I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…

Well and there you have it.
Christmas is officially over. And honestly? It was a total flop:
I've been better off physically last year, even though I did a lot of sports this year I feel like I just don't have energy, am not even demotivated, but just, tired and don't get things done. The vibe wasn't there at all. If you asked me a month ago I would've felled it, and I do not know why that is.
I hope 2026 brings a better year overall, despite the name.
But now with the wining out of the way, I hope yall had a good, or fine enough christmas.

I'm still sometimes mad that sighted users are up to 8K monitors, or lower-resolution screens with insane refresh rates. Color accuracy is amazing. Bloom isn't a problem as dimming zone counts increase and OLED drops in price. There are resolutions, widths, inputs, and other features for almost any situation. Meanwhile, braille displays still cost thousands, and we're celebrating because we can kind of feel rough line drawings, on devices that still use mechanical pins. I get it, but still...
in reply to Alex Hall

It seems like a big part of the problem is that huge brands haven't put any resources into braille. Samsung, LG, Hisense, and others keep pushing visual display technology forward--we have screens that can literally fold in half! Meanwhile, braille is still stuck using the resources of tiny companies to move forward. What would happen if Apple, or Microsoft, or Samsung threw a billion dollars and a team of genius scientists and engineers at braille display technology?
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Was könnte denn eine passende Fedi-Instanz für einen jungen Transmann sein, der sich u.a. für alles, was fliegt, interessiert, und auf den Hund gekommen ist? 😄

Würde ihm gern eine Community hier schmackhaft machen.

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Episode 03 von "Dada & Welf - Kommando Katze" ist soeben auf den gängigen Plattformen erschienen und ich spreche einen K.I. Schlitten 😁

Viel Spaß und Frohe Restweihnachten!

album.link/dadawelf3

in reply to Tommy Krappweis

Den hast Du richtig gut getroffen! Diese überenthusiastische Art, wie die KI-Chatbots sprechen, die Illusionen, die auch bei Bildbeschreibungen gern mal, zuschlagen, und dieses erstmal nach dem Mund reden. So herrlich! Allerdings wirft die Folge auch Fragen auf, wer die stiftende Entität war z. B. Schätze das wird an anderer Stelle nochmal wichtig? Euch einen geruhsamen Jahreswechsel!