Kyle, Great sentiments. When my Vinux system finally bit the dust, I discovered slint, and it's even better than Vinux, at least from my perspective. With slint, I can switch from hardware to soft synths in speakup, and to fenrir, if I want to get out of speakup entirely. Rudy On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:05:36PM -0400, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Oh wow! I can't see who you are because this list obscures the sender's > email for security reasons, but I love everything you just said. My whole > focus when I was doing my computer business thing was to work with everyone, > not just certain everyones. I probably had more customers who could see than > I had who did not have working eyeballs, but my point of sale for everyone > was to upgrade the OS on their computers to make it run faster and more > securely. Yes, I did at one time work with Sonar and with F123, and even > worked a little with the attempts to revive Vinux, but it actually didn't > hurt too much when both Sonar and Vinux pretty much went the way of the > dodo. I guess I could express my feeling as a slight disappointment, but not > much more. F123 was a little different, as I was a paid contractor working > on it, so that did hurt quite a bit more, I mean no one wants to stop making > money, but even that was manageable. > > > Now that I know that I am to make a major career move, I will be having to > put my face out there for the world to see. But the one thing I noticed is > that my instructor in the class I'm taking to get me started on this new > career path, when she learned that I am blind, kept this fact to herself > when I asked her specifically about a non-visual alternative to something in > the class, saying instead that she knew why I was asking the question and > tried to answer it to the best of her ability. I felt like this recognized > my humanity above all, and that is a very good thing. ANd having been > selected for this class and having worked with this instructor prior to it, > having purchased related educational materials and even having won a contest > from her based on my abilities, not on my non-working eyeballs - she had no > idea at that time that they don't work - I know that I am in the right place > at the right time dealing with the right person/people. I'm not "the blind," > I'm not treated as "the blind," and I'm not even selected for anything > because of my blindness. I am human, and my skillset and the fact that I > know I want to improve my skills and am passionate about the career path I'm > taking are what propell me to my destiny, and that just feels much better > somehow. I tried to express this to someone who is on this same career path > who said that we should support people just because they are blind, but he > didn't seem to get it. I simply couldn't make him understand that it's our > skills and our abilities, as well as the positive impact that we make on the > people around us and on the world that make us successful, not the blind > beggar mentality that says I need you to support the poor blink. These are > people who I would say exude negative energy, and I have decided that I only > want my spirit to be fed by positivity. > > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Rudy Vener Website: http://www.rudyvener.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RudySalt _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list