Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
Precisely, though in fairness not everyone has the time to constantly tweak and maintain. There should be a balance between intuitiveness and practicallity, and frankly if a person can't wrap their head around the concept of an executable file or have at
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
I agree with everything said here about Windows; it's bloated, messy and a pain in the ass to get configured. That being said, I used to have 8.1 and 10 running on an old single-core 1.86 x86 laptop, 1.5 gb of RAM (no paging file) and a slow 80 GB SATA
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
I actually understand why newer processors won't be supported on earlier versions; MS is trying to avoid what happened with XP. There's already a huge and ridiculously complex infrastructure in Windows for maintaining compatibility with older
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
I'd say I have about the same amount of control I did on 8.1, so not really a loss there. I can't pick and choose which updates are downloaded by default, but I never really did that on earlier versions anyway except for the 8.1
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
I think I said this previously in this thread, but what pisses me off even more than the privacy violations is how MS is so presumptuous as to have things set to run in the background and automatically upload data by default, wasting
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Yeah I've disabled it in both Group Policy and the registry (the group policy setting doesn't seem to change the registry value) as well as all the "diagnostic" services and scheduled tasks. Using NVDA; Eloquence is actually one of the
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Yeah I gave up and am on 10, surprisingly it's actually not that bad. I disabled syncing and everything (services, tasks, registry values) that has to do with telemetry, and only start the Windows Update service when I actually want to
Re: need help from someone who knows their way around computer issues
Also check your event logs (type eventvwr.msc into the search or run box) and check for any warnings or errors. Under Custom Views you will see Administrative Events, they should all be listed there.
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Re: The future Mrs. Dark
Shouldn't she be known as Mrs. Light?
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Re: Right to die and quality of life
I don't understand why whether or not animals intentionally kill themselves is relevant. I think condemning people for thinking of suicide and telling them they'd be selfish to do it is not only wrong, it displays a disgusting lack of understanding and
Re: Right to die and quality of life
Yeah, what Cae said about different worlds. A new perspective is always interesting though.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=243545#p243545
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Re: Right to die and quality of life
What if one doesn't wish to share their life with another person? What if they want to live a life of travel, with friends or by them self? No disrespect intended, but I believe it's very wrong to say someone should! want something because society
Re: Right to die and quality of life
@Thunderfist I could also post a long response but will refrain from doing so as well; I think these are things we will have to agree to disagree about. I will ask, however, what do you say to women (or men, though I get the feeling you're putting the
Re: Some questions about android and apps
The default Google Keyboard acts like touch typing mode on iOS; if it's not installed on your phone just install it from the play store. Not sure about a navigation app, I'm still looking for one myself.
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Re: best speech synthesizer
Eloquence, followed by Espeak, then Dectalk. They may not sound too human, but as others have said they have actual inflection. I can't stand reading a book with the Evona or Vocalizer voices, but if I slow down Eloquence Reid enough it's tolerable.
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Re: Monthly chat December 2015
I believe Leviathan Chronicles is dead, unfortunately. The last post on the website is over a year old, and I heard a rumor on the forum that one of the main guys moved to California. Pretty sad; it had some plot holes and inconsistencies, but I would have
Re: Where do you get your music?
@Bucklee12 my card works fine, have not had any problems at all with it. You will most likely need to use Linux to format it though, as the default filesystem on cards of that size is XFAT, which Rockbox does not support. Might not be worth the hastle if
Re: Where do you get your music?
I've never heard of this RB Clip program, just use Rockbox Utility. It's got a couple minor accessibility annoyances, but it works fine. I'd be hesitant to trust this Talking MP3 players site, if only because I think their business practice is totally
Re: Where do you get your music?
Anything larger than 32GB is going to be SDXC.
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Re: Where do you get your music?
Like I said in a previous post, when these players were being made the 8GB model was going for like $50. The person or people behind that sight were slapping Rockbox on them, apparently giving people sketchy information about the players being designed for
Re: keynote gold multimedia multilingual tts source code?
I don't mean to come off as rude, but seriously what's the obsession with KNG dude? It's a terrible synthesizer. I had to use it for reading books when I was younger and it sucked. It's unpleasant to listen to for extended periods,
Re: Where do you get your music?
