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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I am once again setting up for a customer a new PC that didn't come with a manual, required assembly with no assembly instructions, & started talking during the out-of-box experience (OOBE). There was a speaker icon, but clicking on it did nothing but make the icon's "click me" border disappear.

I get that computers need to talk for blind & low-vision users, but come on, not at the expense of making your new users deaf as well!

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Whose idea was it to make AIO PCs without sound controls **AND** default the speaker volume to "make rock star Hotblack Desiato file a noise complaint"!?

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Juice that toots other Juice

Bedtime Juice

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Jess👾
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Georgiana Brummell

As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.

#appreciation #accessibility #altbot #alttext #blind #blindness #fediverse #gratitude #images #inclusivity #peoplewhocare #pictures #technology

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The Mad Codger

It's that time of year. Make sure you're ready.

#halloween #witches

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

there's something about "computers built by companies who wanted to use up their inventory of VCR chassis" that really appeals to me

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Accessibility Awareness

The No Mouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls?

nomouse.org/

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

sometime after steve jobs killed flash computing as a whole lost all its whimsy

when is the last time you've seen a funny screensaver

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Reminder: In the multiple contests where a team representing the USA faced a team representing another country, the other country's team won each of them 4 games to 2.

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Foxes in Love

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/
Copyright: foxesinlove.net

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Today in "Don't get your medical advice from slick radio ads, let alone sex advice" 

NuMale ran radio ads in seemingly every commercial break on every station for years. Think Viagra but clinics instead of pills.

2024-11-27, AP, "New Mexico man awarded $412 million medical malpractice payout for botched injections": apnews.com/article/medical-mal

2025-10-23, Albuquerque Journal via Yahoo (Warning: use adblock), "New Mexico man awarded $96 million under bankruptcy settlement": yahoo.com/news/articles/mexico

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Recalcitrant Fashionista

Presented without comment.

#Pokemon #CheechAndChong #fashion

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elle

lol honey bad news the website's down so the bed cooked the children

dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-

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Forklift Certified Bastard 🧄

I continue to be flabbergasted by just how boring billionaires are with their money.

Like... where's the paying your favorite band to record a new album entirely without commercial pressure? Commissioning some artist to make a massive mural of a bee/cheeseburger creature?

Where's the contract to fill an entire swimming pool with cream and let everyone in the city jump in?

Where's the "giving 100 homeless people houses just to see them smile friday"?

You have enough money to explode god, but you'll buy things that make more money, yachts you barely use and houses that are much too big for anyone to sensibly live in.

How fucking empty a person do you have to be for that?

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AI6YR Ben

ICE, Shooting, Los Angeles 

Are you kidding me?

CNN: "..Investigators believe gunfire erupted after an ICE officer confronted the suspect’s vehicle and smashed a window with their service weapon, the source said. While attempting to grab the suspect, authorities believe the agent’s weapon discharged, striking both the suspect and a deputy US marshal. ..."

lite.cnn.com/2025/10/21/us/los

#agunisnotahammer

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

society if drawing programs allowed you to undo strokes, create a new layer and then redo those strokes

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Persephone

lewd, tech posting, chastity 

Being unable to unlock your chastity cage because us-east-1 is down

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Authoritarian Left Twix

Many such cases

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For the first time in 32 years, this year's will be an actual international series.

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