Rachel Ramos

@walkside3
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Assistive technologist, audio enthusiast, bass guitarist and drummer. Reader of mysteries and thrillers, but also enjoy biographies, memoirs, tech history, and any recommendations. Rock/metal are my musical genres of choice, but there's a special place reserved for '80s-'90s songs in my rotation.
New FFDP single released! I saw them last year here, and they were incredible! Hope they stop by on their next tour. This song is just classic, solid, you know what you're geting. Very energetic. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Shares First Taste Of New Single 'Eye Of The Storm' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET https://blabbermouth.net/news/five-finger-death-punch-shares-first-taste-of-new-single-eye-of-the-storm
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Shares First Taste Of New Single 'Eye Of The Storm'

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH will release a new single, "Eye Of The Storm", on Friday, May 15. The track will serve as the first single from the band's upcoming tenth studio album, which is expected to arrive before the end of the year. A short preview of "Eye Of The Storm" is available below. In a Janua...

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Meet Rabbit, the REAPER Accessibility Bootstrap & Bundle Installation Tool, your one and only tool to keep REAPER and all its extensions up to date.
Rabbit does make sure to update REAPER, OSARA, SWS, ReaPack, ReaKontrol, JAWS Scripts and FFMpeg on Windows and Mac, no matter if ARM or x64. It comes as a single executable that you can run and forget whenever you want. For nerds it also contains a CLI application that can be used to automate mass installations etc.
https://github.com/Timtam/rabbit/releases/tag/v0.1.0
Release v0.1.0 · Timtam/rabbit

Initial public release. RABBIT is a REAPER accessibility bootstrap and bundle installer with a screen-reader-friendly GUI wizard and a matching CLI, packaged as a single self-contained executable p...

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In addition to that, ChatGPT also gave extra tips such as when removing the keyboard, flip it like a page. I put this guide on the Monarch so I could read as I disassembled the laptop and re-assembled it. I have never ventured taking a laptop apart, due to the small size of parts, and my fear of breaking things beyond repair. Well, this post is brought to you buy the brand-new installed keyboard on the Framework which is a pleasure to type on! So, yes, Framework, I think you passed the test!
Today, I put the Framework laptop's repairability to the test. for the last year and a half, my up arrow has had a keycap that has steadily been declining and hanging by a thread. So, I ordered a new keyboard. The Framework site has some very well-written guides on how to replace parts. For the keyboard guide, they kept referring to images to ensure proper placement/orientation. I put the guide through ChatGPT, and told it to describe the images in a blind-friendly way.
My local classic rock radio station recently interviewed a chef who has provided some tips for cooking asparagus, which I'd like to learn more about. Before getting to this, however, the hosts were saying that they came across a story in which they found a Spotify playlist you can download and it is the exact time you need to cook pasta. What? A playlist? Do we not set timers anymore? How confusing! I'm always timing things in the kitchen, and wouldn't think to substitute a playlistfor a timer.
Clicks Communicator shipping timeline is confirmed, but it won’t start until the end of the year https://9to5google.com/2026/04/27/clicks-communicator-release-timing-confirmed/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
That’s the best part of the plot!

There’s jerseys, brats, and peanuts,
And innings full of fun.
You know the party’s starting
When then bus riders pull up!

Having fun isn’t hard,
When you’ve got a WisGo card!" (2/2)
Gotta hand it to the Milwaukee Transit system for some creativity: "Having fun isn’t hard,
When you’ve got a WisGo card.
Having fun isn’t hard,
When you’ve got a WisGo card.

Come on inside,
We’ve got everything you need.
Hop on the CONNECT, 74 or 18,
We’ll get you there with speed.

Our routes go downtown,
And west toward the Milwaukee Brewers park.
One quick little tap,
Bus riding isn’t hard.

Ride to the game,
Skip traffic and the lot.
No searching for parking, (1/2)
This stands to reason that physical keyboards will be faster than touch screens, and continues that physical controls will be more efficient than touch screen ones in cars. Same goes for ethernet-connected devices, wired audio equipment ... physical buttons and knobs are just quicker, (and, in the case of transportation), safer than something you can't feel. https://mindly.social/@Ranger1138/116346857569620812
Joe Steinkamp (@[email protected])

Volkswagen CEO Is Standing Up for Physical Buttons in Cars https://gizmodo.com/volkswagen-ceo-is-standing-up-for-physical-buttons-in-cars-2000742136

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I have now spent almost a week with the #1Password app, and I have to say, I really don't know how I lived without it. It's one of my top apps I use every day, like Fast-SM and FastPlay. Since I got them, I haven't used anything else for the tasks at hand. What a year it has been in terms of discovering apps.

I have created some JAWS scripts for 1Password, but the scripting is minimal because it's not especially necessary. The one tip I can pass onto anyone is to use Quick Access, Control+Shift+Space. There is enormous power behind that keystroke, perhaps more than you would think.
It allows me to open a secure note in a virtual view, and it does not have the disadvantage of opening it up in the full 1Password app where focus is often lost when moving out of, and into, the app. I did script around that focus issue but I've removed it because of Quick Access.
I can also launch web sites from Quick Access and copy usernames and passwords for areas where the browser extension is not supported.

As I say, I have modified JAWS behaviour a small amount in some areas But I would recommend the app to anyone. In summary, it gives me anything all in one place: web sites I need to launch and log into together with all my notes. I've got a lot added to it now to make it very functional both for personal and professional use. I know principally it is meant to be a password manager, but it's saving me a whole heap of time in many other areas.