Also, on the sight they neglect to mention that those Clip players are no longer supported, and Rockbox development proceeds at a crawl; I think it's only a matter of time before it's abandoned due to lack of resources. That being said, I just looked on
Re: Where do you get your music?
Rockbox was never intended for blind people; voicing was introduced as a feature because it was wanted by users and developers, so that you don't have to take the player out of pocket to look at it. About the label recording, that can be done with the
Re: Where do you get your music?
The database option is in the main menu, if it's not showing up something is very different about your Rockbox build or configuration. Maybe try deleting the configuration file and see if that helps.
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Re: Where do you get your music?
Yes, Bandcamp FTW! I usually either use that or order CDs directly from Amazon, because I can rip the to FLAC. For a player I use the Sansa Clip ZIp with ROckbox, though I've heard VLC for iOS has a wi-fi upload feature that lets you load music to the
Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person
I will say that while in high school (from which I just graduated last June) all, and I do mean all, of the Mexican girls I met treated me differently. Can't really explain it specifically, just got the impression they were very
Re: Right to die and quality of life
I don't have much to say that hasn't been said already, except that with regards to the affect suicide would have on others, I think it could be argued that's the case with any decision in life, so just by being born a being with free will who has
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
@Sebby thanks for that, I thought WSUS was a Microsoft thing and had to be run on the server editions of Windows. It seems that there was another "Update to the Diagnostic experience"/Whateverthefuckthey'recallingitnow update last
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
I'm back on 8.1 if anyone is interested, got fed up with Win10's sluggishness in addition to all these privacy concerns. Will hopefully get around to slipstreaming an ISO with updates someday...
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Re: Changing Talkback volume with volume buttons?
This doesn't seem to work either, but I'll keep trying.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=235168#p235168
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Re: Changing Talkback volume with volume buttons?
That's really annoying, if I'm in a noisy environment I don't want to have to try and navigate to speech settings possibly not being able to hear it, and if the volume is too high there's going to be loud speech until I can turn it down.
Changing Talkback volume with volume buttons?
Any way to do this? Just switched to an Android phone and am mostly liking it, but this is actually a pretty big issue for me.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=235034#p235034
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Unfortunately, it's not always as simple as "just get Linux." Hardware support and accessibility are steadily improving, but they're not up to par with Windows or OS X. If you're on a laptop, battery life is usually also a pretty big
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Well, I've officially lost all respect for Microsoft. This is a slap in the face to the user. They're essentially saying "you're an idiot and can't think for yourself, so we're going to decide what's best for you and you're computer,
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Looks like most if not all of it can still be disabled through task scheduler at least. Still, as you said, unacceptable and way too inconvenient. Also Win10 still has some new processes running that I can't find any way to disable
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
I like Arch, though Firefox accessibility is still not 100%. That being said, I was running Arch on my Macbook and had everything set up the way I liked it. Then I did a battery life test. Now I'm not running Arch. Think that says it
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Personally, I'm not too concerned about the data going out, since there are millions of computers running Windows and it's highly unlikely mine would be noteworthy enough to be read by an individual. The thing that gets me more than
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Ah man, I've seriously just about had it with Windows, it just gets more and more ridiculous with each version. Think I'll be switching to OS X for most things for all the good that'll do, but I'm sure I'll always have a Windows VM
Re: comparing chromevox with other screen readers like NVDA
Not really related to Chromevox itself, but I personally hate the Google TTS voice. Speech-dispatcher support is still(!) broken in Chromium under Linux, and there didnt seem to be a way to change the voice at all on my
Re: Some questions about iOS
I totally agree with the good and bad music idea, I just like to use genres to find certain things that sound similar. I only discovered that I actually had my own distinct taste in music at 15, about 3 or so years ago, and it took almost another two years for
Re: Monthly chat August 2015
Actually I didnt mean to say Left Behind didnt tell a story, just that it got pretty annoying and preachy at times. Like I said its been a while since I read it, but I recall several books ending on cliffhangers that actually left me wanting more, but then
