Re: I am affronted by the presence of god
@Camlorn, in my experience people can definitely be convinced into atheism. It happened to me and to some other people I know as well. I do agree that you probably do need to be a particular kind of person though, I'm not exactly sure how to
Re: Tips for safely walking on ice?
This was actually so interesting to read because I've never experienced snow of any kind. I didn't realise it could be so disruptive, and didn't know you could fall so easily when walking on ice. I suppose it makes sense, I just never thought about it.
Re: People who live in the US, what schools for the blind are the best?
@Jayde, the "people of colour" thing is interesting, because in South Africa coloured is a racial category. We've traditionally had four main racial categories: black, coloured, white and indian.
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Re: People who live in the US, what schools for the blind are the best?
Basically what camlorn said. I don't know of any examples of what you're talking about. Can you mention any case where a black person got away with or got a light sentence for murdering a white person? Racial hate
Re: Blatent account theft and alts
I agree with 15. The restriction topic was actually created to prevent spam bots from registering, which are weeded out by requiring people to post something relating to audiogames. The original intention was not to filter the humans that register. We've
Re: Microsoft word crash with NVDA
I ran the COM registration fixing tool in NVDA's tools menu but still have the issue. I also tried running old versions of NVDA from their installers (the option that says continue running) and it still crashed. Also tried deleting my word configuration
Microsoft word crash with NVDA
Microsoft word seems to crash whenever it's opened while NVDA is running, either by opening a word document or when creating a new blank document. When just opening the app it works, until you enter on blank document to take you to the blank document to edit.
Re: How do you guys dispense water?
I googled it, camlorn seems to be right. The following is pasted from wikipedia:The choice of supply voltage is due more to historical reasons than optimization of the electric power distribution system—once a voltage is in use and equipment using this
Re: what is tikk tak toe
Looked it up, it seems to be another name for noughts and crosses. Not sure who calls it tic tac toe, but I didn't know this name either.
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Re: Announcing the release of the periodic table by Nathan Tech
Ah thanks, missed that, don't know why it didn't occur to me to press tab.
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Re: How do you guys dispense water?
Agreed with dark, it's also a normal part of a kitchen for us, everyone has them and I also didn't realise this wasn't the case in some countries. I forgot not all countries use the same voltage, ours is around 220. Didn't know that difference would have
Re: What's Your Favorite Kind of Tea
In South Africa the most common tea is rooibos tea, which is what I drink most often. I also like what we call chai tea but I think is actually called masala chai. There is this chinese thing called bubble tea which is really nice but I haven't been
Re: Why Are You All Moving to Telegram and Signal From WhatsApp?
Has anyone ever got hacked and had sensitive info fallen into the wrong hands because of what whatsapp has on them? I'm sure a significant portion of the world population uses whatsapp, not sure about the number but I can
Re: How do you guys dispense water?
5 minutes, even 3 minutes is a rather slow kettle by my standards as well. Haven't actually timed ours but I have a rough idea of how long it feels to heat something in the microwave for 3 minutes and I'm pretty sure most kettles don't take that long.
Re: Announcing the release of the periodic table by Nathan Tech
After opening the details of an element by pressing enter I can't seem to get out of that list; control E doesn't work and neither does any other shortcut, so I have to alt f4 and then reopen the app. Could you make it so you
Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum...
As far as I know people think Egyptians got the idea of writing from the Sumerians, but the system of writing was then created independently, so I suppose whether it's an independent invention depends on if you're talking about the writing system or the
Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum...
As far as I know people think Egyptians got the idea of writing from the Sumerians, but the system of writing was then created independently, so I suppose whether it's an independent invention depends on if you're talking about the writing system or the
Re: spotify questions
On windows you can do something like a copy and paste and press ctrl +c on a song and ctrl +v in the playlist to add it, and press delete on a song to remove it. You can also hold shift and arrow through songs to select them to either copy or delete them all. Hope
Re: Accessible periodic table?
