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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
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
Uh, Amazon? Your AI is drunk! Take it home and let it sleep it off!

Recommended for you in Religion & Spirituality:
* Succubus Summoner 3: A High Fantasy Romance by Virgil Knightley
* The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality by Tyler Staton

One of these books is not like the other one...
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@J3317 @alexchapman It doesn’t. It also doesn’t seem to see them all. Like I can’t get to the full app list the way I can in talk back.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@dhamlinmusic @JamminJerry It does. But I never just hit it perfectly the first time. So it's no faster than face unlock.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@mcourcel @dhamlinmusic @JamminJerry It's a pixel 9A. So new!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@dhamlinmusic @JamminJerry While I'm complaining about stuff: is there a trick to reliably find the fingerprint reader? I can't feel it at aall. My ancient six year old android phone had it on the back of the phone. But now it's on the screen and I never ever get it right the first time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@JamminJerry Oh, I figured it out. The default settings are just silly. You want global granularity navigation 2 as your gesture style and then you can swipe up to actions, and swipe left/right through the actions.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@JamminJerry How do you make it use talkback actions? From my first fifteen minutes with it, it looks good. But no actions makes it unusable with gmail.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@JamminJerry Yeah so I’m trying csr or whatever it’s called now. With it, explore by touch sometimes freezes for a few seconds but it comes back without me needing to do anything. It’s also significantly faster. So something is obviously wrong with my talk back.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@JamminJerry I could also try the beta I guess.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@JamminJerry I thought of that. But why would flick and double tap work perfectly?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@alexchapman One would hope. All there games are major bug fests. That’s why I decided to try csr first.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@alexchapman Does it have fewer bugs than ranger legend? Lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@JamminJerry Maybe i should factory reset the phone?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@alexchapman Is prudence better? It looks less feature complete?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@JamminJerry Significantly more responsive than it is for me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@alexchapman I’m looking at csr. But it looks like it doesn’t support talk back actions?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@alexchapman Tomorrow I’m going to investigate third party screen readers. There has to be a way to make this better.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@JamminJerry I wonder if it’s the sounds? iOS speaks at the same time as the sounds. Android seems like it doesn’t.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@JamminJerry I’m not sure what’s up, swipe works fine. I could even swipe my way through the keyboard if I wanted. But explore by touch just quits and stops responding.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@alexchapman I tried espeak in hopes it would make talk back less laggy. It did not.