Chromium and Electron tell web apps when your microphone is soft-muted at the OS level, which is pretty nice for #WebRTC videoconferencing websites like #Jitsi.

You can see it in Jitsi's "waiting room" before entering the meeting, and Jitsi's CPU consumption drops while muted. There's no such indication while inside the meeting however, and it wastes CPU processing silent audio, so I reported that: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/17282

Doesn't work at all in #Firefox though. Anyone knows the API name?

Ce matin j'ai pris le temps de mesurer les combinaisons de couleurs et signaler le manque de contraste nuisant à l'accessibilité visuelle des instances de #AgendaDuLibre en mode clair (durant le jour): https://framagit.org/agenda-libre/agenda-libre-ruby/-/work_items/258

#a11y #accessibility #ContrastRebellion #accessibilité #usability #UX #logiciellibre

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zugaldia/116351933343098498

The "Speed of Sound" app by @zugaldia, once you set up a custom global keyboard shortcut that doesn't conflict with GNOME's, is pretty amazing: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.speedofsound.SpeedOfSound

This is the first time I experience reliable speech recognition for #dictation on the desktop, particularly on #Linux! Until now I had given up on that being a possibility.

Works really well in English. It struggles with French, but who doesn't?!

#Whisper #speechrecognition #GNOME #accessibility #a11y

Decided to spoil myself & purchase a Bluetooth headset, the Fiio EH11: https://fiio.com/eh11

YouTubers rave about it as the Koss Porta Pro killer; it's ⅓ the price & you can tune it with a persistent EQ.

Rotary maple wood knobs on the sides (to skip tracks / adjust volume) is genius.

I hope the microphone is good, as it would be a huge plus for calls while exercising or commuting.

I hate that it uses a proprietary battery (with USB-C charging) instead of AAA, but YOLO 🤷

#Fiio #headphones

Installed #Fedora 44 on a PC to replace a buggy Debian "stable", and got to use the new Anaconda UI (the one made with a web interface behind the scenes)…

Wow. For the first time in decades, the advanced partitioning tool lets me delete & create partitions without issues! It doesn't mis-parse sizes, it gives me hints (in sidebar) on which partitions it expects/needs, and it doesn't lag!

The installer was my no.1 issue in Fedora, and it finally works for my usecase 😌

#Linux

Something that has been on my mind for nearly 30 years: why did the French translators for FF7 rename "Cloud" to "Clad", while "Claude" was _right there_ ?!

Claude couldn't have been more French even if they replaced the Buster Sword with a big baguette.

#FinalFantasy #FF7 #Claude