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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
8mo
@JamminJerry My biggest struggle right now is that explore by touch just completely stops working every 30 minutes or so. I have to lock the phone and unlock it again to make it start working. It’s infuriating. I can’t even type when it happens because only flick works. That and talk back is just! So! Slow! 1.5 seconds to scroll a list. Lag when typing. Etc. I thought Google tts was the issue, so I switched to espeak. No change. Voiceover is faster on my iPhone 8. What can I do to make talk back actually responsive? Because this is killing me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@tardis @dhamlinmusic I got the Pixel 9A
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
Android Day One: How do I go home?
The phone arrives, and I unbox and turn it on.
stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/24/android1.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
Has anyone who is or using a had any experience with the VR-n76 handheld? Is the app with ? Can you use most functions through the app (IE, it would be possible to use the radio without seeing its screen)? I'm thinking about one for a summer trip, if only I knew I could use it. www.verotelecom.com/VR-N76-Dual-Band-Handheld-Radio-p2511333.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
In theory, the Pixel 9A is out for delivery today. But after my previous experience with Google I now believe in nothing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@adrinux I suspect a lot more of it is just “We’re google and we can do whatever the hell we want. Screw you.”
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@jscholes As much of a joke as you want it to be... LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
Day Zero On My Android Journey: Wherein I talk about what I tried to buy, and why I don't have it yet. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/22/android0.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@adam Yes, the OP was confused. But a later comment mentions vlan 37. Also this comment, though also old: www.reddit.com/r/bell/comments/q607a2/comment/hg9btdl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

That I only found because I started looking into it today.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@adam What I suspect is that they're doing this vlan nonsense because they eventually intend to charge extra for IPV4, or sell cheap V6 only access for EOT devices. Or maybe use carrier grade NAT on V4 for cheap connections, and charge extra for a real V4 address. Something like that. Because we all know Bell doesn't do anything unless it can make them a buck.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@adam And some more on vlan tagging at bell: www.reddit.com/r/bell/comments/gtiuhb/comment/fzr3wh9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

And LOL that you didn't even notice. So many thousands of customers were effected it even made CBC today: www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-canada-service-outage-1.7539810
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@adam So the thing that got me investigating was the outage this morning. Were you effected at all? I was not, but my neighbors and several workmates were. The one commonality seemed to be that they were using gigahubs, and everyone I know who was unaffected were using PPPOE passthrough or another bypass for the bell modem. Bell later released a statement that the outage was caused by a router update. Also, we already know they use multi-vlan in production. TV is vlan 36. That's probably why your firmware supports a services vlan; without it, Bell TV wouldn't work. Documentation of that: www.reddit.com/r/bell/comments/l96qne/bell_fibe_internet_tv_and_phone_with_pfsense/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@adam My TP-Link router will. I'll try and test this over the weekend.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@adam it was a reddit thread. Let me track it down. 37 is IPv6 only apparently,. And then 35 remains v4.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
Hey @adam I'm hearing reports that Bell Fibe now issues IPV6 addresses via PPPOE over VLAN 37. I'm not set up to easily test this. Have you heard these rumblings? Can you test it? So that would make it vlan 35 for IPV4, vlan 36 for TV, and vlan 37 for IPV6 I guess.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@tynstar It was 45 minutes after midnight, and I'd been up since 6 AM. I also have powershell and oh-my-posh installed on all of my machines, so that doesn't help me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
Pressing control+c on the wrong keyboard, in the wrong terminal window, connected to the wrong server: the ultimate sign it's time for bed. Just as soon as I do a bit of troubleshooting; I seem to have broken "sudo shutdown -h now" on this Debian machine. It says:
"sudo: The term 'sudo' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again."

I wonder how I managed to break sudo?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@simon @JamminJerry Can the Jelly Max get a hacked/third party rom to get updates that way, I wonder?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@simon @JamminJerry The pixels are bloody expensive for a test device, though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
Me trying to explain a book I read to an offline friend: "Okay so, it's about, like, a robot vacuum who gets summoned by priests into a fantasy video game world with stats and skills." All The Dust That Falls probably shouldn't be someone's first introduction to hearing about litrpg LOL