Re: Some questions about iOS
I dont usually browse by genre but at times I find them useful for finding similar artists, at least to a point, and sometimes its fun to see just what genres individual files have been tagged with.Perhaps we could rename the topic to something like the Battle
Re: Monthly chat August 2015
@Dark, Left Behind is a series about a group of people going through the rapture and end times as depicted in the Bible. I read some of them quite a few years ago mostly for the action which I liked at the time, but the tone of the books seemed more anti
Re: Some questions about iOS
In Rockbox you get the best of both worlds, since you can browse by tags or filenames depending on your mood. The nice thing about the database feature is that it will scan the whole player including the SD card, and its structured so that theres no separation
Re: Monthly chat August 2015
I guess this is a bit random, but wanted to share this beautiful yet disturbing and extremely haunting song. Dont think Id want to fall asleep with this on lol. I love it and at the same time I think Im a little afraid of it, it just sounds so ominous at least
Re: Some questions about iOS
Still using the same card with my Sansa and have no problems, so doubt the card had much if anything to do with it. I think it might be more my perception than anything; Im used to having items announced instantly and quickly with Rockbox so the delay was
Re: Some questions about iOS
I think the navigation thing is just personal preference. The Sansa with Rockbox acts like a normal removable drive, with the internal memory and the SD card listed as separate disks, so no complexity there, plus it stores bookmarks and configuration settings
Re: Some questions about iOS
@Dark, I got the newest model, and I think some of my speed issues were because of the large (500+ at any given time) number of music files and folders Id have on one card. Still I found the navigation to be pretty cumbersome, and the wait while it spoke with
Re: Some questions about iOS
I think tripple-click home is set to toggle VO by default in the iPhone 5 or 5S and later, not sure of the model. It only works on the setup screen of my 4 unless I configure it manually, if I recall.
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Re: Some questions about iOS
Hmm, interesting. Might have been because I was using a 32gb Micro SD card, but theyre fast enough on all my other devices. I guess Im just used to the traditional method of arrowing in and out of folders as opposed to the Streams navigation levels, and I
Re: Some questions about iOS
Just have to say I bought a Victor and hated it, but this is coming from someone whose used to Rockbox which is, in my opinion, much more efficient, even if it spells filenames and cant do anything over the internet. The thing is just way too slow and verbose;
Re: windows 10
Do not like it at all, went back to 8.1 after about three hours. As trivial as it sounds, the only reasons Im still using Windows are Eloquence and the fact that web browsing is slightly more convenient than Linux. I dont care for the voices in OS X either, which is why I
Re: 4chan for blind and visually inpaired?
Okay, Ive refrained from posting in these kind of topics and will continue to do so in the future, but I cant restrain myself. I know Im not a huge contributor to the forum and am not trying to flaunt my opinions but I feel I have to say
Re: Microsoft to integrate openSSH support in Windows
I believe Chrome OS has an SSH client built in, have heard you can simply type ssh in the crosh shell.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=218883#p218883
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Re: Microsoft to integrate openSSH support in Windows
This is nice, dont get me wrong. However personally, all of Microsofts efforts to make Windows support a modern standard always feel clunky, inadequate and half finished to me, and I think this is more of a desperate move to stay up to
Re: Monthly chat June 2015
I am graduating on Saturday and Ive decided to go, though Im not participating in the festivities surrounding the ceremony, just having a little celebration at my house before. Then I guess Im not going to have much to do until Im off to college.
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Re: Skype's Facebook feature is driving me up the wall!
Miranda-ng is quite good, and I think it may use something other than XMPP to connect to Facebook, as it plays sounds for notifications, news feed events etc. Wouldnt be surprised if Facebook has plans to kill that off as well, but
Re: Miranda NG, anyone?
Not sure why controls are unlabeled in JAWS, they read fine in NVDA, as long as theres text in the message field, otherwise I only see the entry and review text fields when tabbing. Selecting the blind contact list during installation might help, but I doubt it
Re: to blind new agers
I unfortunately dont recall in detail everything they said because I was younger at the time, but I also have listened to a couple holocaust survivors tell their stories, and I can say those two accounts alone are all the evidence I need.I follow no religion, though
Re: Announcing Emacspeak 42.0 (AnswerDog)
Im not trying to sound like a prick or anything, but to me the posts on the Emacspeak website feel pretty unprofessional. I get that its probably all in fun, but is that really what you want to be posting on the front page or a website and in
Re: Removing music vocals in gold wave, is it possible?
