I have been building browsers for 30 years now. First Opera and now Vivaldi. My estimate is that more than 1 billion have used one of my browsers or both. Have you?
For those of you with a #Mac#Laptop, do you ever turn yours off, or do you leave it plugged in and running over night? Why?
Do you find that leaving it on and plugged in causes any deterioration with the battery? #MacOS#Computer#Computing#Tech
So, Mac users. What apps for Mac keep you on Mac, or make you miss it when you're on other platforms? Can be accessibility-related or not. And they should work on Intel Macs too. I know, but I've seen like one or two that only work on M-series Macs.
So I know I shouldn't expect more, but I was just really trying hard to get the hang of the new Books app on the Mac. And I just can't. After a chapter of the new Night Angel book, it would stop reading. That's fine, I'd do the read all command and it'd continue. But then it gets to a point where things break, and the first sentence of the paragraph repeats itself, and the chapter isn't even a part of the "book contents" element anymore. I just... I don't even have it in me to try to write out feedback that's detailed enough to be "actionable." Maybe someone with more patience can do that. Anyway I know that Windows doesn't have an EPub reader or books app of its own. I get it. But my goodness, Apple is supposed to be better than this. Thank goodness I have multiple systems. And yes, I know we have Voice Dream Reader or Speech Central on the Mac. But on the iPhone for many, many years, I didn't need any of that. It felt so much better back then. On iOS 5 or 6 when I could read through a whole book with no issues. And I did just that. I was all into Dark Shadows back then, so read a few books in that universe. It was one of my first iTunes purchases, and my iPod Touch read it perfectly.
I think one of my problems is that I try to think about how an operating system and its accessibility, will be in the future. If Apple continues down this path, will my next phone be a poor investment because of the accumulation of bugs? Or if Google keeps going how it's going, will next year's TalkBack version be good enough to use as my daily phone? Or if Microsoft keeps breaking Windows, will I even be able to use the start menu next year?
And honestly, I can't say that I know. I don't know these developers, or the teams around them, or the teams around them, or the company culture. I don't know if Google will suddenly change out the accessibility team manager and have another layoff, and there goes the momentum of the last two years. Honestly at this point I have barely any hope for Windows.
I wish I could just be normal and not have these stupid unneeded thoughts. I mean, I don't know, and honestly the past doesn't help that much because who thought in iOS 5 that we'd have so many VoiceOver bugs, or in TalkBack 8 that in just a few years we could actually use Braille in TalkBack. Ugh.
Anfang des Monats dachte ich mir, gib doch #Manjaro mal wieder eine Chance. Ein Festplatten-Crash hatte mich dazu gezwungen, das #Linux System auf meinem #Mac Mini von 2016 neu aufzusetzen. Anstatt gleich wieder ein pures #Arch Linux zu installieren - diesmal also Manjaro. Schließlich wird…
If you are an #Apple enthusiast and are a #Reddit refuge trying out #Lemmy or #Kbin, I moderate quite a few Apple communities over on #LemmyWorld. Come join in on the convos!
Pls BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse 🙏🏼
Need help with Obsidian on Mac. In mac Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard shortcuts -> App Shortcuts -> All applications, I have paste mapped to ctrl-V (because I just can't get used to the command-V or whatever it is). It works for just about all other applications except in Obsidian, it jumps to the literal bottom of the note I'm writing FIRST before pasting text. As long as I'm right at the bottom the paste works, if I'm anywhere else in the doc it mysteriously jumps the cursor right to the end on the first ctrl-V and then subsequently pastes the text. I can't see any hotkey to unmap to fix this. Help! #obsidian#obsidianhelp#mac
I wrote about why #DX12 support and the #GamePortingToolkit is the biggest thing to happen to gaming on the #Mac in more than 30 years for Inverse! I stad by this -- even if it remains a niche/developer centric tool, the community has already proved that this is a big deal. I hope to see this integrated with Steam for Apple silicon Macs in the fall. https://www.inverse.com/tech/mac-directx-12-game-porting-toolkit-pc-games
So, I know Windows is just as fast, but I just was like “meh, I need to read my email; haven’t been able to all morning.” I had CapsLock + D to go to dock. Then I hit M for mail, and Enter (return) to go right to the running instance of the Mail app. Quick and solid. That’s what I like. Of course, one can do the same with Windows, but I’m glad it’s so fast on Mac too.
My partner recently had some water damage to her MacBook (A1425), rendering it completely unresponsive. It turns out her backups were not working either....
I was working with a student on making folders and copying files. NVDA does not let the user know when a file is copied or cut or pasted. The student didn't like that. They wanted some assurance that what they pressed had some kind of effect. Can software please be built with affordances for people who, you know, need a little assurance, a little "Yes, you did it right, it's okay, you didn't break something," in their lives? And this isn't even just about NVDA. In Microsoft Word with JAWS, pressing Control + Alt + 1 makes a heading. JAWS just repeats the key command that was pressed. So in order to see if the heading was even made, or if it was made on the correct text block, a user has to spend a good 3 seconds or so arrowing up and down to read the line. Yes, Insert + Up Arrow does exist to read the current line, no, users don't use it cause that's yet another key command they have to memorize.
Now for the reply guys. Yes, I could install the NVDA Extended whatever addon. Yes, I could switch the NVDA user to JAWS. Or, haha, a Mac. I could switch the JAWS and Word user to a Mac too. Or Markdown. Or HTML. Or AsciiDoc. Or whatever y'all come up with to work around this. But the fact is that computers, in their core tasks, are still seemingly, for blind people at least, made for people that can grit their teeth, hold their breath, and run before they fully master walking. And I hate that. I hate that the only people that get good at computers are the ones that are already predisposed, either from nature or nurture, to be good with tech. It's no wonder that more and more blind people are doing their computing from their phone. And maybe it's just that I'm that bad at my job. Please feel free to stab me with that until... Anyway life sucks and then we die.
CBI Image of the Day. It is 1984 & the Apple MacIntosh quickly stood out for its relative, small form factor, GUI, and ease of use--garnering substantial adoption in businesses, like this NYC office, schools, and homes.
The cityscape and office setting stand in contrast to the computer lib myth (more than a little irony to revolution myths presented in ultra-expensive Superbowl ads)
Where should I store my vault on my #Mac? I feel so lost! For years × ∞ I've put everything in Dropbox or iCloud, but that, I hear, is a recipe for sync troubles.
looks at computer as if for the first time, confused expression on previously confident face *
Why is my Documents folder greyed out? Where am I? Who am I ?? Help me, obi-@obsidianmd, you're my only hope!
Help needed: Retrieve files from dead 2012 MacBook Pro [solved/help received]
My partner recently had some water damage to her MacBook (A1425), rendering it completely unresponsive. It turns out her backups were not working either....