Seemingly an unpopular opinion: Programs should quit displaying update popups in the middle of people's workflow. Send me a notification, fine, but for fucks sake don't interrupt my workflow just to tell me there's an update to your godforsaken program. Bonus points if you can't turn off this absolutely cursed nonsense, (edit) and more bonus points if you can't actually install the update from that popup. This brought to you by me who has seen this twice tonight.

@freedomscientific @klittle667 Good to know, I'm definitely gonna find this useful! Thanks ☺️

@CallumStoneman @klittle667 Hello, This is a JAWS hotkey used specifically in Microsoft Teams. Pressing Alt+Windows+S provides information such as the state of the microphone, camera, and screen sharing for an active Teams meeting.

@klittle667 @freedomscientific No idea to be honest, I was all in on the Mac when Skype was in its time so never really used it on Windows

@klittle667 @freedomscientific Aah interesting! I have a Teams meeting coming up in a few minutes so I'll give it a try when I join. Thanks

So here’s one of those keyboard shortcuts I probably should have known about already after over 10 years of using #JAWS, but didn’t! When I press Alt+Windows+S, JAWS announces “meeting status unavailable”. This appears to be a global shortcut and doesn’t seem to change no matter what I do from my (admittedly very brief) testing. FS Companion says that the keystroke is used to toggle between the local machine and the remote machine in a tandem session, which is incorrect. Anyone know what this does? I’m also using #Leasey if that makes a difference. #BlindTech #ScreenReader @freedomscientific

@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @AiraVI I think that’s just like anything else you might do with AI, use it as guidance if you want to but also Use your common sense. If the AI says my chicken doesn't expire until next week so I think "ah, great", but then I open it and it smells like someone's died in the packet, I know which one I'm trusting

@FreakyFwoof @AiraVI To be fair to them, this could be a Google restriction/requirement. Not really sure why that would be the case seeing as Gemini Live Video is available here, but you never know with AI related projects and partnerships. Totally agree with you though. At the very least they could've made the US only requirement clearer rather than just a small mention in the signup form

@AiraVI This sounds great! But only available in the US. Any idea when this might be rolling out to the UK?

@simon I've seen quite a bit of discussion about this but with no clear answers. The main thing I can't work out is why the 2 options both seem to exist. What is the difference apart from the price?

@DavidGoldfield @freedomscientific
@doubletap this feels like something you guys might be able to cover/clarify if there are changes coming, any chance of you getting some info about this from your FS contacts?

A cowboy, who just moved to Montana from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud. He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.

When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.

The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, "You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time."

The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Arizona, the other is in Colorado. When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.

So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself." The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there. The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way.

He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.

One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs.

All the regulars take notice and fall silent.

When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss."

The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.

"Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains. "It's just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."

“It hasn't affected my brothers though."

I think that global Accessibility Awareness Day was started with the best of intensions. But now I think the majority of companies treat it the same as prides, where they pay lip service to it once a year but do bugger all about making their products accessible the rest of the time.

Leasey tip: ChatGPT with Abbreviations.
Don't forget that you can use Leasey Abbreviations alongside ChatGPT.

Let's assume that there are many prompts you regularly give to ChatGPT but they just need adapting in a small way.
1. Create a Leasey text containing text like this:

I will provide a date in the format of day, month, and year. Your task is to return the Top 40 UK Singles Chart for the specified date. You should format it in this order:
Current week position. Artist; song title, new line.
Sample output:
1. ABBA; Dancing Queen.
2. Brotherhood of Man; Save Your Kisses For Me.
The date is
Then include a space character because we will need this later on.
3. Create a Leasey abbreviation based on the text. In this example, you may call it, chart.
4. Open up ChatGPT with the Chat key followed by N.
5. Insert your text by typing the abbreviation followed by Windows key apostrophe.
6. Then in this example, type the date, such as, 18 April 1979.
7. Press Enter and you should get the result returned.

If you create regular prompts for ChatGPT, it's a highly efficient way of reproducing them. #LeaseyLove

@hartgenconsult Oh wow, never knew about those shortcuts to shutdown and restart the system!

@jscholes @FreakyFwoof Haha, I quite like Ed's music but I will 100% agree with you on that one! Along with Thinking Out Loud

@andrew Aah that’s great to hear

I was cooking with turmeric and didn't realise I still had it on my hands when I stroked my daughter's white cat. Pretended I had no idea why Snowy's head had suddenly turned yellow. Can't admit it now as she ran up a big vet's bill trying to work out what was wrong.

@andrew If necessary, it is possible to assign one of the backtap gestures to it which he may find easier. If he has a phone with an action button, I believe that can be assigned to it as well

@alexhall I was with you until your last point about Siri. You almost made it sound like a useful assistant