I dont think the cost or quality of the program is a factor here. From my limited understanding of these things, the only way you can really remove vocals is by removing a set frequency band where they reside, and unfortunately for
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
Very sorry about the hearing loss as well, being deaf-blind is a bitch. I also hate doing any kind of assignment orally, because as well as the problem Afrim mentioned, which is embarrassing, its much harder to edit something youve written. On an unrelated note,
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
@Cae, very well put haha. @Dark, I think Ill probably get Blindsquare, whenever I can scrape up some money for it. Ive always been slightly curious as to how well I might sing, but have never really felt like trying it, think Ill stick to learning piano off and
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
Well, there have been a few things going on here, though not necessarily for the better. My parents may be going through a divorce, which is bad enough, and Im starting to think about moving, being as Im now eighteen, and already feel like I should be doing much
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
Well, there have been a few things going on here, though not necessarily for the better. My parents may be going through a divorce, which is bad enough, and Im starting to think about moving, being as Im now eighteen, and already feel like I should be doing much
Re: Have I just killed my Apex?
I remember a while back a security whole was found where you could telnet into the Apex without a password on the local network. Dont know if Humanware ever fixed this (knowing them, I suspect not) so I wonder if it would be possible to telnet into the Apex
Re: enabling talkback during android setup
Well the shortcut is definitely not disabled, as I got it to work by putting various numbers of fingers on the screen and playing with it a bit. Not exactly sure what I did though.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=211175#p211175
Re: enabling talkback during android setup
Yes, those are the steps according to the Google instructions, but they dont seem to work, and I did get confirmation that the device was on. I believe the shortcut is supposed to be available only during setup unless explicitly enabled
Re: enabling talkback during android setup
I dont know what power menu youre refering to, its on the language selection screen as far as I know.
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Re: enabling talkback during android setup
Its a Hisense Sero 8, if that makes any difference. It doesnt have a home button so I doubt Id be able to use voice commands at the setup screen.
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Re: enabling talkback during android setup
Yeah, Im just going to get sighted assistance for the setup and then upgrade it, since this obviously isnt going to work.
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enabling talkback during android setup
Hey all,Just got a tablet running Android 4.4.2. I know Talkback is preinstalled because I enabled it with sighted assistance without connecting to the internet. I factory reset the device because I wanted to go through the setup process with
Re: Let's Discuss Everything About Star Trek
@Dark, its been a long time since I read the Blish novelizations, but I recall them being terribly monotonous and laid out more like a movie script than anything else. Of course that mightve just been because I was reading them with keynote
Re: Let's Discuss Everything About Star Trek
I wasnt fond of the Peter David books either, most of them seemed to basically turn the whole plot into a high school drama-esque thing. Those Blish novelizations were the first Trek books I ever read, and looking back theyre pretty terrible.
Re: Let's Discuss Everything About Star Trek
Im a fan as well, though not to any major extent besides watching and reading. I actually was introduced to Trek through the books, and still havent watched a series in its entirety, though Id say Ive seen all of the important episodes except
Re: The zombie apocalypse has just started. Look to your left.
My portable keyboard and its stand. The keyboard is made mainly of plastic so dont think Id be able to do much bashing with that, but the stand is essentially some crisscrossed metal bars, so might be able to use that as either
Re: Uncle! Yosemite it is, then.
Just a comment about the keyboard thing. Not being able to raise settings in NVDA with the synth ring keys is not unique to apple keyboards. Its an issue for me both with my Logitech bluetooth keyboard, as well as in my XP VM under Linux. I believe it has
Re: Uncle! Yosemite it is, then.
