Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
I can actually see why trust in masks is starting to go down, since the recommendation is that we now wear two of them because, oopsy, turns out one wasn't doing anything. At least that's how it seems to have been presented. I don't think
Re: do i need to be scared about my google account
I mean, it depends on what sort of 2FA we're talking about. SMS verification is better than nothing, but if you want to go all in, a physical security key or, at the very least, an authenticator app is the best way to go. Having said that,
Re: what are your opinions about guide dogs?
I'm not a dog person, so it would never happen for me. There's nothing wrong with it though if you're willing to bond with the dog while also keeping that balance between you and your off-duty pup, versus you and your working service animal. I,
Re: What Hand Do You Read Braille With?
I read with both hands. My left hand starts, my right hand trailing behind by a few spaces or so, then when I get to the end of the line, my left hand drops down to the next and continues until the right catches up, and so on.Yeah, Braille is never
Re: views about 2020
This year really was fucking awful. I don't see things improving anywhere in the near future, either. Factt is, even if the vaccines are distributed in a timely manner, and even if they turn out to not have devastating side effects once they're introduced to a larger
Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen?
Re: wearing sunglasses, the only times I've done that while indoors were on a few recent occasions at my job where I'm encountering a lot of bright light, which I'm quite sensitive to. I did so reluctantly, and, in fact, it took me years
Re: I have the SE2020 and would like to talk about it.
Right, I don't want face ID either, so the SE 2020 has worked well for me. As for the speakers, frankly, I don't expect any phone's speakers to be good. Any sound which comes from a handheld device isn't going to be very good. I can,
Re: Still don't want to wear masks?
Thank you for getting it @30. I'll piggyback on your post a bit and add that, at this point, the phrase "we're all in this together" makes me want to fucking scream. Not only because it reminds me of that awful little ditty from High School Musical, but
Re: Still don't want to wear masks?
Right, because murder and car accidents are never shown on the news. The media never used those things pre-pandemic to boost their ratings. Even now, it's not 24-7 covid coverage. People were told to be mindful of how much media, social and otherwise,
Re: Still don't want to wear masks?
Right, because murder and car accidents are never shown on the news. The media never used those things pre-pandemic to boost their ratings. Even now, it's not 24-7 covid coverage. People were told to be mindful of how much media, social and otherwise,
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Not justifying it, either, since I call it covid, and that's two syllables as opposed to the 3 or 4 it takes to say China virus or China plague. I'm joking about that, I honestly think covid is a fine term, but if I really stretch, and play
Re: Sad to read this
Oh, I thought you were going to talk about the incident where the police shot a man who was wielding a knife and charging at them, and, predictably, there were violent protests. Less than a block away from where I work, mind you, and I had to walk very near to the
Re: Sad to read this
@124, I'm glad you took something positive from your experience, but I have to say I found myself strongly reacting to your post with a resounding hell no!When I was in eighth grade, my English teacher attempted a similar experiment. Keep in mind that the school I
Re: What Gaming Headsets are people Using?
I don't know, I've owned a couple of headsets which sounded great out of the box. Either that, or I got pickier over the years lol. The Microsoft Life Chat, of all things, really impressed me when I had it. I also had a Rosewill one which, once
Re: Your favorite Harry Potter spells?
Legilimens is the one you're looking for, I think. Definitely creepy.Would apparating count as a spell? I would sure love to do that. If not, my favorite spells would be expecto patronum and accio, for the reasons mentioned above. The patronus is
Re: Luna RSS version 3.5 is now available
I can confirm that, even when pressing the exit button, there are two processes for LunaRSS.exe which need to be manually killed in Task Manager. I'm very happy to report that downloading of entire archives is working as expected though, this was a
Re: What Gaming Headsets are people Using?
I would not recommend the HyperX Cloud. I just purchased one a few days ago, and will be returning it. The virtual surround is pretty awful, and without that enabled, things sound kind of flat and blah, and it certainly doesn't have enough bass
Re: How do you like anticapca.com?
Huh, I'd never heard of this one. I tend to think of automated captcha solving services as fly-by-night operations which either go under because of lack of funding or malicious intent by the owners, but if this really has been around since 2007, that's
Re: How can I use nord vpn on windows?
