NoConfidence_2192
I am a partially sighted blind person. My cane helps me move through and explore the physical world while screen readers and other assistive tech help me do the same with all things cyber. I also tend to have very little confidence that the Powers That Be really know what is best for me.
Good luck
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Cold beer or glass of wine and music…sometimes listening or, when really stressed, playing piano or guitar while singing, all badly I must admit…and the singing usually requires more than one adult beverage.
Music is really a part of everything in my life really. I use it to:
- Wake up
- Get energized
- Relax
- Express my mood
- Concentrate
- Distract myself
- Fall asleep
If I am not playing it I am listening to it. If I am not listening to it it’s playing in my head
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a way to directly transfer files between laptops and PCs using regular USB cables?English
31·3 years agoYou probably can
Do they both have Thunderbolt ports? Windows, Mac, or Linux? Wired or wireless networking?
If they both have thunderbolt 3/4 and you have a cable you can connect both to the cable and use Thunderbolt networking. MSI has a pretty good how to
Otherwise:
- Transfer over network (buy usb ethernet adapter if necessary $10-15 on amazon)
- Buy USB transfer cable and use it to transfer
- Remove HD from old laptop, buy compatible external HD enclosure, put it in external HD enclosure and connect it to new laptop
- Copy files from old laptop to existing external drive, then connect external drive to new laptop
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it possible to create a computer processor whose bare metal/assembly language is closer to higher level languages?English
5·3 years agoPhotonic tensor CPUs and analogue iterative machines show a lot of promise. However I think human assisted AI or even AI alone are more likely to take over Assembly level programming before photonic computing has that much of an impact
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Ask Science@lemmy.world•Is it possible to imagine a universe with a different set of laws of physics?English
41·3 years agoYes.
We are all very likely doing it now with most of what we believe to be the laws of physics. While they may seem to reasonably explain the phenomena we have been able to observe that represents such an infinitesimal fraction of the universe that the margin for error is astronomical.
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Reddit@lemmy.world•Reddit slowly became filled with hateEnglish
17·3 years agowe are not redditors anymore, we don’t belong there
This is something that became very clear to me when I made the mistake of going back for a visit yesterday and found a lot of that “fear, derision, doubt, apathy” in one of the last places I expected to find it. It was heartbreaking but did make it clear that we (or, at least, I) really do not belong there anymore.
It is time to help build something new.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is 22 too old to start studying computer science?English
5·3 years agoIs 22 too old to start…
Nope.
Am a heck of a lot older…and have gone blind. I’m still learning things all the time. If it is firing your curiosity it is worth giving a shot. By all means go for it!
…and thank you for the post. You have convinced me to try something new myself. Enjoy!

Will give this a look. See how hard it is to install and use when using a screen reader. Really like that there’s no telemetry