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MostlyBlindGamer

@ MostlyBlindGamer @rblind.com

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Opinions are my own. Profile picture description: Black on white pictogram with a D20 showing 20 for a head and a game controller for a body and arms, holding a white cane.

  • James Hoffmann - The Truly Absurd Secrets of An Incredible Americano

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  • Interesting. Academic, like the rest of the video, but definitely interesting!

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    Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • I’ve been playing Disco Elysium for a few months, a few hours here and there on weekends.

    It’s so interesting. I don’t usually play games that are so clearly based on tabletop RPGs.

    There are obvious rolls, but also lots of passive rolls that happen behind the proverbial GM screen you might not notice if you’re not used to TTRPGs.

    There are also clever ways to “no, but” after failed rolls. Situations where a game master would just want to railroad the players into success, for the benefit of the narrative. Having been in that position, I respect the way this is pulled off.

    I also enjoy the options for doing completely unhinged things. Obviously counterproductive things that may bring up a “you can certainly try” or a “sure, why not?” at the table.

    In terms of accessibility the interface text gets pretty big, the highlighting for points of interests isn’t bad at all and the voiceover for speech is very nice, even if a lot of text ends up not being read.

    This is essentially a point and click game, so I ended up having to buy a vertical mouse for it.

    Overall, it’s been a great experience. I’m into it.

  • Hey @ACBNational @nationsblind @Unitedblindleaders hope you guys are keeping tabs on these age verification moves by various platforms locking out #blind and #disabled users, #Discord is about to

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  • Relevant announcement from Discord.

    This is going to be a bad time, because both making a video of your face and photographing your ID are barriers.

    Living in the land of fancy electronic IDs for everybody, I didn’t even consider the drivers license issue. Not fun.

  • How is everyone doing this evening? I'm sitting in bed drinking my medical food shake, listening to music, with a few #IncrementalGames idling, and maybe doing a bit of #Python practice on

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  • I have shakes for when I don’t have the time or spoons for making food. Sometimes I throw some peanut butter or jam in there for flavor variety. That might work for you.

  • WhatsApp, Signal, untraceable security risk

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  • It’s also worth considering the Signal threat model: a contact you communicate with is not considered an adversary. You can choose not to accept an initial message request.

  • The Hoop - accessible pour over coffee brewer - James Hoffman (YouTube)

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  • Totally understandable. The French press can be a pretty accessible brewer too. If I want a second coffee, I like to take another break to make it. I’m very process oriented though.

  • The Hoop - accessible pour over coffee brewer - James Hoffman (YouTube)

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  • At the risk of buying two more brewers instead of just one, what’s this coffee after water method? Isn’t that more of as immersion brew?

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    The Hoop - accessible pour over coffee brewer - James Hoffman (YouTube)

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    The Hoop - accessible pour over coffee brewer - James Hoffman (YouTube)

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    Clicks keyboard for iPhone for accessibility?

  • I Was Scammed Out of $130,000 — And Google Helped It Happen

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  • My bank is continuously surprised that I understand this. It’s probably a bad sign.

  • Vibe coding is great for MVP's

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  • The thing about low code is the successful products in that field have their blocks built by experienced teams. I’ve heard of setting up low code apps via LLMs and that almost makes sense. They can only do as much damage as a bad project manager cosplaying a solution engineer, scrapping the whole exercise isn’t too bad, and they can be a nice demo for the client.

  • feat: Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md by numinit · Pull Request #15 · JiaT75/STest

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  • I would have thought describing images you post to spaces for blind people would be common sense, but do find my self enforcing rules on that all the time. Rules that are front and center. A real code of conduct formalizes rules, allows for consistent enforcement, and informs minority populations of the protections they may expect. If you don’t need that, I’m happy for you, but you may want to explore the nature of that privilege. Whether or not that’s necessary in the context of FOSS projects depends on multiple factors. It’s certainly not necessarily if you want to be a benevolent dictator for life.

  • The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

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  • And you can do a lot of that with good IDEs.

  • Thoughts on the Revolution Identity came as a backup to the Ambutech Slimline

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  • That makes sense. Like I said, I value the convenience and space saving nature of a folding cane, but I’m only in this situation at all because the cord broke.

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  • That would theoretically help, but do you suppose the people who make them use floppies would be magnanimously generous enough to offer two drives?

  • Thoughts on the Revolution Identity came as a backup to the Ambutech Slimline

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  • I’m not in the US, but I’d go for that if I could. That’s the rigid cane, right? I like the flexibility of folding canes, but the super light weight would also be great.

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    Thoughts on the Revolution Identity came as a backup to the Ambutech Slimline

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  • Right, here’s my rough process:

    1. Content in question
    2. Adjacent content
    3. Profile
    4. Recent history on subreddit
    5. Mod logs, notes, discussions
    6. Recent history elsewhere
    7. Check other websites and tools that already provide summaries on Reddit users
    8. Back to 3 with authors of adjacent content

    Along the line, discuss with other mods in real time, off platform because Reddit is still not properly accessible.

    Anywhere along the way I may feel confident to make a call and skip the rest.

    And I only deal with a 30k sub…

    That said, Reddit’s already filtering things for likely spam that just aren’t. I don’t have huge confidence in them and I don’t have any confidence in LLMs for this.

  • Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)

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  • I basically played good guy, reloaded a save to try a couple of alternatives near the end (including turning bad) then played full bad guy on New Game + which, let me tell you, was a wild ride, still reloading towards the end for a few more options.

    All in all, something like 6 or 7 different endings. I love that the bad guy route doesn’t eliminate some sections but gives you alternative challenges instead.

  • The perfect wrist rest / tenting setup

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  • Nice! Make sure you get the wrist massage purr system.

  • Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)

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  • It’s so good! The story cop-out also adds to replayability. I played it twice over with minor reloads for about 4 or 5 different endings.

  • Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)

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  • In general, yes, but like the original list, the name of the game is the spoiler. I’ll add some more info though.

  • Photography @lemmy.ml
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    Discussion

    Does nostalgic editing rob us of the documentary aspect of street photography?

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    Inventing Japanese Braille: Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the significance of inventing Japanese Braille

    www.historyworkshop.org.uk /disability-history/inventing-japanese-braille/
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    Self-disclosing blindness when getting a ride share?

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    RBlind technical issue under investigation

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    Regularly irregular vibe check - how’s everybody doing?

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    Announcing RBlind custom dark and light themes for Lemmy

  • macOS @lemmy.world
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    Support

    [Solved] M3 has swap disabled out of the box

  • Coffee @lemmy.world
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    Help - my friend has 18g of very expensive coffee and asked me to brew it

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    RBlind.com hosting issues

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    PSA: even when you’re happy with your AT setup, keep learning and trying new settings

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    Sighted people, what’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned about the blind community?

  • Coffee @lemmy.world
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    Supermarket coffee marketing is getting… intense

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    I want to switch to Linux for gaming, but I need an accessible desktop environment

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    Positivity check - share your recent successes

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    Playing Prey (2017) - BioShock vibes for days!

  • Photography @lemmy.ml
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    Help

    Tips for sea life photos at aquariums?