I just use Open VPN. The only annoying thing is that when you generate a configuration file on Nord's website, there are like 8 billion servers to choose from, and it takes forever to find the configuration files you want, particularly if you want
Re: What are the youtube channels you watch regularlly?
I definitely prefer Harry Potter Theory over Harry Potter Folklore. The content they present is equally solid, but my God, the Folklore dude's voice is grating.
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Re: Your favorite podcasts?
I'm going to revive this topic, simply because I've been listening to a lot of podcasts while at work lately. My basic lineup hasn't changed, I'm still very into Disgraceland, the Hardcore Self Help Podcast, and The Box of Oddities, but my podcast listening had
Re: Playing Bandcamp with NVDA and Firefox.
It doesn't work in Brave either.
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Re: depressed from blindness again
I've had a few experiences with therapists in my lifetime which ran the gambit from absolutely horrible to meh to really great and empathetic. I saw most of those in school, though none of them were school counselors, they were actual psychologists. One
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Jayde, I haven't been actively reading the forum for a few days, but I'll respond to your post about voting now, though the discussion has wandered pretty far from that. Partially, I want to explain my thoughts, and partially, I want to do
Re: Monthly Chat - August, 2020
@11, nah, I know of at least one blind person who had it.Generally, things are going ok for me. My job, while not particularly mentally engaging, keeps me away from doing a lot of leisure things because I'm often tired when I return home. It's not even the
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
Lol, preach from the book of the NFB? And people wonder why I despise them. No organization should have such a tight grip on your thoughts and emotions that you feel compelled to apply force to convert others to your way of thinking. You talk
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
The electoral college and its power is the reason I flat out refuse to vote. people give me shit about it sometimes, but I'm not going to check a box when it doesn't matter what my opinion is.Re: worrying about a significant other becoming
Re: Accessible free online college websites for the blind
You and everybody else can't afford a mountain of student loans...I don't think there is such a thing as a full online college degree for free, why would there be? But you could try apps like Coursera and EdX if you just want some
Re: Is this really what sighted people think of us?
Wow @20, I hope you weren't serious about that bit of advice at the end of your post. Also, I don't know if it's the city I'm currently working in, or the fact I've managed to encounter people who are less grabby, for lack of a better
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
I, too, have leber's, and that's why I'm not really hell bent on wishing for a cure. I definitely think that if the new gene therapies ever get to a point where they're effective, that's wonderful for future generations. In my case, I have
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
I'm with others who say that if the procedure was safe and effective, I'd be willing to try it. But I'm also wary, because I don't know what it would be like to open my eyes after a surgical procedure and suddenly be confronted by all this
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
I think I'll look into those cotton masks, it makes sense that they would be more breathable and probably a bit more comfortable. I, too, wear ones that are a heavier material, and they can get rather annoying at times.I agree with the
Re: Poll, which is better?
It amuses me that someone actually voted for Cortana. Whether it's a true vote or just put there to be funny, I don't know, but Google, as usual, is coming out on top, which is a good thing.
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Re: help with capture solving with NVDA
Yeah, captcha solvers tend to disappear within a short time, I don't trust them anymore.
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Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
I couldn't agree more with the last post. It sucks we've gotten to the point where we have to, at least on some level, tell people what to do with their bodies, but guess what, it should have been fucking common sense to wear a mask in
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Honestly, after what I went through a few months back, not wearing a mask in public would feel like a giant fuck you to the person in my life who thankfully recovered, but was pretty sick there for awhile. I'll clarify that I wear my mask
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Honestly, after what I went through a few months back, not wearing a mask in public would feel like a giant fuck you to the person in my life who thankfully recovered, but was pretty sick there for awhile. I'll clarify that I wear my mask
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Right, so this topic blew up.First of all, it's not that much more difficult to smell with a mask on. I wear one for 8 hours a day, five days a week, at work, minus the time that I take a lunch break, so let's say 7 hours and 40 minutes.
Re: I'm done.