I used to always use the one on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_ … iled_tableI feel like it used to be better, but not sure if I'm just remembering wrong. It was years ago, I only did first year chemistry.
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Re: Braille: do you guys still use it in this digitalized world?
Braille displays are very, very expensive, at least over here, and I have been wondering how so many people on here seem to have them. Are they affordable in your countries? Or do you get them through some organisation? The
Re: Monthly chat, November 2020
On the other hand, for those of us in the southern hemisphere it's getting way too hot and I wish I could just go live in Antarctica for the summer. Our corona cases also went down, but then people got too relaxed and now we have a bit of an uptick linked to
Re: Monthly Chat November 2020
@8 it really seems so. Someone tries to create it too early, and then other people are upset because it's "unfair", which makes me think people see it as some kind of competition to see who can do it first. Anyway, not a great start to a monthly discussion
Re: academics, what is your reference management workflow?
I use EndNote. It's not free, but we get to use it for free through my university. It does have its issues. For example, manually adding/editing information for a reference in the application is pretty inaccessible. Fortunately it
Re: Let's discuss
@CAE, are the Scandinavians really the only successful representatives of socialism? I thought most western European countries have some socialist aspects, including even the UK which at least has free health care. I think Canada might also have some, but not entirely
Re: Let's discuss
And agreed about removing money not really seeming like a realistic proposal. As long as there are going to be exchanges between people, money is going to be a convenient way of facilitating that exchange. Like CAE says, whatever you're going to replace it with is
Re: Let's discuss
@36: I'm not sure how socialism prevents growth on an individual level. I would think it's the opposite, with free education etc providing the poor with more opportunity than in a capitalist system where you need to be able to afford to send your children to school in the
Re: Let's discuss
Oh and @Khomus, I do think you have a point, at least partially. People are naturally cooperative and empathetic, it's not like those things are only features of modern society. But unfortunately people are also quite tribal, and tend to form competing groups. Warfare
Re: Let's discuss
@拓海You seem to put a lot of emphasis on military strength. Even though that used to be important, I think the world is moving away from military action. When was the last time a war took place between major countries? Even invasions of weaker countries are becoming rare.
Re: questions about Spotify
@Marro, I didn't know that, thanks! I'll try it.
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Re: questions about Spotify
There are a few accessibility issues, although they're just annoying rather than major problems. On iphone you can't swipe through podcast episodes, you only get through about 2 or 3 before it jumps back to the beginning; so you have to swipe up with three
Re: your opinion on china
@Jayde, that was actually discussed a bit earlier in this thread, look at post 63 for his counter.
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Re: Urgent: Help with blackboard needed
Try with both firefox and chrome, at some point it worked better with the one than with the other but can't remember which way around. But like others have said, typing it somewhere else and pasting it in is probably your best bet, that's what I used
Re: Azerbaijan and Armenia war
Where are you getting the 25000? The highest numbers I've heard are in the low thousands.
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Re: Avatar The Last Airbender is finally described!
Legend of Korra was also described actually.
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Re: your opinion on china
@拓海But Taiwan was not part of China from ancient times. As far as I understand, Chinese only went to the island in large numbers when it was conquered by Koxinga to resist the Manchu invasion. So the Qing dynasty was the first to make it part of China. The same
Re: your opinion on china
@拓海But Taiwan was not part of China from ancient times. As far as I understand, Chinese only went to the island in large numbers when it was conquered by Koxinga to resist the Manchu invasion. So the Qing dynasty was the first to make it part of China. The sam
Re: your opinion on china
@拓海I'm confused why Taiwan is regarded as a province of China. During the civil war the Kuomintang government retreated to Taiwan, and it was never conquered by the communist forces that took over the mainland. So it's not controlled by the same government. It
Re: Azerbaijan and Armenia war
Agreed about nationalism, it's sad how tribal humans are. We can so easily be divided by arbitrary categories, like on which side of a line on a map you were born. I guess it's one of our innate proclivities that we have to keep working to overcome.
