SanctimoniousApe

joined 11 months ago
[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

The same people who still buy into that bullshit are the same people electing the politicians who are destroying our lives - because they prefer to vote for lies they want to believe rather than deal with the truth of reality.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 13 minutes ago

Kinda difficult to schedule "hard" times, tho...

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 4 hours ago

Looks like someone with serious jowls.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 8 points 4 hours ago

I'm well past that. Just throw me in the incinerator now, I guess...

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 4 hours ago

If you do it repeatedly, are you then recycling the rapist?

[–] SanctimoniousApe 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You were waving around those... those... facts in their faces again, weren't you?!?

...yeah - me, too. 😔

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 1 day ago
[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Who will soon find themselves in some hostile nation courtesy of ICE.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 6 points 3 days ago

Can the rest just die in a (hell)fire or something, too? They're completely destroying this country by playing Trump's puppet strings.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 2 points 3 days ago

Choosing wisely requires a modicum of rationality - a fact that doesn't jibe very well with intentionally jumping off a perfectly functional airplane that's miles up in the air.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 12 points 3 days ago

"Pro-life" asshole won't care for an unborn baby because its mother is unwed. As if there were any more proof needed that being "pro-life" is really just an excuse to be a judgemental prick, this most certainly provides the final nail in the coffin against the idea that there's any other real reason for it.

These assholes need to meet their "God." NOW.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 3 points 3 days ago

Sorry, but about the only thing I found interesting about this post (since it posed a question it didn't answer in any way) was the HP with the PSU designed right under the expansion card slots. Seems like something that would be incredibly prone to causing problems for those cards due to heat, which makes me feel I must be missing something because it's such a blatantly obvious issue.

 

Sorry these guys have to put off their retirement, but thank goodness they're willing to.

 

IMHO, the only "hypocrisy" is with the conservative-owned press holding Biden to standards LONG since tossed aside for Trump. The people have made it clear they only respect a government who fights dirty, and WAY effing past time they get what they asked for. In the scheme of things, this is positively mundane - but they'll try to attack anything that Dems do that they'd gleefully make excuses for Trump doing since that pisses off Dems. I congratulate Biden for finally saying "fuck it," and doing the same thing they would do.

 

It blows my mind that there are no legal blocks in place to prevent this (yeah, I know it's because this shit was so unthinkable that nobody prepared for it). This yahoo is on a mission to destroy EVERYTHING America was supposed to stand for. SOMETHING has to be done to stop this shit!

 

Republicans: the party of freedom, my farking ass.

 

Frankly, I hope Elon wins this one. His handling of Twitter demonstrates his incompetence, and his inability to keep his mouth shut will be helpful in preparing to fight whatever BS they're up to next. The other guy might be too smart and sneaky considering his involvement in the fake elector scheme.

 

Google's "Voice Access" is decent for controlling the device through verbal commands, but you have to be looking at the screen to get results - it won't read anything back to you.

Google's "TalkBack" will read things on screen to you, but you have to interact with the screen physically (never mind the significant change in how interactions work - which I understand the need for - but it's still a serious mental PITA to switch between the two interaction methodologies frequently).

Is there no way to just interact with it entirely verbally? A (very) simple example of what I'm looking for:

  1. "What are the current Google News headlines?"
  2. Starts reading each one aloud, along with the names of the sources.
  3. "Read the article about Trump caught making out with Elon from AP News."
  4. Proceeds to load the article & read it aloud.

(Yeah, I know there are podcasts for this - it's meant to illustrate the basic idea of completely verbal interaction with the device, not be an actual problem I'm looking for someone to provide a solution to.)

It just seems to me that we should be able to do this by now - especially with all the AI blow-up over the past couple of years. Can anybody point me to a usable solution to accomplish this?

TIA.

EDIT: I thought of a better example (I think), because it occurred to me that the above one could (sort of) be done with a Google Home speaker. I'm looking to be able to interact with Android apps verbally wherever possible, so my better example is "What are the latest posts made to the 'No Stupid Questions' community on Lemmy?" So far as I know, Google Home is not able to do such a thing. I'd like to tell Android to open my Lemmy client and start reading post headlines until it hit one I wanted to have it open & read to me.

I'm basically looking to use apps verbally to fill in gaps that Google Home/Assistant don't cover.

EDIT 2: Here's an even better, more universally applicable description of what I'm after - copied from a response I gave to another comment:

Imagine someone doing some relatively mindless menial job such as working an assembly line, janitorial work, chauffer - something where your mind is relatively unoccupied, but you're not free to look at and/or touch your device (whether it be due to practicality, or job rules). While doing that job, I want to be able to have the device read and interact with something of interest to me at that moment (ADHD is a fickle mistress), rather than just relying on podcasts with predefined content. Kind of like having someone next to me doing all the interfacing between me and the device.

EDIT 3: I added a comment with some news on options that may come close enough to doing the job which I've come across since posting.

 

I've often assumed Harris didn't want to insult her boss by going against him, because I got the impression she was planning to give Netanyahu what for once she took over - especially with him escalating things further and further. Did anyone else get that vibe, or was it just wishful thinking on my part?

 

People are calling for violence against FEMA on TikTok and X, new reports say.

I seriously don't understand why these people aren't immediately tracked down and arrested for terroristic threats. This BS is way beyond any reasonable "free speech" limit.

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