At one point, during the discussion of whether Crazy Party should be banned from this forum, I sincerely thought about asking for my account to be deleted. I didn't agree with the stance the mods were taking about it, not because the game doesn't contain copyrighted assets,
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
yeah well, sadly, that's why Trump will get reelected. I've pretty much resigned myself to that fact, though I hate it with every ounce of my being.
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Re: Where to go next with my music collection
There are lots of good suggestions here, which give me some things to think about. I have a Clip Plus that is, thankfully, still working fairly well, though the battery isn't as good as it once was and the headphone jack can occasionally be
Re: Vote about Microsoft's seeing AI on android
I wonder if they don't take the vote seriously because they left that gaping loophole wide open where you could literally create thousands of fake accounts if you were so inclined. That's totally their fault, but it also seems like the sort
Re: password managers
I didn't know about Strongbox, I'll have to look into that. KeePass Touch has suited me pretty well on my phone, but Strongbox seems to have some nice features.
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Re: Sudden, temporary unexplained hearing loss
Gatorade is nasty as shit, I agree. I still like powerade though, I was chugging that like there was no tomorrow a couple weeks ago when it was super hot here.I also had no idea there was a name for the thing where things sound slightly higher
Re: Blind services agencies
I haven't had the experience of Braille labels coming off of the microwave after just a few months. It usually takes a year or more, and, at that point, it's often just one number, so I either replace it or do without. Most of the time, it's the frequently used
Re: What do you think of this video?
I only have a couple of quick points to make here. First and foremost, I would argue that, rather than the protests being a result of the political climate, they are more intense than they might otherwise have been because people have been cooped up in
Re: Blindie Connect Radio. Any ideas?
Well, personally, a name like Blindy Connect is just ugh, I wouldn't listen to any station, no matter how good its content, with a title or branding like that. This is coming from someone who made that mistake, i.e. I once had a podcast with the word
How can I electronically sign a PDF form?
Hi all,As the subject says, there's a form that, for reasons of social distancing, I can't sign in the usual way. The option was given to me to sign it electronically using Adobe Reader, but I'm not sure if this can be done with the free version.
Re: Gaging interest in the public electronic game library
I would be interested in that LPC library as well.
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Re: Gaging interest in the public electronic game library
Thanks @29, that's interesting. I've certainly never seen an original unit of the Phrase Madness game, but you've got me curious now.
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Re: Gaging interest in the public electronic game library
Ok, thanks, that makes sense.The two games I was thinking about specifically that I wanted to focus on, both because they're two of my favorites and because they're available to me now and I know for a fact that they work, are
Re: amazing JAWS offer for those in the UK!
Lol, we get it, NVDA is awesome. I hold this view myself. We also know that JAWS is overpriced, this is not news. Unfortunately, some people actually do need to use JAWS for their employment, so piling it on about how NVDA is the cat's meow is
Re: Gaging interest in the public electronic game library
This is a great start so far! I can think of a couple of games that I have which are not included. I don't know if you guys are still taking submissions, or whether I can find these test modes you talk about, but I'm willing to help
Re: Using Slang is Homophobic now?
Yes, the term visually impaired should be used when someone actually does have usable sight, whether it's shadow perception or night blindness. I think it's rather silly for a totally blind individual to refer to themselves as visually impaired just to
Re: Using Slang is Homophobic now?
I didn't know that they were starting to make laptops with built-in mechanical keyboards. That's pretty cool, though I imagine you have to pay a pretty penny for that feature. Is the one you have a full-size keyboard including the num pad?
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Re: Using Slang is Homophobic now?
@56, you have got to be fucking shitting me right now. I wasn't going to respond to this topic at all (I rarely respond to much on here these days) but any sympathy I had for your cause, of which I had at least a small amount, is completely gone once you
Re: being admin of a tt server, any tips?
Doesn't it use more bandwidth than Team Talk? Either way, thanks for the tip about adjusting the volume of users, that's good to know.
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Re: The best Twitter client for iOS?
I just use the official Twitter app.
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Re: What IOS podcast downloader do you use?
The lack of ability to import or export Opml files in Apple Podcasts is a major dealbreaker for me, so I've never really given it a chance. I like Downcast personally, though if you're subscribed to a bunch of podcasts, it's best to refresh them
Re: What should I do?
