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• Post #3965632

  The two untested mPowers have arrived. Both are in decent physical condition, I'm guessing they came from a school system since there's names in Braille on the bottom of them. One boots but says that the Braille display isn't working, which in fairness it isn't, the other one shows no signs of life. Neither came with the power supplies or case, but I have an OEM HumanWare brick. Both are also the plastic routing key version.

• Post #3965631

  Update: both units work, second one didn't power on at first for some reason but its working, space bar is a little wobbly but otherwise it's working, including Braille. This one is running Keysoft version 8.1 build 23, and was used until at least 2014. Gonna try fixing the second one as well

• Post #3965630

  Okay, so I was able to get the MPower on the internet, not with Ethernet or Wi-Fi cards or the modem, but through ActiveSync connected to my Gateway Solo running Windows 2000. Most websites didn't work since it runs Internet Explorer for PocketPC, but I was able to control my DASDEC-II over the local network and issue an alert as well as view alert logs and listen to audio.

• Post #3965629

  Yes BrailleNote mPower, your battery has been charging for 1904 weeks, 4 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes, with charging having begun tomorrow at 2:53 AM. Ahh the joys of changing from New Zealand Standard Time to Eastern Daylight Time.

• Post #3965628

  So the MPower's battery isn't completely fucked! I'm having it calobrate the gauge, so I'm hearing KeyNote Gold saying "I'm discharging bhe battery before doing a complete charge" on loop. la de da. Happy rainy Saturday!

• Post #3965627

  I just realized, within a couple months my "collection" of Braille devices ballooned. Before it was the Mantis and BrailleSense 6, but I've also since added a Monarch, HumanWare NLS E-Reader and two BrailleNote MPowers. i might have a slight issue

• Post #3965626

  Ended up having a brainfart and created an amalgomation of Norman Lear and Bill Lear, a guy who created the Learjet, 8-track tape, got bored and redefined television comedies in the 70s.

• Post #3965625

  Holy mother of God how do I have 39 windows on my computer open?

• Post #3965624

  The MPower is not happy with me and the MIDIs I want to play.

• Post #3965623

  For anybody wondering what Rush E sounds like on a BrailleNote MPower... it's pretty narley and actually hangs (and presumably crashes) at the end of the song

• Post #3897826

  I've got this Windows 7 VM I use for testing sketchy shit and this happened. I think the non-genuine copy of Windows os the least of my problems. Cracked copy of Jaws 17 I found somewhere on the internet that I wouldn't trust anywhere had Acapella Heather with it but for numbers it switches to a foreign language voice. When the installer runs batch scripts in Russian you know its good.

• Post #3821450

  Someone in a Discord server I'm in shared the famous "Everybody in McKinney is dead" weather blooper from WFAA-TV in the DFW metroplex, but nothing holds a candle to this classic blooper from Fox-10 in Phoenix. The meteorologist here, Cory McCloskey, was apparently a stage/improv actor which explains how he's so quick on his feet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXuc7SAyk2s

• Post #3611682

  RE: https://dragonscave.space/@AlexSpectrum93/116844780192191067 Yeah crazy to believe it's already been a decade. My office transitioned on 06/23/2016 during a historic flooding event... not the best timing there Charleston. One slight point of correction, the modern voices are from VoiceText, not NeoSpeech. They're very similar, but VoiceText is more distinct in its intunation.

• Post #3552117

  don't ask why I bought a second domain. Don't ask why I don't have any plans for this second domain. And especially, don't ask why that domain is pissbin.com

• Post #2056012

  Okay, I'm too smooth brained to understand the hype surrounding agentic AI like cloudbot and similar. I don't get the need for something like that. Or, at the very least, I don't see a need for it in my life. I don't think I want to know

• Post #2056011

  RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@ignoreallpreviousinstructions/116512442237748244 Nah, more important is cat proofing the toilet paper, they'll shread that shit quicker than you'll ever see. (Trust me, growing up we had over 20 cats at one point)

• Post #2056010

  Was bored at 3:00 AM, decided to feed BREEZE.WAV from the DSP Solutions Digispeech device software to Music Seperator and do a little stereo panning.

• Post #2056009

  Okay, just filled out some more forms for the thing happening at the end of this month, and I'm getting nervous now, just the kind of nervousness that happens with a major life-changing event. I'm starting to have this self doubt, though I think I'm ready

• Post #2056008

  I've rearranged my DASDEC monitors and switched my WXJ84 monitor from an integrated DASDEC tuner with a poor antenna setup to a feed from my ProDesk's SDR which is far cleaner. Stations heard in order here aare WXJ84 (ProDesk SDR), WVAF-FM (DASDEC tuner), ERN/JON (Internet) and ERN/CRTV (Internet.)

• Post #2056007

  I sreepy... way more sreepy than normal. Ended up taking a suto nap earlier today, and I only take naps if I'm exhausted or ill. La de fkin' da!

• Post #2056006

  The existance of the air frier is the strongest evidence of the existance of God I've se: yet.

• Post #2056005

  Gotta love trying to have Balabolka export an entire novels worth of text to a WAV file and something goes wrong. I'm trying a different voice now. Basically downloaded something from Bookshare that I might possibly re-read while on my flights or during downtime at the place I'm going, don't like their TTS option, nor do I really want my Stream3 reading it, so I'm using SAPI voices on my computer. SAPI-5 MongralSoft Mike didn't work, so now I'm try...

• Post #2056004

  Okay turns out Balabolka did correctly export the files, Audacity and WIndows Explorer aren't happy with them, VLC plays the WAV files just fine but WIndows Exploder and Audishitty see a 2+ GB WAV file as being 0 minutes and 0 seconds... la de da!

• Post #2056003

  Okay so apparently the WAV file is out of spec, Winamp wouldn't touch it and I decided to see if Obi could handle it and I got this: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: WAV ’data’ chunk was not found ! at AudioLib.AudioLibPCMFormat.RiffHeaderParse(Stream input, UInt32& dataLength) at Obi.Audio.AudioFormatConverter.ConvertedFile(String filePath, Presentation pres) So I guess it's malformatted.

• Post #2056002

  Issue was indeed the length, exporting it as two medium-length files worked.

• Post #1507269

  Also... one fun thing I've noticed on two different systems now, the Debian GNU/Linux installer hates the APH/HumanWare Mantis Q40. Nothing else has given me issues, but for some reason the Debian installer refuses to cooperate with it, both on my ProDesk and PowerEdge. It should just show up as a HID keyboard device and a HID Braille device. It's worked with literally everything else I've ever tried, and it's become my diagnostics keyboard I bring from machine to...

• Post #989275

  I believe this to be the only SFW picture of a ballsack on the internet.

• Post #989273

  Only recently did I discover this legendary Craigslist ad from 2019, and decided to TTSify it. Introducing, the 1999 Toyota Corolla!

• Post #982512

  Its crazy how good these speakers and mics sound. Basically, I have at my desk a pair of Audiotechnica AT-2020 condenser microphones I use as my general-purpose microphones, on guessneck arms in the X/Y configuration for stereo. I also have a set of Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 BT speakers at the desk. Despite the mics not facing the speakers (speakers are aimed twoard the rear of the mics) it still captures the sound from the speakers quite well, not that I want that to happen. Condensers hear anything