TheQuinbox

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space

Cybersecurity student by day, programmer nerd who yells at computers to do things by night. Lover of cats, books, tea, synthesizers, and programming. I'm always either hacking on something, reading, or petting a cat. Come say hi!

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FluidEscence, to random

Moral of the story, don't buy anything google if you want it to actually remain alive. LOL!

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence points at Pixel 7, one of my longest-lived phones

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Oh, of course it is. I'm still pissed about Google Podcasts. But their hardware side has been spot-on for me.

TheQuinbox, to random

Computers are cool. I can download a random installer of a program I'm curious about, grep it for "SetupVersionData" to determine if it's InnoSetup, extract it with innounp, and boom, you have a portable version you can browse around. As long as you know what to look for, there's almost nothing that's impossible.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Skill issue.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence And the way you work around it is: About Windows dialog Microsoft Windows
Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.3803)
© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The Windows 10 Home operating system and its user interface are protected by trademark and other pending or existing intellectual property rights in the United States and other countries/regions.
Microsoft Software License Terms
Quin
org name

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Sure, unless you block feature updates, like I did.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence In like a year and a half. Don't care at the moment, when it happens I'll get around to worrying about it :D

TheQuinbox, to random

My laptop's sound driver, among many others, has this absolutely infuriating behavior where it puts the sound card to sleep after a particular amount of silence (mine's seemingly after 5 seconds), causing a screen reader user to miss the beginning of speech, an audio file, a notification, or anything else they may be trying to listen to. To solve this, I wrote this little program. Simply run it, and it'll start piping silent audio through your default sound card, which has fixed it on every machine I've tried. It should also respect device changes (e.g. unplugging headphones). To close it, simply click on the tray icon. It doesn't get much simpler than that. https://quinbox.xyz/files/SleepSoundly.zip

TheQuinbox,

@darrell73 @KaraLG84 I think you're right, I just learned about this. That's pretty neat.

TheQuinbox,

@spaciath It's so funny how the world works, I literally wrote this because I woke up this morning with loads of productive energy that I didn't have to waste on school, and it annoyed me enough to finally figure it out :D glad to help!

TheQuinbox,

@Mendi_Tech I'm told that NVDA will also automatically fix it in 2024.2, but I upgrade my NVDA about once a decade, so I think I'll keep it around hahaha.

TheQuinbox,

@x0 Fun fact, this is exactly what this does actually. Just used ffmpeg to generate me 1 second of 16-bit wav with a super fucking low amplitude.

TheQuinbox, to random

My dad's out of town at the moment on a business trip, and he sent me a checklist of things I need to do to help my mom with after her surgery. He sent it as an Apple Notes link. SO to access it from my Pixel, I had to:

  1. Click the link and try to sign into my Apple ID.
  2. Get a verification code, except I have no Apple devices around at the second and the text option had to be clicked like 5 times before it worked.
  3. Verify I have... access to be invited to the note, whatever that means. SO they had to text me a link, and I had to click it.
  4. After clicking it, I had to, you fucking guessed it, sign in again, including the same problem with sending a code, even though I hit trust this browser the first time.
  5. Dismiss the 15 modals that popped up across the two tabs, and try to access the note. It doesn't work.
  6. Close the entire browser and click the link again.
  7. Finally scroll down to the notes contents, and realize that Apple really doesn't care about you, because all you can read is the first line!
    Seriously, fuck, you! It feels like this entire world is now just broken, inaccessible garbage everywhere you look.
FluidEscence, to random

I've been seeing an alarming amount of posts without alt text lately on here. What gives?

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Make sure they're not marked as sensitive, that got me for months. Apparently you have to expand the content warning and the sensitive media buttons to see it, and Enafore doesn't do it automagically.

FluidEscence, to random

Another Logic update, another disappointment. Still no flac support. Cmon guys. You support flac in the OS. It's not hard, really.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence How good is it?

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Daaamn!

TheQuinbox, to random

selling some stuff, DM for details if you want a particular product:
An echo dot third generation ($20.00).
Google Nest Hub First generation ($50.00).
An iPad Mini 1 ($100.00).
A Samsun Meteor USB microphone ($30).
Prices aren't set, if you're being reasonable we can talk. More to come soon.

sparksexist, to random

good things are happening today!
logic 11 day, and the day I get my new pc! what fun. now to download everything in existence

TheQuinbox,

@sparksexist oooh, what's your new rig?

TheQuinbox, to random

Just saw this YouTube video title: "Best OS for programming? Mac vs Windows vs Linux debate settled".
Oh, to be a sighted person and to be able to choose an OS from a silly programming YouTuber talking about it as opposed to having to compare and contrast screen readers, "oh orca is garbage, oh Mac VO is garbage too, okay, guess it's Windows. Oh, but Windows has ads in the start menu! But, at least my screen reader works..."

bermudianbrit, to random

NVDA folks: Is there a way to drag sliders which register as sliders but don't respond to keyboard commands?

TheQuinbox,

@bermudianbrit Potentially, although I have never seen a slider do this. Got an example?

purrsnikitty, to random

There were once high hopes of productivity and defying procrastination brain.

And then my mom brought home an 8-week old kitten.
Goodbye hopes, hello adorable distraction. 🩵

TheQuinbox,

@purrsnikitty BAAAAAAAABY!

TheQuinbox, to random

Just got home from my last ever high school class. FREE AT LAST!!!

TheQuinbox,

@alexhall The plan is to get a cybersecurity degree from a community college here, and also maybe start working. All options are still on the table at this point really, Salesforce Admin, IT at my school, turn my talking calculator into a teeny non-profit, etc. So many projects... oh my goodness.

talon, to random
@talon@dragonscave.space avatar

FM synth go womp womp

TheQuinbox,

@talon You really should. I like this one.

TheQuinbox, to random

It just now hit me that tomorrow is my last actual day of high school. I've got some other things I need to do, namely on Friday and Tuesday, but what... what the fuck?

TheQuinbox,

@jscholes A 2-year cybersecurity degree from a community college near here. I spent 15 minutes talking to the head of accessibility about different Linux distros and terminal screen readers during my intake, so I'm very optimistic.

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