Kyle, glad you can do that. My wife and I haven't gone that far along
the freedom trail, but it's still my long-term goal.
Al
On 7/29/2014 12:00 PM, Kyle wrote:
LOL you're not the only blind guy in America without a Victor Stream. I
also don't have one, and don't even feel the need, nor have the money to
purchase something like that <smile>. In fact, I don't have a lot of the
things that They, you kno, the They with a capital T, think we should
have lol. No Victor, none a dem crapple apples, no specialized or
temporarily marked up appliances, and certainly none a dat windblows and
shark biting a CD crap. Believe it or not, My family has gone almost
completely Linux and Linux related. Linux computers, Android phones,
Chromebooks and Sansa players running Rockbox, all of which are working
nicely. Yeah, it would be nice to get direct NLS downloads and to be
able to play them on our Android phones, but They, again that's the They
with a capital T, don't think we should have something nice like that,
so They aren't developing it for anyone other than those who do what
They say and get a crapple apple or a piece of specialized blindy tech.
I also thought it would be a good idea to develop a drop-in Rockbox
plugin that could be downloaded from the BARD website, so that we could
use off-the-shelf Sansa players to play books, but again, They with a
capital T don't think we should be using such things I guess. But then
again, I've always been one to buck the system, fight the power and use
mostly off-the-shelf products wherever possible, and adapt them using
free and open source technology if they don't already have it.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
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