Just a few mostly related thoughts I cant help posting.I dont own a Mac, so cant comment at all on OS X; Ive only used it a few times and not for web browsing. Ive used Safari a bit on my phone running iOS 7, but found it incredibly frustrating and havent
Re: Monthly chat January 2015
Yeah, the depictions were terrible and werent meant to be taken seriously at all, I just wanted to try and incorporate them into the storyline.As for books Im not much into fantasy currently, though I suppose that could change someday. Going to be reading
Re: Monthly chat January 2015
Since this topics been quiet for a while, I figured Id post this for some entertainment.Its an assignment I did for psychology class, in which you create a parody of a fairy tale that deals with mental illnesses and uses psychological terms; mine was a very
Re: disturbing nightmares
At this point, its not worth it to me to go through the hassle of getting a prescription and dealing with side effects, not to mention the fact that I still live at home, so Id probably have to involve my parents for transportation if nothing else; while Im sure
Re: disturbing nightmares
At this point, its not worth it to me to go through the hassle of getting a prescription and dealing with side effects, not to mention the fact that I still live at home, so Id probably have to involve my parents for transportation if nothing else; while Im sure
Re: disturbing nightmares
At this point, its not worth it to me to go through the hassle of getting a prescription and dealing with side effects, not to mention the fact that I still live at home, so Id probably have to involve my parents for transportation if nothing else; while Im sure
Re: disturbing nightmares
At this point, its not worth it to me to go through the hassle of getting a prescription and dealing with side effects, not to mention the fact that I still live at home, so Id probably have to involve my parents for transportation if nothing else; while Im sure
Re: disturbing nightmares
Im honestly not crazy about the idea of getting counseling. Some of it might have to do with that bad social stigma (though I probably wouldnt outright admit it to myself) but mostly just because I dont think itd help that much. I get plenty of time to
Re: disturbing nightmares
At this point, its not worth it to me to go through the hassle of getting a prescription and dealing with side effects, not to mention the fact that I still live at home, so Id probably have to involve my parents for transportation if nothing else; while Im sure
disturbing nightmares
First off, I dont really expect to get any help by posting this here. This has been going on for quite a while now and while its disturbing, I seem to have gotten used to it as much as one can to this sort of thing. Ive Googled around and there dont seem to be people
Re: Surviving something major like an EMP?
Ive often wondered the same thing; I made a similar topic a while back.http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=13332
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Re: Cromibility (AG Community)
Just popping in to say Ive also jumped on the Chromebook bandwagon, though my intent from the start was to install Linux; I just wanted an inexpensive laptop with better battery life than the one Im currently using, and built-in bluetooth. I wanted to install
Re: I F**ing Hate Systemd
To allow commercial software into GNU would defeat the whole point of its existance.Why would you take a critical opinion of PB as a personal offense? Just seems odd is all. Personally I dont like most of those proprietary programming/scripting languages like
Re: I F**ing Hate Systemd
A few things from the last post Id like to address.First, regarding the FSF movement, its important to remember that were refering to free as in freedom, not price. Plenty of free software lisences allow commercialization, so long as the source code is available
Re: I F**ing Hate Systemd
A few things from the last post Id like to address.First, regarding the FSF movement, its important to remember that were refering to free as in freedom, not price. Plenty of free software lisences allow commercialization, so long as the source code is available
Re: transfering individual files in iTunes
The copy-paste method doesnt seem to work, and the checkbox lists are only for albums, playlists and genres, possibly artists too. Doesnt really matter now anyway, as Im returning this sorry excuse for a media player tomorrow. Lesson learned: iPod
Re: I F**ing Hate Systemd
Ive had no problems with Systemd, though Ive never run a server and havent needed to mess with it much. From a purely esthetic point of view I kind of like it, since so many components in Linux are written by totally different people who dont collaborate, and you
Re: transfering individual files in iTunes
Turning on automatic sync would sunc my entire library, which is not what I want to do. I simply wish to be able to transfer a song or other media file to the ipod at will, without disturbing anything else.
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Re: The iOS camera in iOS 7: surprised both good and bad
I believe there are some apps that do this after the photo is taken, however I havent tried any of them so cant say anything about their accessibility. Ive actually never gotten VoiceOver to say when a face is in view ever since
Re: sansa clip and accessible mp3 players
I also own a clip zip and love it for what it does, though itd be even better if the interfaces of some or all of the rockbox built-in plugins were voiced as well; the default installation includes a calculator, games, a text editor and some other
Re: Monthly chat October
Im also going to try the Windows technical preview which will be interesting, Im just hoping there wont be anymore automatic opt-in things like the improvement program than there already are in Windows 8, because for some absolutely unfathomable reason I dont like
Re: reinstalling windows 8
The nice thing about Windows 8 is that in most cases once an internet connection is established, it will automatically fetch any needed drivers and install them without fuss. This probably wont work with some older hardware, but you should at least have sound and
Re: Post rock music here
Here are a few, hope you enjoy. Most of this would be considered metal, not rock, but as they say, metal is rock that has
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