When ordering products on the Blazie Technologies Web site, you now have the option to use PayPal to pay for your purchase. Using PayPal has several benefits, including the ability to complete your purchase with installment plans. Here are some examples of some plans which may be available to you through PayPal.
• Pay in 4: Pay in 4 interest-free payments, subject to pre-approval from PayPal
• Pay Monthly: Pay Monthly is subject to consumer credit approval. Payments may change based on shipping, taxes, updates to your purchase, or missed payments.
Please note: these payment plans are offered, determined and controlled by PayPal and not by Blazie Technologies. You may need to be pre-approved and/or undergo a credit check in order to qualify for these payment plans. Please see the PayPal Web site for full terms and conditions for these payment plan options. Any questions or issues regarding these payment plan options should be directed to PayPal and not to Blazie Technologies. Also, PayPal purchases must be done online and cannot be handled by phone.
We are happy to be able to offer PayPal as an additional payment option when purchasing products and accessories from the Blazie Technologies Web site. We hope this will make it even easier to order a BT Speak and other products from us. www.blazietech.com#BTSpeak
DG
Just spent today at work with Linux. Fedora's Mate spin still works well generally, and Orca is much more stable. And, according to Orca, the system never even ran over about 3 of the 16 GB of RAM on that Intel NUC. I set up Emacs and Emacspeak, Firefox, Bitwarden, VS Code, and never even took my laptop out of the bag. Of course, I really miss a lot of NVDA addons, like the OpenAI one, sounds for entering browse and focus modes, and the Thunderbird addon most of all. But I was able to log into, and use, Salesforce and Google Sheets. So now when I get a good workflow with Markdown and such, I think I'll just about, maybe, be able to start using it more. Packages are all up-to-date, Orca will alwasy be current, and hopefully I can one day move to a desktop environment with a proper notification center! Oh, and I'll have to see if Pidgin still takes up more RAM the more I use it.
Note that I still wouldn't expect a regular computer user to get into Linux, as far as setting it up. But, honestly, having the #BTSpeak out on the market makes me hope that more power users and programmers will hammer Linux into more of a shape that blind people can be at home with.
This is a great overview of the #BTSpeak
The Tech Doctor Blog and Podcast: BTSpeak Offers the Simplicity of a Braille ’n Speak and Adds the Power of a Modern Computer https://www.dr-carter.com/?p=569
DG
For a different audience who may not have seen this.
Watching discussions surrounding the BTSpeak here on Mastodon and on the main BTSpeak support list, I agree that there needs to be a discussion list for advanced users for various reasons. Surprisingly for me, I've created such a list. This is not an official list sponsored by Blazie Technologies. Take all warnings to hart. But join and have fun.
Watching discussions surrounding the BTSpeak here on Mastodon and on the main BTSpeak support list, I agree that there needs to be a discussion list for advanced users for various reasons. Surprisingly for me, I've created such a list. This is not an official list sponsored by Blazie Engineering. Take all warnings to hart. But join and have fun.