The Fenrir screen reader has moved. The new repository, where development is continuing, is located at:
https://git.stormux.org/storm/fenrir
There have been some major changes with more to come. One thing that will affect existing users is, there is no longer a fenrir-daemon separate from the main launcher. It now launches in the background using just "fenrir" with the old option to run in the foreground now a flag. So to launch and keep Fenrir in the foreground:
fenrir -fThis means those relying on service files for systemd or runit, you will need to update your service file for the new version. The fenrir-git package available from the AUR is already updated for the new version. If you use a package manager such as yay to install and update fenrir, you may want to remove the existing cached package before upgrading:
rm -rf ~/.cache/yay/fenrir-git
yay -S fenrir-gitThere will be a stable release coming hopefully later this month. Thee has been lots of refactoring and code cleanup over the last couple weeks.
If you are interested in contributing to Fenrir, pull requests are welcome or contact me if you would like to be added directly to the project. Both python coders and documentation writers are needed.
audiogame-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Small bug fix. Hopefully working now for creating the settings.dat file.
Things I never thought I'd say: "Wow! This Happy Meal thing has audio description!!" Um, *WOW*! Yes, we're in our 40s, but we still get the toys in the Happy Meal when we get it for our doggo. @TheZooLady is like, "I can't make sense out of this thing! It's just two cubes." So I find the little QR code thingy and scan it. It takes me to the web page, with a "Let's play button, and my first thought is, "Well, I might be able to make some sense of this if I use magnification and squint real hard." Surprise: There's actually *gasp* accessibility settings! And one of them is audio description! Totally wild! And the buttons are even labelled! I am rather impressed by what I've seen.
***Hashtags***
#Accessibility #HappyMeal #McDonald's #HolidayPetSimulator #AudioDescription #Blind #BigGames
audiogame-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project I think I found a way to enter the user name for Side Parfty score boards.
I can't seem to set my scoreboard name in SideParty with wine. The window takes focus, but apparently the keyboard doesn't enter anything. Pressing enter to get to the next screen works, but since I don't have a name set, no score posting for me. I went to see if I could set it in the file by hand, but it is encrypted unfortunately. ☹️
We really need an audio game announcement service for the fediverse. I wonder how hard it would be to automate something like that.
audiogame-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Added game "Side Party".
It's December, the middle of the holiday season, and I haven't used the elf word even once! That's elfing terrible!
All the Red Flags in New Linux Foundation Report https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=348471
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We have 2 days to gather $567.83 or else the sole working vehicle for two families will be repossessed. This will make it impossible for my son in law to work and support the new baby that will be arriving this month, and will limit me to relatively scarce remote-only positions for my job hunt. Please help us if you can. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can give, even if it's just a boost.
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As a joke, my brother used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace at Christmas.
He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them. What they say about Santa checking the list twice must be true because every Christmas morning, although Jay’s kids’ stockings were overflowed, his poor pantyhose hung sadly empty.
One year I decided to make his dream come true. I put on sunglasses and went in search of an inflatable love doll. They don’t sell those things at Wal-Mart. I had to go to an adult bookstore downtown.
If you’ve never been in an X-rated store, don’t go. You’ll only confuse yourself. I was there an hour saying things like, “What does this do?” “You’re kidding me!” “Who would buy that?”
Finally, I made it to the inflatable doll section. I wanted to buy a standard, uncomplicated doll. One that could also substitute as a passenger in my truck so I could use the carpool lane during rush hour.
Finding what I wanted was difficult. Love dolls come in many different models. The top of the line, according to the side of the box, could do things I’d only seen in a book on animal husbandry.
I settled for ‘Lovable Louise.” She was at the bottom of the price scale. To call Louise a “doll” took a huge leap of imagination.
On Christmas Eve, with the help of an old bicycle pump, Louise came to life. My sister-in-law was in on the plan and let me in during the wee morning hours, long after Santa had come and gone, I filled the dangling pantyhose with Louise’s pliant legs and bottom. I also ate some cookies and drank what remained of a glass of milk on a nearby tray. I went home, and giggled for a couple of hours.