You can easily get a 2TB drive for a lot less than that. As storage options increase, the smaller ones tend to fall pretty rapidly in price. A quick search on Amazon shows me that even a portable 2TB Segate drive runs for just over $62. If you get a powered one, it
Re: being admin of a tt server, any tips?
If you're going to stream using the control s feature, at least warn people to turn their media vs. voice volume way the hell down. I'd much rather route audio myself so that I can have greater control over that, and hopefully not deafen someone in
Re: Copy and Pasting in Dropbox Not Working
A similar thing happened to my partner recently. He fixed it by signing out of his Dropbox account, exiting the program, then relaunching it and signing back in. Hopefully that works for you as well.
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Re: What should I do?
People like to shit on Seagate drives for some reason, but I've had nothing but good luck with them. Both of my current drives, which see heavy daily use, a 4TB and an 8TB drive, are made by Seagate. The 8TB drive I've had for about a year and a half, and the 4TB
Re: Does anyone on here (sighted or not) enjoy shooting?
This is something I've always wanted to do. My partner and I were discussing it a couple weeks back. I was musing that going to a shooting range probably wouldn't be easy as a blind person since the staff would most likely freak the
Re: What Gives, YouTube
@17, I don't think he was literally saying not to name a channel that. Even if he were, I highly doubt one random forum post would sway the decision of the person who's creating the channel. I took it as more of a friendly bit of advice. Extra dark gaming does not
Re: Gauging Interest in a reddit desktop (Windows & Mac) Application
Yes please. And +1 to the suggestion of keyboard shortcuts with an optionally invisible interface.
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Re: Covid Fearers, Please Read
@40, no, sorry, but posts like 26 and 28 hit the nail on the head here. You don't play nice with people who don't understand the seriousness of the current situation. I very easily could have lost one of the most important people in my life a few weeks ago.
Re: What are the youtube channels you watch regularlly?
In addition to some that have already been mentioned, like Dark Docs, The Infographics Show, Alltime 10's, and several others, here are some of the ones I watch.PoparenaJaboody DubsCNETEngadgetTechmoanDatabitsThose last two are for
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
A. Even seemingly healthy people can develop complications due to this virus. i've lived through this, though vicariously, and what hell it was. I am still deeply shaken.B. I don't know what will happen any more than any of the rest of you,
Re: What's your preference romantically?
I'm not sure why this would need to be a poll anyway. I'll answer your question, though. The majority of my relationships, including my current one, have been with blind partners, but that wasn't because I was systematically eliminating sighted
Re: Declining Mental Health, Do You Need to Vent?
I just want to say that I'm extremely grateful that a topic like this exists. While I can't, and shouldn't, go too deep into my own personal struggles due to this outbreak, crushing though they are, in a public space, I have to say that I
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
The thing that bothers me about the possibility of this being bio warfare is that many people who do test positive are asymptomatic, while others have mild symptoms that are more of an annoyance than anything, which they bounce back from in
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
I'm right with you there, @397. I'm not of Asian descent, but I can try to empathize. Plus, living with people who believe all the garbage that's being spread about how this is bio warfare is enough to make me want to rip my hair out. You
Re: Why bother?
I don't remember you saying anything controversial here. I can think of some people on this forum that I don't like based on their posts, but I always try to remember that the majority of people don't like me based on my posts, either. So if somebody said something to you
Re: Anybody know a way to download all episodes of a podcast?
Without a podcatcher, there is no way that I'm aware of, though I'd seriously love a way to do this as well. But even if QCast still worked reliably, which was the best one for Windows by a long shot when it was actually good,
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
The stay at home order in my state has been extended until the 30th of April. Not even slightly surprising, but I'm sure it will continue to get pushed back as more cases are confirmed.As for me, it's funny. I always spent a lot of time at
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
The stay at home order in my state has been extended until the 30th of April. Not even slightly surprising, but I'm sure it will continue to get pushed back as more cases are confirmed.As for me, it's funny. I always spent a lot of time at
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
I do agree with the point that was made about social distancing being an awkward term. It certainly is stigmatizing, as though we all have to tiptoe around each other, even from afar, for fear of being dirty. I know that's not what's meant
Re: socializing - any tips?
