simon

@simon@dragonscave.space

Accessibility tester, bookworm, occasional musician and audio producer, coffee addict, selfhoster, tech tinkerer.

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simon, to random

Several Months Ago
Me: You should take another line on my plan. you'll have lots of data and it'll cost you less, and you can get a new phone.
Mother: I don't want that. I like Koodo. They have great support. And I don't care about data.
(Note: She had 1 GB + unlimited calling for $35.)
Fast Forward to Today
Mother: I changed my mind, I'm going on a long trip and suddenly I care about data.
Me: Ok, join my plan.
Mother: No, I like Koodo. I have more loyalty to this company than any cell phone company in Canada will ever have to me.
Me: Fine, go get a better plan. You're way overpaying in 2024.
Mother: I don't want to use the internet, let's call them.
Koodo: We don't take calls anymore, but you can text with our AI and it might see fit to allow you to schedule a callback.
Real person from Koodo: You should log into the online portal for our best plans, I can't give the same promotions.
Me: 💭How do you like your support now?💭
After she reluctantly logged in, we finally got her set up on another $35 plan with 30 GB data. It's still overpriced, but now everyone's happy, I guess.

simon,

@dhamlinmusic If you try hard enough you can get that kind of pricing here, but you really have to dig for it. Canada has some good things, like no carrier locks and relatively transparent phone financing, but also no consistency to plan prices. The best way to have a cheap phone is to constantly switch carriers.

simon,

@Meepercat If you can believe this, she actually listens better than she used to. Usually when I say things, she actually does what I say now. She's just been stubborn about this phone provider thing. Maybe the support experience will make her less so, though. Also, I didn't know that program died. I think what you need to find out is whether Xfinity has the same data priority as AT&T's main plans. Otherwise, much like Visible vs. Verizon, you will have way worse performance in congested / low-signal areas. But I don't know much about Xfinity mobile (I only use AT&T here because they have free roaming with no restrictions) so that's up to you. That was a great program that almost no-one I know seemed to be using for some reason.

Meepercat, to random
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I wonder if I should show my brother my little tiny computer that is NOT a kitten toy. Giggles.

simon,

@FluidEscence @Meepercat @sclower also you don't even need to do that? Just install Windows from within Windows, choose to keep nothing.

simon,

@FluidEscence @Meepercat @sclower Yeah. To be honest I think the normal reset option with the cloud download thing checked would also work. That should reinstall Windows from an official microsoft image. But making a Windows drive, reinstalling, and nuking Windows.old will also work.

simon, to random

I just realized that the iPhone SE battery is smaller than the Jelly Star battery. Not by much, but it is. The Jelly Star battery is half the size of almost every Android phone battery, even the cheapest Samsung phones from several years ago. So when I say Apple could have tried a little harder, I can back that up with actual examples. Hopefully the next SE has a much larger battery, or Magsafe, or both. I hesitate to recommend them to anyone at this point because you basically can't function without a power bank. Meanwhile, the Jelly Star is turning out to be an amazing media device, especially now that I figured out how to make Foobar2000 for Android more accessible.

simon,

@crazydutchy Makes sense. I only had the 2020 SE, and found its battery completely intolerable, but it depends how you use it. I also held onto the touch ID / home button design until 2022.

simon,

@bmoore123 Smart Audiobook Player seems to be a good one.

simon,

@jpellis2008 I use @Voice Aloud Reader. I have to tweak some hidden settings to adjust Eloquence speed to where I want it, and change some settings related to appearance, but it's pretty easy. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionics.avar&hl=en_CA&gl=US

simon, to random

For all the nice things I say about OneDrive, i'm frustrated with them today. Someone shared a folder with me, and I can no longer make the "Add Shortcut to my Drive" option appear reliably for me. This was the way to accept a folder invitation previously, and it worked reliably as of last month. Now, when I do locate the option, it just adds a web shortcut (.url) to my drive. The previous shortcut was more like a symlink, allowing me to access the files through Explorer. Now I just get a file that opens my browser to the folder. These are obviously not the same thing at all. Maybe this is what happens when someone only gives me read access to the folder? Either way, this is not intuitive and as much as Dropbox sucks in most other ways, they got this part right.
Although whenever I do figure this out, at least the folder won't be taking up space in two people's drives.

simon,

@baethyn That's really interesting because that definitely isn't what I experienced. I was sharing a 700 GB folder with someone else, and it was taking up space in both of our dropboxes, which was causing most of the family storage to be eaten up with that one folder.

simon, to random

@Moopypoo Hey, do you use NPlayer on your Jelly Star? I seem to remember that being the case. I've seen it work properly on other phones, but on my Jelly Star, it's not showing files within folders. Once I'm in a folder with audio files, I just get an empty list view. Wondered if you also ran into this. I'm using Foobar2000 for now, which works well if you change a couple of settings, but NPlayer does have more cloud support.

simon,

@Moopypoo Gever heard of that, but will check it out. Maybe NPlayer is just bugged. I'll write to them at some point.

evilcookies98, to random
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Too bad there’s no sweet spot in the TeamTalk universe between the all powerful admin and the regular human. It would be nice to have a couple of people on hand who can’t blow up the server, but can still kick out the troublemakers.

simon,

@evilcookies98 There totally is. You can give people permission to kick users, ban users, and manage all channels, but not update server properties. You can even make people an automatic channel operator on the main channels without giving them permission across the entire server. It's pretty extensive.

