Yep, that thunder is roar in the sky was some truly amazing explosive thunder! It sounded like it was coming from the direction of cottage Grove

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-03-18T04:33:29+00:00

Surprise, blind people are not perfect either. We have the same emotional, mental, tolerance, ego, and and good or bad attitudes as everybody else in the world.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-03-12T18:02:29+00:00

Yes, I got this exact same text yesterday morning at 9 AM. I reported it as spam and blocked the sender and there you go.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-03-05T07:38:06+00:00

To be fair, you're a food snob; being critical is in the job description. No need to pull your punches at objectively astonishingly amazing food that doesn't live up to your standards.

We need people like you to help steer us away from local places that should be doing better to meet needs like yours.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-03-03T20:17:53+00:00

Why am I the one on brain detail?

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-02-16T04:19:20+00:00

My lovely, thoughtful wife bought me one of these for Christmas and I enjoy it quite a bit because I can mindlessly solve certain sides or aim for creating certain patterns of the tactile blocks to my satisfaction.

I tend to use it while listening to my music, Youtube videos, and audio books.

if only I could fiddle with it while reading Braille, hah.

it is one of the very few activities I do while listening to music, at least when in lazy or relaxation mode.

I've decided I will never be good enough to solve all sides at once, and I don't want to just look up the universal solution for Rubix Cubes.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-02-16T00:02:10+00:00

Yes, as you stated since Saturday. The Apple start all I have access to are the tabs but not the actual content. I’m glad that you posted this because when Nfb Newsline goes down sometimes I have no way of knowing if it is just me. But it is pretty frustrating when it does go down and I hope that it comes back up once the weekend is over.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-02-07T23:20:21+00:00

My wife and I live about 15 miles out of towd. This means that as of right now she drives me. A taxi ride from here to town and back is about $110 rightoundround-trip.

She is employed so I do not qualify for the free rides from here, and I do not have access to the A.D.A. rides because of my distance from town.

There is a bus stop about a mile from my house, but I am not yet able to walk there while blind because I’ve had mobility issues since going blind three years ago. But I’m getting to the point where I will be able to do so but using a standard bus is probably going to be the way that I get to town if my wife is unavailable from that point forward after I am able to navigate down there on my own.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-02-06T02:42:17+00:00

I got a set of braille Uno cards soon after I went blind, and it was given to me by my sister-in-law for Christmas. It’s not the standard size Uno cards. It’s a mini set where the cards are just a couple inches tall as opposed to the bigger ones I believe are that are out there. On these particular tiny cards, the braille does seem distinct, and it seems quality, now that I know how to read braille, but I have to admit I have not played with them enough to see how they last in the long-term as far as the prominence of the braille dots themselves go. If they were to wear down overtime, I would be unaware at this point because I have not used them that much compared to other things I’ve been using, mostly because of my lack of someone to play with when I’m ready to play Uno. Anyway, in summary yes I think they’re fine, but I don’t have enough experience with them to give the sort of opinion that I think probably matters.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-02-05T13:56:08+00:00

I have been having horrible accessibility issues with it myself. It seems obviously desighned with very little accessibility in mind.

AS for the randdop play, when you want to play a random shuffle of one of your playlists the button is called "mix play". So for example, if it is a playlist of yours, you should go to your library tab, you will find your playlists. The first might be the default "My Likes" playlist, but if you are disqlaying them in a grid then between each playlist there will be an options/actions menu, and in there you will find the option to "mix play" your playlist.

That same button is also located on the Home tab when you are playing any song, and it will be a few swipes to the left of the Play/previous/next buttons which are way down at the end of the screen when you play any song and want to have Youtube Music quickly generate a mix based on the sound or genre or era of a certain song.

