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| montecri:
Today you can find floppy drive emulators. They are a drop-in replacement for the real thing but take thumb drives or SD Cards as the read/write medium. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 06, 2023, 02:24:40 pm --- --- Quote from: Fungus on February 06, 2023, 01:54:19 pm --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on February 06, 2023, 12:46:15 pm --- --- Quote from: Fungus on February 06, 2023, 10:46:42 am ---Do you own a smart phone? Do you find the user interface "too modern"? What do you suggest as input instead of a touch screen? --- End quote --- No; a smart phone would be useless as I am deaf. --- End quote --- Smartphones are perfect for deaf people. You can do text messages with them... --- End quote --- I send/receive text messages with my phone. If you give people/companies a phone number, they tend to presume they can contact you on the phone. That's perfectly reasonable, of course. --- End quote --- As a deaf person I would be lost without my smart phone. There is, of course, the text but 'smart' doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on one's hearing. You don't need to be able to hear to view pdfs, do email, lookup the weather, etc. However, if you have an issue with companies calling you on your phone (or you needing to phone out), you should look into BT Relay which essentially answers your phone (or makes your calls) for you. Some hearing person acts as a MitM and you choose whether to type and listen, read and talk, or type and read - the MitM does the rest. I use this on my PC but don't give out the redirect number (it's an additional number you plonk in front of you phone's normal number). Instead, my phone redirects incoming calls and an app on the PC then takes it from there.You can, of course, do it all on the phone: talk while reading the translation the MitM supplies, but since I prefer to type (speech isn't too hot) doing it all on the phone is too unwieldy for me. BT Relay also works with landlines, of course, if anyone still has one. Edit: another smart thing I like is the Google translate stuff that does voice to text for me when faced with someone. Also I have a spectrum analyzer which I use to gain access to intercom-controlled places. I can tell when someone is speaking (though not what they are saying) and thus know when to say my bit. I don't think non-smart phones would do those very well. |
| tggzzz:
Thanks for that most entertaining "edit" :) Superb hack! I agree with you about the other points, but I'll argue that isn't a pbone, it is a small screen computer with a fast modem. To me phone==voice. I've never tried BT Relay or other mitm mechanisms, since I can hear just about adequately with a normal phone. I don't know how an mitm mechanism would work with a half hour wait for a company to get around to bothering with this valued customer. |
| PlainName:
The Relay people are very good. Generally they keep out of the way and Just Do It. Periodically they'll say still waiting or something, and once I got into having a decent chat with one while we were waiting (you don't have to, and I think it's the norm not to). A couple of times I've suggested we give up in case they have more important calls to handle, but they just say the current call is the important one and they're happy to stay online for as long as it takes. It's a great service, and completely free (except you pay for the call redirect). |
| tggzzz:
OK, thanks. I'll file that user experience and review away for future use. |
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