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Re: Azerbaijan and Armenia war
Agreed about nationalism, it's sad how tribal humans are. We can so easily be divided by arbitrary categories, like on which side of a line on a map you were born.
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Re: Azerbaijan and Armenia war
So as far as I understand, modern India was founded as a secular republic with the goal of securing the rights of religious minorities (not only muslims but also buddhists, jains, sikhs etc.) It does seem like Modi has been eroding these secular foundations
Re: What do you think about the Corona virus conspiracy theories?
That sounds more Japanese. I checked and google translate automatically detects it as Japanese, but if you manually set it to Chinese then it gives a different translation. I think it's because Chinese and Japanese share
Re: What do you think about the Corona virus conspiracy theories?
Bacteriophages are what we call viruses that infect bacteria. They don't infect us though, bacterial and animal cells are very different from each other and I don't know of any virus that infects both. So I doubt SARS-CoV-2
How to copy a table from a webpage?
Is there any way to copy a table from a web page and paste it as a table form in word or excel? Excel has a way to import tables from a URL, which does kind of work but tends to cause some weird issues. I guess the major issue is how to select a table
Re: How can I use nord vpn on windows?
I haven't tried it for chrome yet, but in firefox you tab after the search thingy you get when you press ctrl +e, and if it says library button you right-arrow until you find the NordVPN extension and enter. Then there's a quick connect button and a
Re: Your favorite podcasts?
I like Economist Radio, their episodes are short and cover major news stories (like the explosion in Beirut, the coup in Mali, protests in Belarus etc), but also random obscure stories that you would have never heard of otherwise. I just check the description
Re: a huge congratulation to...
I do agree with Munawar though, Jayde did kind of give the impression that our opinions were pretty much irrelevant, even if that wasn't his intention. So I do understand why someone with an issue wouldn't raise it until a person who they thought probably
Re: How can I use nord vpn on windows?
It has a firefox addon (and I'm assuming a chrome one too) that's much more accessible than the main program on windows.Edit: the firefox addon and the chrome extension.
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Re: How can I use nord vpn on windows?
It has a firefox addon (and I'm assuming a chrome one too) that's much more accessible than the main program on windows.
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Re: This "FTL == Time-Travel" thing still does not make sense to me.
@14 I've heard the analogy of a heavy ball creating a dent in a sheet causing everything else close enough to roll towards it. That doesn't really make sense to me though, isn't that because of gravity that that happens
Re: This "FTL == Time-Travel" thing still does not make sense to me.
Time being a human construct has always made the most sense to me. But then the one thing that I don't get is how does gravity influence time? Why does time pass more slowly the closer you get to a more massive object?
Re: How do you handle crossing roads in a straight line?
I also have this issue, and don't really have a solution unfortunately. For some reason it seems to be hard to keep a straight line without any reference to keep you going the same direction, and I'm not entirely sure why. My
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
How mine works is that I have the experience of seeing things, but only things that I know are there. So I guess my brain just makes up a visual representation of things I am aware of by other senses. Dark eagle's comparison to a phantom limb
Re: Monthly Chat - August, 2020
Afrim, good luck with the quarantine. It sounds like you're asymptomatic so I can imagine the isolation is probably the worst part of it.