The next morning my brother called to say that Santa had been to his house and left a present that had made him VERY happy but had left the dog confused. She would bark, start to walk away, then come back and bark some more.
We all agreed that Louise should remain in her panty hose so the rest of the family could admire her when they came over for the traditional Christmas dinner.
My grandmother noticed Louise the moment she walked in the door.
“What the hell is that?” she asked.
My brother quickly explained, “It’s a doll.”
“Who would play with something like that?” Granny snapped. I had several candidates in mind, but kept my mouth shut.
“Where are her clothes?” Granny continued.
“Boy, that turkey sure smells nice, Gran,” Jay said, trying to steer her into the dining room. But Granny was relentless.
“Why doesn’t she have any teeth?”
Again, I could have answered, but why would I? It was Christmas and no one wanted to ride in the back of the ambulance saying, ”Hang on Granny! Hang on!”
My grandfather, a delightful old man with poor eyesight, sidled up to me and said, ” Hey, who’s the naked gal by the fireplace?”
I told him she was Jay’s friend.
A few minutes later I noticed Grandpa by the mantel, talking to Louise. Not just talking, but actually flirting. It was then that we realized this might be Grandpa’s last Christmas at home.
The dinner went well. We made the usual small talk about who had died, who was dying, and who should be killed, when suddenly Louise made a noise that sounded a lot like my father in the bathroom in the morning. Then she lurched from the panty hose, flew around the room twice, and fell in a heap in front of the sofa.
The dog screamed. I passed cranberry sauce through my nose, and Grandpa ran across the room, fell to his knees, and began administering mouth to mouth resuscitation. My brother fell back over his chair and wet his pants. Granny threw down her napkin, stomped out of the room, and sat in the car.
It was indeed a Christmas to treasure and remember
Later in my brother’s garage, we conducted a thorough examination and found the cause of Louise’s collapse. We discovered that Louise had suffered from a hot ember to the back of her right thigh. Fortunately, thanks to a wonder drug called gorilla tape, we restored her to perfect health.
Louise went on to star in several bachelor party movies. I think Grandpa still calls her whenever he can get out of the house.
😄😄
I hope that every time you see "Stockings hung by the chimney with care" you think of me and this amusing story 🙂
I38
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the I38 project Added chrome's accessibility flag for the apps that still need it.
Since there’s been a resurgence lately of the “mastodon is mostly just for folks who use Linux” thing …
… i’m now curious about my community here
(i’m offering intentionally crude and ungranular options in this poll)
“I use Linux …”
(Please boost!)
so, quick question for those who can/will help... i'm trying to install the stardew access mod, and i watched a video wherein someone was trying to install it, and they have a "libraries" folder inside there mods/stardew access" folder... i don't. am i missing something? i'm using steam for windows
@masonasons that's interesting. I wonder if you only have 32 bit wine installed for some reason. Which dstro are you using? Also, you could try creating a wine bottle and see what it comes out as. It should be win64 by default:
DISPLAY="" WINEPREFIX=~/.local/wine/test wineboot -uThen check to see what ~/.local/wine/test is.
@masonasons it sounds like it is not up to date. You can try deleting your local copy and recloning. I checked and it does specify 64 bit, and everything is up to date, so I did remember to push changes. If you check git log, you should see this at the top:
commit 9a47da3239cb44f4ca4c94046f553abebe70b42f (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Merge: 2c8b419 baef70b
Author: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Nov 26 00:31:34 2024 -0500
Merge branch 'testing' latest game additions, updates, and bug fixes.
@masonasons That was the original way back when AGM first got started, even before it was in git. The problem is, some games require conflicting versions of Windows, xp vs 8, vs 10 etc. Also some games require dependencies that break other games. This is why they aren't in bottles like winxp, win8, win10 etc. The closest we got for saving space was combining developers into their own bottles, which doesn't always work, but usually does.
@baethyn @JStark the Stormux setup for X86_64 is still experimental. If you want a distro that just works and is easy to set up and maintain, give Slint a try.
Arch is accessible now, you just have to select the speech option when booting. This is why the projects that made it accessible are no longer active.