Re: Turning off screen in Linux

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Tim again.  Just a small *derp* correction:  I wrote "VoiceOver"
(Apple's engine) where I meant "Talkback" (Android's)

Sorry if there was any confusion.

-Tim

On 2022-10-18 22:54, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Tim here.  There's "dark mode" as meant by most folks (where the
> colorscheme tends to be light text on a dark background which I
> find easier on my eyes), and there's the "Dark Mode" on this phone
> which actually turned off the screen completely, only keeping the
> touch-aspect on, so it looked off but was completely usable as far
> as VoiceOver went.
> 
> In this case it's a pretty *ancient* Samsung Galaxy J3 which didn't
> have 5G support so our carrier, Ting.  But that's the one with the
> better accessibility features.  So I replaced it about 2 years ago
> with a Unihertz Jelly2 which is a tiny little thing, about the size
> of a small flip-phone except it is running actual Android.  I love
> it, but I acknowledge that it's not for everybody (it drives my
> wife nuts when she has to use it for anything, since it's so small)
> 
> -Tim
> 
> On 2022-10-18 18:26, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > Dark Mode should be a standard feature on Smartphones, but that any
> > phone has such a feature is better than I expected. Do you happen to
> > recall the make of that older phone? I picked the Moto G Power 2022
> > for my learning experience as the model line has a reputation for
> > being good, entry-level phones with close to stock android, the kind
> > of battery life where you aren't screwed if you forget to charge it
> > every night, and based on a few positive reviews of prior models from
> > users on this and other Linux accessibility adjacent mailing lists,
> > but so far I've only really gotten around to completing the Talkback
> > Totorial and figuring out where they hid the SD slot(there isn't a
> > standard SD slot per se, but a tiny drawer you need to use a pinhole
> > eject button to get at it. Its like they tried to make using memory
> > cards on this thing as inconvenient as possible short of having to
> > disassemble the phone).
> > 
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