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Rich W. Beardsley
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mastodon 4.7.2+glitchGreetings fellow humans and other living things. As you probably guessed, my name is Rich. I'm just a random person on the net who enjoys hanging out with family and friends, music, books, movies, and good conversation. If you want to know more, feel free to reach out.
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So like people on audiogames.net love to do, you have quite a few now complaining about the new changes. I find it interesting how a lot of these people sit there and say "make us like mainstream communities. We need to act like others so we can encourage devs to come here and feel welcome", but when something like limiting if not banning political discussions like they just did happens, certain individuals have to get butthurt because they can't discuss the politics of a country they're not in and therefore are not affected by.
The NVDA Volume Adjustment add-on is very good for you.
Not sure how, but iMessage fixed itself overnight. I'm not complaining.
Apparently technology really hates me today. iOS 26.4.1 made notification volume go as low as it can with my AirPods, and now my iMessage won't activate and I have to wait 24 hours or more for Apple to get back to me since I've tried everything they recommend on the website. It deactivated itself earlier, but I was able to get it back and it worked fine.
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@mikedoise Easier said than done for a lot of people, especially in the blind community and likely other disability communities. As nice as it may be for some, living on a fixed income puts it out of reach. Even if someone is on say an XS or 11, their only upgrade choice could be a 13 or 14.
Re last, Thank you. If you add alt text, thank you. If you don't you don't. There are bigger more important things in life to worry about.
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@sapphireangel So an official page giving instructions for IT admins to disable add-ons and the dev console doesn't count? We still have to spend hundreds of dollars a year for a speech synthesizer because open source is so evil and dangerous? Never mind the fact that the internet as we know it today would not exist were it not for open source. All those websites your visiting? Any online games you play? Most if not all of the servers powering everything we use runs Linux which is open source. https://www.nvaccess.org/corporate-government/
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@GamingWithEars @sapphireangel To be clear, open source is not 100% safe. But, having multiple people and groups who are able to sit down and sey "hey, fix X Y and Z" means that it's "less likely" for malicious actors to do things. Now if you're getting your downloads from shady sources, I can understand exactly why people could say open source is bad. The way to fix that is download from the dev's official website, and any modified versions or add-ons if such a thing exists for the app in question come from trusted sources.
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@PepperTheVixen AccessibleGram might be what you're looking for. It's in beta and still has some bugs, but not bad for what it is either. https://testflight.apple.com/join/cQwVCGxe
Without getting too personal, what are some of the most annoying things sighted family members say? For me, the biggest one is "I can see" or "they can see" when they find out I had the nerve to travel an hour or more from home.
Whoever this Chris guy is that drives Uber and Lyft here in my area must remember me. I had him some time back in January, and he turned out to be one of those "you have to notify us of the dog" people. Any time since that day when I've been matched with a Chris either on Uber or Lyft and let them know I will not see them, I'm matched to another driver. Was thinking he'd come get me since he didn't insta cancel, but sure enough he did eventually and it matched me with someone else. And if anyone wonders how I know it's the same guy, I made sure to remember the vehicle. First on Lyft, then on Uber. Same vehicle on both, so yeah.
@flamulous@social.the-gdn.net While anything is technically possible it wouldn't surprise me if it's intentional. Nothing companies do these days should shock or surprise anyone.
Signed up for the LG Web OS beta today. Make sure you either have Be My Eyes or Aira because Audio Guidance doesn't work with the beta program app. Here's to hoping installing the beta itself works if I'm approved, but so far not impressed.
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@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Those are every blind person's favorite ways to receive instructions. Said no one.
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@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Guess I'm not the only one with issues. Renova Music has struggled to play certain things.
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@stevo399@dragonscave.space I don't expect 100% fluency at first since I do get that the language is hard to learn, but if you're hoping to do something that puts you around others, at least know enough to have a simple conversation and handle an emergency.
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@stevo399@dragonscave.space Usually if you put couldn't accommodate me as your reason for canceling with Lyft you may not get billed the cancel fee. At least that was my experience as of last year anyway.
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