On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Liam Proven wrote:> Unfortunately a lot of people are very
technologically conservative.
Once they find something they like, they will stay with it at all
costs. Like Karen here: she likes DOS, she likes her hardware screen
reader, and she wants the world to come to her and interoperate with
her obsolete tech. Anything else is interpreted as abuse.
Indeed?
Lima,
In 1992 i experienced a vascular stroke like accident During an eye
surgery due to an over exposure and allergic reaction anesthetic
damaging
parts of my brain which manage verbal processing.
The science to even manage the situation, collectively known as neural
plasticity
did not even exist for decades.
I have scans of my brain literary tracking it seeking functional nerves,
and when exposed to verbal information within certain frequency ranges
the results are quite catastrophic.
There is a
book called the brain's way of healing.
Some of the doctors referenced working here in Toronto, and using the part
of my brain that manages sound like music, actually developed a program
specifically to work with my problem, supported by major medical research
institutions like New York University, who captured my brain at first, and Jon's Hopkins.
We made some progress, but I must use a computer every day, my brain's
function fluctuates, with even some ranges of cordless phone, mobile
devices, and yes sir, synthesized speech still a profound physical risk.
leading to the epileptic like reactions I spoke of, for my body alone, as I
accommodate my *individual* disability experiences.
sShe would be much better off if she were willing to experiment and
try
other things, but she will not accept that.
Liam,
in 2017 I made an appointment with an apple genius in Toronto to sit down
and test the frequency ranges of various apple voices in the IOS
environment.
I passed out in the store..twice.
Last year, we tried again, fortunately I only started throwing up, and
in march 2021, it was Google's talkback system, causing my speech to slur
and for me to be dizzy for several days, still playing for that
experiment, since I cannot see my team during the pandemic.
Oh and that ZTE phone claims to use Linux as its operating system too.
How do you know what I am willing to experiment with? when did we meet?
What copies of my scans, tests, results have you personally reviewed?
This is a public list liam, and you are engaging in slander.
How dare you claim to know what I have fought to do for my body, how much
I have sought to expand my choices.
There is no place to test with the Linux environment, something I have
investigated regularly for almost 20 years.
Jim,
This post will be edited to remove Liam's slander or I will investigate
what may be done legally.
The internet is increasingly a public place.
I am a media and music professional, and I will not have my reputation
tarnished by someone who thinks his personal use of machines makes him an
expert on the lives of millions.
Liam may claim he did not know, but felt he could slander me anyway.
My body and my brain, and my choices to use computers as I can right now,
with the issues I have is none of his business.
Via his slander though he has made it necessary for me to talk of personal
medical concerns on a public list.
Something no human being should have to endure.
What Liam illustrates perfectly is just why so much of Linux remains
challenging for many.
The attitude of those like him who believe their experience projects to
everyone else, and that everyone sharing a label are interchangeable.
I am profoundly thankful to the apple techs doctors, and scientists
who
believe I deserve technology that works for me, as I am, not as Liam
dictionary dictates.
best,
Karen lewellen
> This attitude is what has kept Microsoft immensely
profitable. >
A similar one is what has kept Linux as the most successful server OS
in the world. It is just a modernised version of a quick and dirty
hack of an OS from the 1960s, but it's capable and it's free. "Good
enough" is the enemy of better.
There are hundreds of other operating systems out there. I listed 25
non-Linux FOSS OSes in this piece, and yes, FreeDOS was included:
https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/11/01/25_alternative_pc_operating_systems/
There are dozens that are better in various ways than Unix and Linux.
??? Minix 3 is a better FOSS Unix than Linux: a true microkernel which
can cope with parts of itself failing without crashing the computer.
??? Plan 9 is a better UNIX than Unix. Everything really *is* a file and
the network is the computer.
??? Inferno is a better Plan 9 than Plan 9: the network is your
computer, with full processor and OS-independence.
??? Plan 9's UI is based on Oberon: an entire mouse-driven OS in 10,000
lines of rigorous, type-safe code, *including* the compiler and IDE.
??? A2 is the modern descendant of Oberon: real-time capable, a full
GUI, multiprocessor-aware, internet- and Web-capable.
But almost everyone is too invested in the way they know and like to
be willing to start over.
So we are trapped, the monkey with its hand stuck in a coconut shell
full of rice, even though it can see the grinning hunter coming to
kill and eat it.
We are facing catastrophic climate change that will kill most of
humanity and most species of life on Earth, this century. To find any
solutions, we need better computers that can help us to think better
and work out better ways to live, better cleaner technologies, better
systems of employment and housing and everything else.
But we can't let go of the single lousy handful of rice that we are
clutching. We can't let go of our broken political and economic and
military-industrial systems. We can't even let go of our broken 1960s
and 1970s computer operating systems.
And every day, the hunter gets closer and his smile gets bigger.
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