Notices by Kaliah (kaliah@dragonscave.space)

a thing that really, really irks me about deleting/moving apps on the iphone is if you delete an app, it will move the preexisting apps on the page around to put the empty space in the bottom right corner. No, you jerk, I have muscle memory and every single time I delete an unwanted app from my phone I then have to spend 5-10 minutes screwing with my home screen to get my apps back where I wanted them. I wish it would just leave the empty space where it naturally was by the removed app instead of it bumping everything up to make room for it. Is there some way to turn this off or at least make the reset of my apps back to their initial positions any easier?

Yep, I'm about to be that person again. Please remember to put alt text on your audio as well as your images. Deaf people matter, too. "A silly song" or "game sounds" is not helpful, the same way "a cute bird" or "a funny meme with a cat" aren't helpful as image alt texts. Blind or sighted, please do this. I'm not even someone who really needs audio alt texts and I'm still sad when I see missing or unhelpful alt text. It doesn't have to be some elaborate thing, you don't have to be a perfect writer or capture every minute detail, just describe what you're hearing. I always liked the thing of "describe it like you're talking to a friend who can't access it," and I think that's applicable here just as much as it is to images. And no, it is not just deaf people who benefit from audio alt texts.

@evan Yes, most of them are at least decent, but I've had to curate to find the ones I really like. I don't think this is very out of the norm though, so I'd say yes mostly.

I would like everybody to know that I was writing "no media" with the letters spaced out, "N O M E D I A", and then had deleted it letter by letter. The result was my screen reader spelling out "A I D E M O N", AI demon. I'm far more amused than I should be about this very strange fact. Lol.

There's a rattly cat toy ball, it has plastic things and I think a bell inside it, in my house. My cat just started playing with it at 4:30 in the morning in the room with wooden floors right above my head and scared the absolute crap out of me. Good thing I was awake already or I may have had words. Lol

Your friendly reminder, since it's April Fools Day. It is only a joke if you, *and* the person you're joking with, find it funny. If only you find it funny, that is not a joke. That is you being a jerk under the excuse of joking. Please do not try to pull "jokes" that could actually hurt someone. And yes, emotionally hurt does count as hurting someone. Not everything has to become something you play with, and there are likely many things you should absolutely not play with. Take care of yourselves and those around you. Have a good rest of your day. This is not a subpost, I just tend to see people pulling things on April fools that are far from funny to all parties and I feel this needs to be said.

@Fragglemuppet I haven't had the chocolate version, I only know one kind, so I'm probably not an accurate judge

@Bri @Kingslayer @Fragglemuppet @J3317 I can too. Sounds good honestly lol.

@Fragglemuppet @J3317 @Kingslayer @Bri Hmm. Interesting, I was just curious if maybe I'd had them under a different name.

@Fragglemuppet @J3317 @Kingslayer @Bri Do the chocolate ones go by a different name in the US?

Hi brain. Are you having fun making everything, especially my music, sound a tiny bit higher pitch than it actually is? I bet you are. Thank you for this useful alteration of my sensory experience!

Thank you NVDA, this is incredibly useful. I absolutely love this thing I just came across on a website. I just came across:
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@TheQuinbox @BTyson This is me too. I’ve never known how to describe it other than that it’s visual. I think in some part it’s based on things I’ve felt, but I don’t usually picture them as if I’m touching them. It’s more like I can just see it, its shape, its details, its texture almost, with no touch involved. I can imagine touching something, but that’s different than my visual mapping of a place, object, environment, or anything else. I don’t even know how it came to be, which is another weird aspect. If I could help in this thread I certainly would, but unfortunately I don’t know how I built this up. It’s just there.

Also. I know many people have said this before, but I'm going to say it again. Just because someone has it worse doesn't mean someone isn't allowed to be stressed out or have struggles. Just because there's homelessness or poverty or whatever is "worse" doesn't mean someone's not allowed to be stressed out about their own "smaller" problems. Yes. These things are awful. Yes there are bad things happening. But the existence of these bad things *does not* invalidate other, more "trivial" issues. People's problems are people's problems no matter how trivial they seem to you. If a person is struggling, maybe don't tell them their feelings aren't reasonable because people are dealing with worse. Struggling. Is not. A competition. Struggling. Is not. Something to quantify and rank. Struggles are struggles. Everyone's life experience is different. How about have some decency and compassion and support everyone through whatever is bothering them. Fuck.

@svenja Yeah. Unfortunately I'm not a coder, or i would've fixed this myself.

@svenja Yeah. Again, very unfortunate. It gets tiring going back and forth. I would just stick with semaphore but that doesn't have notification sounds and I do really want those in my client.

I still really, reeeeeally wish someone would fix the enafore crash whenever someone quotes posts. Or make a new fork of it to fix this bug. Getting very tired of switching back and forth between enafore and semaphore because someone quoted something that my client noped out on.

@svenja I don't think any of the pinafore/semaphore/enafore family actually display quote posts properly

@svenja That's unfortunate. I really, really like this client, but this one bug really really ruins it.

@svenja Like I said semaphore is great, and I'd stick with it and ditch enafore completely if Semaphore had sounds for notifications. It annoys me to not have that. Otherwise yes I agree with you.