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Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
I don't think people are saying guns should be banned completely. I don't know how it works in America and other countries, but in South Africa to get a firearm licence you need to write a test proving you understand gun safety rules etc,
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
@105 I've always wondered if it's just me! This is exactly what happens to me, and I lost my vision long before my 20s. Not sure exactly but by high school I had basically nothing left except a bit of light perception (and even that has
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
@Camlorn I saw this thread when it just started including your first post, and was skeptical about what you said thinking that there are probably not enough people wanting to remain blind that there are likely to be any here. Apparently I was
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
Interesting, I'm very surprised so many people here would not choose to restore their vision. I didn't know this was a sentiment that existed, especially not in significant numbers. It does seem from what I've read here that it it's mostly
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
About everyone getting it eventually, that's not really true. Some countries have managed to eliminate it completely, in some cases with relatively few cases. If prevention strategies don't work, is it just coincidence that America and
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Just wanted to say that post 577 got me interested enough to google the history of Trinidad and Tobago. It sounds like the whole of Europe was fighting over your islands back in the day. Just a snippet: "On 11 December 1659, the Courlanders
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re experts contradicting themselves, that's primarily because, despite not feeling like it, this virus is still relatively recent, so what is known about it keeps changing as more studies are done and more data comes in. I get that it seems
Re: World War II
I've actually always wondered why Hitler more than anyone else became associated with the epitome of evil. Was it because the nazis conducted targeted genocide of particular groups while Stalin just seemingly randomly mass-murdered his own citizens, or is it more a history
Re: monthly chat june 2020
@19 congrats! Sounds like you did very well. I'm curious how that system works though, do the numbers correspond to marks within a certain range, like 1 being >=80% etc?@Dark have you ever considered doing something for choice of games? I have no idea how writing
Re: is there a good and accessible replacement for file explorer?
Haven't seen it mentioned on this thread but explorer++ is also an option, I use it for when my file explorer is giving issues and it's so much faster.
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Re: monthly chat june 2020
Read about the cyclone that hit Bangladesh and India in the news, didn't it kill something like 80 people? Also, east Africa has been having issues with locusts and I think I remember reading somewhere that because their numbers are growing they'll expand to
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
I don't know how it works in America, but in South Africa we had a president who was hated by a vast majority of the population who still got reelected because the party has majority support. So someone doesn't need to get popular approval,
Re: Clipboard Game, paste whatever is on you're clipboard.
https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral … 20-00863-4
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Re: Does anyone on here (sighted or not) enjoy shooting?
I did go to a shooting range with my dad and brother a few times, but for me there's not really much to shooting. You just pull a trigger, hear a bang and feel the recoil and that didn't really keep my interest for long. I think it
Re: VIP Lounge: A discord server where VI people can chat about anything!
I did try joining but a scammy-looking website about making quick money came up. What's that about. This doesn't happen with other discord links, I could join the audiovault's server for example without any issues.
Re: The contrast between targerian and stark
I feel like you should have a spoiler warning in the beginning of your post.
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Re: An audio described games channel.
Interesting, I'm surprised this doesn't have more views
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Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
For those people who keep saying the virus is man-made, please read this:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
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Re: Try and figure out my signature. Hint. You won't!
I would have guessed a monkey on a keyboard
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Re: how I can obtain harry potter and star wars with audio description?
What 92 said. I mean we're paying for netflix, why should we have to pay extra for a vpn to watch shows people in other countries can get by just paying for netflix? They're getting our money anyway so I don't see
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Seriously @358, I sincerely hope you never get any form of power if your first thoughts of dealing with an uprising is needing snipers, tanks and chemical agents!
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Re: how I can obtain harry potter and star wars with audio description?
The main point here is that before the admins specifically said that discussing it is fine, but that no direct links would be allowed. They're moving the goal posts now. It's like they're slowly taking it to where they
Re: how I can obtain harry potter and star wars with audio description?
