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bgtlover

@linuxrocks.online

I am a fully blind programming enthusiast, I begun my programming career with bgt, a scripting language.
Now, I know #c, #c#, #rust, #python and probably others, always looking forward to learning new things.
I'm passionate about #linux, #foss, #accessibility, #screenreaders, #technology, also I'm full on with the idea of the #fediverse.
I'm one of the founders of #odilia screenreader, you can find more details in my profile metadata
Also, you can hit me up on #matrix if you want.

bgtlover 14 points 3 years ago

@woelkchen @Bilu47 I recommend that thing would be under the gpl, but to each their own

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bgtlover 6 points 3 years ago path: 0 3612497 3612577, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 8
bgtlover 6 points 3 years ago

@ObviouslyNotBanana @grue it's much better now than when people were using jack incantations and trying to figure a whole host of stuff out, which in most cases was hardware specific and very esoteric, needless to speak of people chasing lowlatency setups, in so many weird directions that afew people actually came up with kernel patches to apparently make the whole thing have 0 xruns. Yeah, absolutely weird, better that this doesn't happen anymore hopefully

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bgtlover 5 points 3 years ago

@AudraTran @linux_gaming what was that last thing? an image? if so, can you put alt text on it, I dk what it's supposed to mean. Also, it does work for me, as in, I was able to follow the group and post some comments on specific threads, though unfortunately they appear on the other side with no username, at least none I can see, maybe there's an avatar but it's not labeled

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bgtlover 5 points 3 years ago path: 0 3355911, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
bgtlover 4 points 3 years ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social lol, that's a pretty interesting mistake to make, I want to do it some time! Also, I'm reading stuff about the visual issues of plasma 6, especially under wayland. However, what about accessibility? would plasma 6 become more accessible? would the orca not reading windows under wayland thing be fixed? what about the issue where you have to click the desktop with the mouse first, before you can read it with screenreaders?

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bgtlover 3 points 3 years ago

@Chee_Koala @SleepyWheel ubuntu studio is not a DAW, it's a music producer focused ubuntu flavour. If you want an open DAW, did you try zrythm?

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bgtlover 3 points 3 years ago

@monolalia @raspberriesareyummy hello, this is a post from mastodon. If this works, it seemns federation here is working as expected, very nice indeed.

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bgtlover 3 points 3 years ago

@n3cr0 ahh, I guess that's more or less normal hrtf, which any respectable audiogame can replicate

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bgtlover 3 points 3 years ago

Personally, I wouldn't recommend immutable distros, as I think they limit our freedoms far too much, not that the way the general stack is going doesn't do that already. Not debating that here, since it's a hot and controversial topic currently, at least in the segment of the linux using population that cares about this stuff and which picked linux for that. Imo, if we do this, we'll basically make of the OS one block, from bootloader, to kernel, to initramfs, to display manager and finally desktop, especially since I'm hearing whispers of attempts at removing the tty kernel rendering being done, which will force us into using a specific compositor, desktop and so on, so we'll be exactly like windows or mac or android, so we lost everything, and then what's the point of linux?
If you want to use immutable distros anyway, I don't recommend silverblue for gaming, but I do recommend you give ublue linux a try, it has many drivers included, even some udev rules.

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bgtlover 3 points 3 years ago

that's possible, ntfs and linux are known to not work very well, as you probably have seen in this thread.

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bgtlover 2 points 3 years ago

interesting that no commenter name is shown on my previous comment, like it is for native lemi ones, not even an avatar, not one that can be read with the screenreader anyway, so federation is still a bit flaky, perhaps worth filing some UX related issues over it? hmm, what do you think? Even better imo, would be for this platform to implement the reddit api specification, so that existing clients can be used for it, as it'd be a petty for all that good and perfectly functional software to go to waist, lots of people pored their precious time into making the experience work enough that everyone has it as nice as possible, even though the original one is trash, despite the stupid and nonsensical restrictions and rate limiting reddit did.

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bgtlover 2 points 3 years ago

bottle works pretty much all the time. I know some people really do hate flatpak, but personally I hate steam more, so I'm doing anything I can to not depend on it, especially since both the launcher and the client itself are totally inaccessible to orca, the linux screenreader. The best way valve can remediate that, if they care which is a big if at this point, well, fairly easily, just update the chromium embedding to its latest version, or at least 4 versions ahead, then the web ui, the part the embedding is responsible for, will be as accessible to linux screenreaders as it currently is to windows ones. Not perfectly usable, but not a black screen either, that'd be a huge step forward, with little to no intervention from valve themselves.

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bgtlover 2 points 3 years ago

ok, I think I just triggered a bug by inserting that markdown link, a very severe one at that lol.
in any case, the link to the UBlue linux distribution is this:
https://ublue.it/
hopefully it comes out correctly this time

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bgtlover 2 points 3 years ago

@ShaunaTheDead @BloodSlut what do you mean? you can use different wine prefixes for different applications, so I don't quite get it. Also, outside bottles, I'm not sure you can run wine in flatpak

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bgtlover 2 points 3 years ago

@ShaunaTheDead @BloodSlut yeah, I don't think that the system wide dotnet will work under wine with the windows dependencies programs want, but yeah, if it does that'll be awesome

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bgtlover 2 points 3 years ago

@ShaunaTheDead @BloodSlut of course it matters. Environment variables get passed to wine, after which other processes inherit them, simply because they are children of wine. Because wine makes them available to windows calls too, well, you get them in wine processes.

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bgtlover 2 points 3 years ago

@BloodSlut @ShaunaTheDead hohoho, a good head start! I had to clear some environment variables from time to time as well, especially when it comes to wine stuff misinterpreting some vars I thought are only for some specific programs I use, so it's not the first time such happened to me. Glad it worked for you, also glad you worked out what env var to clear.

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bgtlover 2 points 3 years ago

@falsem @Voytrekk because they always want to be remembered in history for something good, and they're desperately trying to make something that will eventually, through no try of their own, end up both *good* and ethical. Also, they want people to use their stuff more, so that they can eventually make it proprietary or something.

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bgtlover 2 points 3 years ago

@MyFairJulia wait, you can run games from ntfs drives with linux? what ntfs driver is recommended for that? is ntfs3g broken? I'm asking because each time I try to do something like that, I do get permission issues, as you say. Worse, each time windows would make a file, the linux side would come up with a permission error when trying to access it. That's why, I don't use ntfs stuff anymore at all

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thanks for using Leebra!

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