Mendi_Tech

@Mendi_Tech@dragonscave.space

Totally blind assistive tech specialist out here to connect with like minded individuals and up for general conversation sometimes as well.

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evilcookies98, to random
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Downside to being a Munchkin, when your shoe holder decides to try to fall off your closet door, you aren’t tall enough to hang it back up

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Get a folding stool my friend. They're cheap and fold thin enough to store almost anywhere, and I get another foot or so of height out of mine.

evilcookies98, to random
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Here’s some logic for you. Been using NVDA for 10 years, come up nine points short on the certification test. Using jaws in 40 minute mode for a couple of months, pass the test with an 85% on the first try. I took it of my own volition just to see how I would do.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Yeah, that NVDA test is something else.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 No, you're not.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 The other test that is brain breaking is the zoomtext exam. What I do like though is, if you do fail it, they tell you what areas you are weak in, and you can brush up on those specifically. That goes for the JAWS test too.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Me either, but as an AT trainer, I had to at least understand and/or learn the basics.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 That's pretty much what I had to do.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 I think my first go round it took me three times to pass it. Somehow, the last time I tried it, I had remembered enough to pass it first time taken. I was shocked when I pressed the submit button and got above 80%.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 i'll retake the test in October to keep my certification current.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 I try to do it once a year. And no, I don't think you have to get relisted, but I take it so my signature block is current, which I have to pay for, but it's good for business purposes for me.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Meanwhile, for a job I'm potentially looking at, they actually asked if I was certified. Thankfully, I could say yes.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Haha, I know what you mean.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Amen to that!

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Haha, probably not.

evilcookies98, to random
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Text to speech trick of the day, if you miss the Heather voice from acapella on your android device, go by the Nelly voice and then turn the pitch all the way down. Tell me what you get.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 I didn't find a Nelly. Closest I found was Ellen.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Acapella speech manager on my pixel phone.

evilcookies98, to random
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Anybody wanna come over and help me change my phone number on all the crap it’s tied to?

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Ugh, I do not envy you with that task. It's about as bad as changing credit cards when they get frauded.

evilcookies98, to random
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For anyone who gives a quarter of crap, I have a burger and onion rings.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Haha, i had a bison burger, macaroni salad, and baked beans.

evilcookies98, to random
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I don’t know why this just popped into my head. OK, so Apple removed the physical Sim cards from their new phones. That kind of destroys the dual Sim functionality they bragged about.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Actually, it doesn't. You can have two ESims at the same time.

evilcookies98, to random
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Well, I may have to get a new cell phone number. Thanks to the far right being in the billionaires pockets they’ve cut off the affordable connectivity program and I’m about to lose service. I can’t transfer my number without having an account number and a transfer pin, and I wouldn’t know where to get that if my life depended on it. I’m switching to visible. It cost a little bit more than I’ve been paying, but the service is much better.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 I think your company will give that to you when you initiate the transfer. I had that madness when setting up a new line from my land line phone number.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 Oh wow. That's not good.

TheQuinbox, 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

Mendi_Tech,

@TheQuinbox Ugh, favoriting this, because I have this exact issue. JAWS fixes it, but NVDA does not, and it's annoying AF!

Mendi_Tech,

@TheQuinbox If there is a fix, I haven't seen it yet.

Mendi_Tech,

@TheQuinbox There was an add-on, but it seems to have disappeared.

TheQuinbox, 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.
Mendi_Tech,

@TheQuinbox And this is why if I know someone has a google device I would use google docs or keep, which is, wait for it... readily available on apple products. Wow!

evilcookies98, to random
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I gotta ask. What’s everybody’s favorite of the new Microsoft voices? I personally can’t pick.

Mendi_Tech,

@evilcookies98 I'm using the Guy one right now, but Serena isn't bad either, or I think that's her name.

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