Rachelk, to random
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So, can I have a show of hands, who still plays here? I've heard of it for sometime, but only started playing it yesterday to get myself into the world of MUDS to see if I really like that style of game. Seems I do. Any other MUDs people want to recommend, with as less combat as possible, do reply here. I can't wait till I can start playing ClokMud sounds really awesome

simon,

@Rachelk I play Erion. It's technically possible to play the game without combat at all, but even when you do fight something, you can use autoskill to automatically cast a certain spell every few seconds. The world is big, but not overwhelmingly so; there's a command to run to a specific area; there's lots of crafting and missions, and there are 11 classes, with each character having 2 classes that can level together. It's easier than Alter Aeon, but that's part of why I like it. AA gets very grindy and tedious at some point.

musicalman, to random

So, this might be a longshot, but I'm kind of wondering if anyone even remotely knows what I'm talking about, or can give me some pointers.

When I was a kid, I got a cassette tape, I believe for Christmas, of Bugs Bunny hosting some sort of trivia show, with Daphie, Sylvester, Yosemity Sam, Tweedy and others as contestants. He would ask them trivia questions and they would give him often funny wrong answers. Over time, though, Bugs would elliminate the contestants for various reasons. I don't remember why, though. The only one I do remember is Sylvester trying to eat Tweedy. At the very end, someone overthrew Bugs and forced him to be a contestant on their new show or something. I think some of it was loosely based on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, but I'm not sure. It's been over 20 years since I heard this tape, and I only remember very specific moments from it. But I would instantly recognize it. There's a small chance I still have it, and maybe I'll digitize it although the quality might be pretty bad.

Anyhow, I'd love to know what this tape actually is called so I could look it up and see if there's a digital version I could get. Does anyone have any clue of a possible name or other lead I could search?

simon,

@musicalman This is an excellent query for https://old.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue

FluidEscence, to random

wait. TWBlue added support for what? Loading remote local and federated timelines from other instances? Oh shit.

simon,

@FluidEscence Yes. Yes they did. Don't make me switch to that thing. :(

quanin, to random

Hey, Uber Eats? I love the idea of what you're trying to sell me on. But see, here's the thing... after being in Chicago and having Chicago style pizza, I promise you the place I will never order it from (no, not even if you pay me) is Little Caesars. Not even if you offer me a second one for free. We have much better local places here... do better.

simon,

@quanin I actually like them, particularly their deep dish. Am I just missing out on the really good stuff? There are other places here.

simon, to random

If you use a screen reader and you perform a special button dance in the Fakespot analyzer page, while waiting for results to load, you might notice the following text:

"If you are seeing this, stop messing around with the console".

I do love when someone tries to be a smartass and it fails utterly.

alyssa6595, to random

Southwest just emailed me to ask if I booked my rental car for my Denver trip. They're a little off the mark on that one I'm afraid

simon,

@alyssa6595 This would be especially funny/silly if you specified accommodations while you were booking. I think Expedia has done this to me.

ElementalEcho, to random

All right now I am looking for headset recommendations Needs to be reasonably comfortable so I can lay down with it, sound decently, and have a good microphone. Looking for something wireless, and bonus points if it can also bluetooth to another device.

simon,

@munchkinbear @bryansmart @ElementalEcho I think OpenRun are the PoenComms without the extendable microphone. I have never seen both to compare. I also have the OpenComms.

jscholes, to random
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Writing this on the Clicks keyboard case for iPhone. Not sure what I think of it yet... its certainly gonna take some getting used to.

simon,

@jscholes I gave this a pass when I found out it was a portrait keyboard. That already sounds too cramped to be of real use. There's a new Rii Mini available, plus I feel pretty efficient using Braille screen input and could probably get back to being good at direct touch typing. I can't imagine holding the phone by one end is comfortable either, unless you get particularly good at thumb typing, which I'm not. And that's leaving aside all the issues you've found with it. no arrow keys is absurd; sighted people use those too.

nick, to random
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"Always on top" is evil and should never have a keyboard shortcut.

simon,

@nick You haven't lived until you've spent multiple weeks trying to figure out why your web documents keep going blank in NVDA, only to find you've accidentally made notepad2 always on top and it inexplicably causes literally everything to break in unexplainable ways.

simon,

@nick Oh, it kinda sounds like you had that exact problem. My alt+A is "stop after current"; I find this much more useful. Does Foobar have default assignments now? I just had to assign them all.

simon,

@nick Yep. Can't remember how I figured out the problem, it might have been trial and error or might have been @tspivey. Either way I was seriously contemplating reinstalling Windows. The problem would disappear randomly after closing other applications too, so it was really hard to track back to Notepad.

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