Mendi_Tech

TheQuinbox, 8 days ago to random

My laptop's sound driver, among many others, has this absolutely infuriating behavior where it puts the sound card to sleep after a particular amount of silence (mine's seemingly after 5 seconds), causing a screen reader user to miss the beginning of speech, an audio file, a notification, or anything else they may be trying to listen to. To solve this, I wrote this little program. Simply run it, and it'll start piping silent audio through your default sound card, which has fixed it on every machine I've tried. It should also respect device changes (e.g. unplugging headphones). To close it, simply click on the tray icon. It doesn't get much simpler than that. https://quinbox.xyz/files/SleepSoundly.zip

TheQuinbox, 8 days ago to random

My dad's out of town at the moment on a business trip, and he sent me a checklist of things I need to do to help my mom with after her surgery. He sent it as an Apple Notes link. SO to access it from my Pixel, I had to:

1. Click the link and try to sign into my Apple ID.
2. Get a verification code, except I have no Apple devices around at the second and the text option had to be clicked like 5 times before it worked.
3. Verify I have... access to be invited to the note, whatever that means. SO they had to text me a link, and I had to click it.
4. After clicking it, I had to, you fucking guessed it, sign in again, including the same problem with sending a code, even though I hit trust this browser the first time.
5. Dismiss the 15 modals that popped up across the two tabs, and try to access the note. It doesn't work.
6. Close the entire browser and click the link again.
7. Finally scroll down to the notes contents, and realize that Apple really doesn't care about you, because all you can read is the first line!
   Seriously, fuck, you! It feels like this entire world is now just broken, inaccessible garbage everywhere you look.

evilcookies98, 13 days ago to random

I gotta ask. What’s everybody’s favorite of the new Microsoft voices? I personally can’t pick.

Mendi_Tech, 1 month ago to random

Just out of curiosity, what mastodon clients are people who are screen reader users using other than tweesecake on windows?

Mendi_Tech, 1 month ago to random

Wait, re that last post, does this mean I can FINALLY use my humanware displays with my android phone?

TheQuinbox, 1 month ago to random

Why does all the software for amazing hardware absolutely fucking suck? I have a Logitech MX Keys mini. It's a great keyboard, but my Bluetooth card sucks, and wireless is faster anyways. So I get a LogiBolt. Well guess how you pare it? You don't just plug it in and it works, like y'know... literally any other dongle on the face of the planet. You have to install Logitech Options! This annoyed me, and I remembered that you can unpack this installer and just get the LogiBolt configuration tool out of it as an installer. Got that, and installed it. And, surprise surprise, it's inaccessible. Button, button, button. 0 button. Button. R button. Fuck this noise. I hate this. I hate all of this. Why does it all just suck?

Mendi_Tech, 1 month ago to random

Don't laugh, I still have a braille lite at my house. In some crazy way, it would be fun to see the new school version of it when/if it is released.