The main point here is that before the admins specifically said that discussing it is fine, but that no direct links would be allowed. They're moving the goal posts now. It's like they're slowly taking it to where they
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Yesterday a lockdown was also announced over here starting friday. We were at 402 confirmed cases in the country when this was announced, apparently it's 554 today (but fortunately no deaths yet). It's also starting to hit the rest of
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
For the longest time South Africa and most of Africa actually didn't have any cases. Just recently we were making fun of how people from other countries were panicking, but then we got 1 case, then 2, then 3, then 7, and now it's up to 13,
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Oh and as far as a global economic recession is concerned, I think that is already unavoidable. And on top of the corona-related issues we have the oil crash due to Saudi Arabia's price war, which is also making things worse. Our currency
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
For the longest time South Africa and most of Africa actually didn't have any cases. Just recently we were making fun of how people from other countries were panicking, but then we got 1 case, then 2, then 3, then 7, and now it's up to 13,
Re: your first and current phone
I also had one of those phones where you had to memorise the menus, it was a nokia something, the number 5210 comes up in my head but no idea if it's the right one. Wasn't really mine though, it was an old phone borrowed to me, I think initially when I was
Re: audiovault, suggesting or asking for specific audiodescriptions
They have an email on the site, just email them. There's also a search feature to see if something is already there.
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Re: What languages do you want to learn?
Lol @6 when you learn South African you need to teach me as well.
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Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
Just to add onto 209, there is a condition known as androgen insensitivity syndrome. People with this condition are genetically male, but fail to respond to male hormones to varying degrees. This results in a spectrum from mostly male with slight
Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
@210, I'm not sure this debate isn't worth it. I feel like not responding like 209 did might give the impression to some that posts like 201 have the intellectual high ground, which they don't. I know people who have their positions for emotional
Re: data science tutorials
Thanks for introducing me to jupytext, I need that in my life. There's way too much code in jupytr notebooks that's inconvenient to read through.
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Re: Reverse geocoding question
Hi, you can try geonames. I used their downloadable database, it was the best free one I could find. Haven't looked at the web service though.
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Re: surely this is a thing? If not, is there a market for it in our commun
If it would be a more convenient way to get text between my laptop and phone I would use it. At the moment I usually either create a file on dropbox or send a skype message to someone then delete it after copying
Re: Warning about the newest NVDA update
@Munawar what was the issue with notepad++?
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Re: Warning about the newest NVDA update
Interestingly with this version of NVDA I can't use the windows onecore voices. When I try to load it from synthesisers I get an error with this message: "Could not load the oneCore synthesizer."This isn't really an issue for me since I don't use it
Re: Warning about the newest NVDA update
Does anyone know where I can get an updated version of the speech history addon?
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Re: a website with audio described movies.
@98:Your first example is actually a counterpoint to what you're trying to say. I remember that topic, and as far as I remember most if not everyone supported the developer and were shocked that someone would do that, meaning this is not an issue
Re: a website with audio described movies.
@98:Your first example is actually a counterpoint to what you're trying to say. I remember that topic, and as far as I remember most if not everyone supported the developer and were shocked that someone would do that, meaning this is not an issue
Re: a website with audio described movies.
@98:Your first example is actually a counterpoint to what you're trying to say. I remember that topic, and as far as I remember most if not everyone supported the developer and were shocked that someone would do that, meaning this is not an issue
Re: a website with audio described movies.
The way I see it, developers who come on here would create a topic and mostly stick to that topic. Maybe look for other topics relating to their game, but most likely not have the time to really read through all the other unrelated stuff. Which
Re: a website with audio described movies.
Ok I almost feel like 58 is not really worth responding to but I've decided to anyway. Just because people think homosexual marriages are ok or the death penalty for not following a certain religion is wrong, does that mean we have to change that?
Re: a website with audio described movies.
@60 I'm fairly confident no developer will be put off by the fact that someone on some topic somewhere on the forum posted a link to audio only tracks of movies, I mean why would they? On the other hand, I can see how developers might be put off
Re: a website with audio described movies.
I suppose bringing this up again is kind of pointless because we've been through this already, but I really still don't get it. What exactly is the point of the rule? The reasons seem to not always be exactly the same, but the most common one is
Re: a website with audio described movies.
I suppose bringing this up again is kind of pointless because we've been through this already, but I really still don't get it. What exactly is the point of the rule? The reasons seem to not always be exactly the same, but the most common one is
Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
@179, please explain how anyone is "shoving it onto you"?
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