I'm genuinely sorry that your parents gave you such backwards advice. I can't say I'm surprised, unfortunately, since mine told me that having friends meant nothing, only getting good grades mattered, but damn. Forgive me for saying so, but that response shows a
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
@349, I meant that Trump is trying to get the state governors to relax their restrictions, which hopefully won't happen. That would be a disaster right now.
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Re: how can I root my system audio through VAC?
The NVDA add-on and/or JAWS scripts work wonders. That's the only way I would have been able to make heads or tails of it, anyway, particularly the control panel.
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Re: Best free VPN for Windows?
On IOS, it's fine. I can't speak to other operating systems.
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Re: Some babbling from an isolated
The problem for me is, playing games takes a lot of focus that I don't have right now. Games I'm familiar with, like Crazy Party, are ok, though I've definitely been doing worse than usual because of worrying about things. That's why Dice World has been
Re: an invitation I make to you
Huh, well, that was a much more roundabout way of asking people to join your server than most people bother to do, so props for that I guess?
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Re: Best free VPN for Windows?
There's no such thing as a good free VPN. but if you must use one, Tunnel Bear has the best reputation of the lot. Of course, with a free account, you can only use 500MB per month.
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Re: What's your favorite type of Harry Potter fan fiction.
Harry and Draco pairings have always intrigued me, if done well, that is. Some Harry and hermione pairings can be good too. As for subgenres, I don't really have any, but I definitely prefer fanfics that have an alternat ending to
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
See, I still don't think a national lockdown would work here in the US. As much as my opinion has changed on the seriousness of the virus and its implications in the past week or so, I would still be extremely wary of such measures being
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Yes, that's what I was more or less saying, just in a less flowery fashion. Believe me, I have reasons to be scared and concerned right now, so it offends me on a personal level that Trump is actually trying to say that things can get back
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Yes, that's what I was more or less saying, just in a less flowery fashion. Believe me, I have reasons to be scared and concerned right now, so it offends me on a personal level that Trump is actually trying to say that things can get back
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Yes, that's what I was more or less saying, just in a less flowery fashion. Believe me, I have reasons to be scared and concerned right now, so it offends me on a personal level that Trump is actually trying to say that things can get back
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Yeah, I watched that video which was posted yesterday where the guy from China talked about how things were getting back to normal there. I was also reading that cases in New York, not surprisingly, the state that's currently been hit
Re: Coronavirus sales and giveaways
They shouldn't, they have a whole bunch of payment options, everything from PayPal to credit cards to lots of different gift card options.
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Re: How you are spending your time?
@13, I've sent you a PM. Hopefully it worked, I know the system can be flaky sometimes.
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Re: Coronavirus sales and giveaways
@19, thank you for the heads up about Private internet Access, that's definitely cool. That's one offer I'm going to sign up for.
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Re: Coronavirus sales and giveaways
@19, thank you for the heads up, that's definitely cool. That's one offer I'm going to sign up for.
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Re: Finally, tts voices could come to IOS
@37, are you joking?
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Re: How you are spending your time?
@2, what's your username on Dice World? I'd like to play you sometime if you don't mind. Mine is turtlepower, and that goes for anyone else too, I can play all the games. I despise Pig, but all the rest are good.As for what I'm doing? Well, nothing
Re: accessible Podcatchers on Windows?
Yeah, unfortunately, QCast isn't so great anymore. It used to be a solid podcatcher, until it stopped receiving updates. Now, many feeds that you add can't be interacted with at all. I haven't found anything that comes close to the functionality that
Re: VIP Lounge. Chat with other Visually impaired people!
If you use the Canary build, you'll receive the latest fixes. Usually, accessibility improvements are part of that, though last time I checked, the stable version was decent as well.
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Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Yeah, there really are no best practices. Common sense is the one thing that gets us pretty far in terms of most things, and I hope it will be a solid guide where this is concerned too, but we'll just have to see.Another thing I wanted to
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