternal-september.org.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@PuercoPop Thanks! Not quite what I'm looking for, but looks neat!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
question: Has anyone written a Bridge between , , , , or other fediverse software and ? I have access, and would be happy to bridge some of the various blindness groups on Usenet onto the fediverse.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @matt I think other things support it. Just not accessibly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Some beta feedback: it should say translated before the post text with . That way we can set expectations appropriately before hearing the text and thinking it’s poorly written.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @menelion I use edge. Am I going to mastodon jail?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@matt On windows adobe is still the only thing that supports fillable forms. So seeing as I’m forced to keep it installed for that I just use it for everything.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Some drama for those of you who enjoy that sort of thing: www.reddit.com/r/Blind/s/6ZicOIjkg2
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone 1, I never noticed that. 2, it’s simpler, more like conjury than Dawncaster. 3, I dont remember, sorry! Haven’t touched that one in a while.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone The core game is complete. Documentation is lacking though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @svenja @quanin Yes. 8 gb of video memory will do.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @mcourcel Okay, here's a list of the games I have:
* Alcyone: The Last City: fully playable, but only with annoying SAPI text to speech
* Alt-Frequencies: fully playable
* Arcade Spirits: fully playable, outputs text to the clipboard, so you need autoclip
* Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers: same
* As Dusk Falls: fully playable
* Balatro: you need a mod but installation is easy
* BROK the InvestiGator: fully playable
* Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant: fully playable
* Conjury: fully playable
* cyberpunkdreams: fully playable
* Dark Passenger: fully playable
* Diablo: mostly playable
* Doki Doki Literature Club: you need a mod and installing it is irritating
* Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!: this is a remastered version of the above game and the mod is much easier to install and better in every way
* Escape from Norwood: fully playable
* Factorio: fully playable with mods
* Firebird: fully playable
* Forza Motorsport: fully playable
* Hearthstone: fully playable with mods
* Heroes Rise: The Prodigy: fully playable
* Kilta: fully playable
* The Last of Us™ Part I: fully playable
* The Last of Us™ Part II: fully playable
* Lost and Hound: fully playable
* Luck be a Landlord: fully playable
* Magic Research: fully playable
* Magic Research 2: fully playable
* Microsoft Flight Simulator: only playable if you devote your entire life to it and pay a monthly subscription for the mod and make the correct pagan sacrifices
* Night of the Full Moon: fully playable
* Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain: fully playable
* Periphery Synthetic: fully playable
* Pizza Game: fully playable
* Sanctuary in Time: fully playable
* The Secret of Darkwoods: fully playable
* SEQUENCE STORM: fully playable
* Shining Song Starnova: fully playable with autoclip
* Skullgirls: fully playable if you own a controller
* Slay the Spire: fully playable with a mod called say the spire
* Smugglers 5: Invasion: playable if you like using object navigation and OCR
* soundStrider: fully playable
* Stardew Valley: playable with mods
* Thaumistry: In Charm's Way: fully playable
* Trawel: fully playable
* Warsim: The Realm of Aslona: fully playable
* World Empire 2027: fully playable

I would recommend sequence storm as your first place to start. Good fun, finishable in a few days, requires no modding. Then maybe move on to Slay The Spire and Balatro to get used to modding stuff and how that feels. Both excellent games that take months to master. There are many more mainstream accessible games, these are just the ones I've personally played.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@quanin @mcourcel You can also find other completely blind folks on steam, and follow them. Someone's steam profile shows every game they've played, how long they've played it, and the achievements they have (if the game supports achievements). However, some games may have accessibility mods, so once you find a blind person who plays something, you then need to do a quick internet search for game+accessible mod or whatever.