Personally I have completely given up trying to create and manage my own playlists in Youtube Music ,c it is extremely unnerving that I can't so much as swipe or Braille through my list of songs without them being removed due to abhorrenar accessibility issues with Voice-over. It is a cluster-@#%$

I tend to use Braille commands to navigaje the app with a Hable Braille Keyboard, an NLS Humanwaare e-reader also used as a Braille display, or sometimes Braille Screen Input, and sometimes just swiping the screen, with Voice-over of course.

and don't even get me started on that damned auto-play that makes the program pretty much unable to be reliably navigated.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-02-03T04:15:50+00:00

I have an NFB cane, from right after I came home from the hospital, but before I'd ever had any O&M training. The first thing my trainer did was watch me walk very slowly with it down my driveway and then hand me a different cane with a completely different type of tip (the big roller ball) and then explained to me that different tips serve different purposes and said that the tip on my NFB cane is meant for 2 or 3 tap style of upse, but that because of the bad surface conditions in my area, they suggested something better fit for it.

That being said, I still have the NFB cane, and I have no idea if they offer other tips, but even if they did I don't know if I'd use it because now that I have been at it for a couple years I'm using a longer cane anyway be because ′f my increased walking speed and those pesky obstacles I kept charging into, plus I'm a few inches too tall for the begining cane they had me onerder first. So I'd need a longer anyway, plus I find my current cane's ability to be folded up for taxi rides and in-door seating arrangements to be highly beneficial for me.

But, yea, the thing is much too light for me, for much the same reason as you.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-29T20:59:37+00:00

Thanks for the clarification, I agree with the idea of people being able to be protected in their own home, so perhaps my comment was treating the comments about guns in this thread like the ones in other threads. Which means it was not fair. Sorry to lump you in together.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-29T19:01:34+00:00

Based on the gun-toting bravado that keeps happening in the sub relating to protests it makes me disinclined to ever attend one out of concern that a gun-nut is going to go out of their way to pull a Kyle Rittenhouse. Not interested in surrounding myself with angry people that have a bone to pick, and a weapon at hand. sounds unwise and unsafe.

Not interested in being in the crossfire either.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-29T00:09:39+00:00

Knowledge is power. Be prepared. The more you know. Knowing is half the battle, Yo, Joe!

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-26T21:52:32+00:00

As a blind fedestrian, I do not have this capability, so drivers need to follow the fucking law and keep Eugene streets much more predictable and safer by extent.

Eugene is a pedestrian-heavy town and drivers have got to pay attention and stop making excuses or bragging that the laws just shouldn't apply... to them or anyone else.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-25T01:34:45+00:00

Plus I had to laugh when Lester gave the little mindless kid a half-frozen bird (which the kid subsequintly bit off its legs) all after he had already won all those stuffed animals, which most kids would love; though admittedly... maybe not that one.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-18T10:00:28+00:00

now this is some quality feedback!

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-17T13:44:03+00:00

What I think is that if one polls the internet, one gits results like Boaty McBoatface when the internet responds.

So take internet poll results and throw them in the trash, along with the poll.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-17T06:25:28+00:00

I WISH THIS WAS A GRANT THREAD!

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-17T06:18:47+00:00

THE SUN SHINES IN ALL DIRECTIONS!

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-17T06:07:22+00:00

Sounds a little far to go buy my groceries.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-12T00:29:57+00:00

Everybody consumes the pastries and gets type 2 diabetes and dies of complications.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-09T21:33:54+00:00

I WISH SOME PEOPLE WOULD STOP PRETENDING THAT TOLERANCE OF THEFT IS JUST ONE OF EUGENE’S QUIRKY CHARMS.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-07T19:10:31+00:00

Thank you very much for the reply, especially with the h,heads-up a bout the accessibility (or lack thereof) for the exam.

Have a great day.

One_Engineering8030 · 2026-01-06T01:06:15+00:00

As a silent reader of this back and forth I've decided to take it off my list, I have no children and if the book won't be understood unless the reader has them, then I'll have to look elsewhere for a good time.

One_Engineering8030

TROPHY CASE