James Dean (has moved)

Primary account is now James Dean (npub1h9n…xq28) This is now my backup account. Just a blind gay guy that mostly posts about tech things with occasional personal stuff sprinkled in. I'm usually willing to help if I can. I sometimes struggle to consistently reach out to other people so trying to change that moving forward.

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2025-11-15 15:37:37 GMT

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I like Fedora, but chose Mate Desktop rather than Gnome for, supposedly, better Accessibility. Very new to Linux land so I could be mis-informed.

2025-10-15 14:31:17 GMT

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I'm sorry that you hold that view, because it is very untrue. He has said publicly that he suffered serious and prolonged sexual abuse during his school days. You never know what someone has gone through and an opinion may or may not reflect that, that's a big not in this case. The issue is that while the use of such words and phrases don't bother a lot of us, that is because we've become desensitized to these phrases that do actually perpetuate the way people react to us. Words do matter and we don't get to pick and choose when. The issue with people that die on this hill like Jonathan is that some of them (I think Jonathan knows better) seem to think that this is the only approach to helping solve the unemployment issue and the way we're viewed in general. That's part of it but a small part. What we really need to do is have some way to introduce ourselves and our skills to major companies, but liability concerns would shoot that down quickly! That would help both with unemployment as well as the general view of us because we would get more exposure over time.

2025-04-06 17:08:28 GMT

Apparently Netflix really misses me! It says it's been 302 days...can I make it a whole year before I subscribe again? LOL! Could be...

2024-03-29 05:46:34 GMT

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Yeah, I'm not even sure if Mr. Blazie realizes what he's done for us. Normally Linux is hard to get working if you don't know how to use it to begin with as well as if you also need a Screen Reader and working sound, particularly the working sound part. With a BT Speak Pro, I could potentially learn Linux and set it up myself on, say, my desktop later even if I had to fiddle with sound. It's kind of disappointing that a $400 difference is software-based, no hardware differences between the two models, but apparently a lot had to be done to get the Desktop version of Linux to work on it. Given the first part of this, looks like that would be a correct statement, so guess I'll just save up a bit.

2024-03-28 21:32:36 GMT

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It's all good, at least everything's getting fixed.

2024-03-28 21:28:01 GMT

Oh yeah! Another crown approved! Gooooo Medicare! This will be my sixth! Have one more after this one. Ooooof! Take care of your teeth, those of you in your early 20's! I didn't and now even though I'm not having to pay for it, I'm sure having to endure lots of pain and discomfort in my mid 30's!

2024-03-28 15:56:57 GMT

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She's trying to explain to you how a business *has* to operate to keep functioning at the end of the day and you shoot that all the way up to...She doesn't care about human decency? Just...Wow. While I was more idealistic at your age, I'm glad I could at least understand that there is a seperation between business and personal relationships for good reasons. This is what she's trying to show you. You're saying a business should act the same way as most of us would expect a personal friend to and that's just never how that's going to work. She wasn't personally attacking you at all, but she could absolutely take you saying that she doesn't care about human decency as an attack. She's already figured out what you're doing, though, so I'm sure she's not but the point is, really think about how you handle yourself in future. We're all just trying to school you in our own ways.

2024-03-28 01:23:02 GMT

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The problem is that they really shot themselves in the foot by saying that those of us who paid wouldn't ever have to pay again. If I used it more, I would totally pay the $5.95 a month, but since I don't use it often, I just don't have to worry about it until I want it. Yes, API access for developers usually isn't free, which is why you have to pay for an Apple Developer account, for instance.