Miriam,
I was happiest when I had windows xp and outlook express. But my
current situation is mostly my own doing. I've filed away Bill
White's contact information, but at the moment I had already agreed to
see if Viola can get me up and running again. She was a great help
several years ago. But then I happened to speak with a member of our
JCCB chapter while she was working with a rehab teacher, who was
helping her clean up her messy computer. It turned out that he is our
replacement on the Olympic Peninsula, and he is especially skilled in
most phases of computer services. So, said I to me, why not sign on
as a client and use the Department's rehab teacher to get back up and
running.
What I started to say is that our troubles all stem from the fact that
we are not the ones being served. We are the means by which
corporations must travel in order to reach their goal of maximizing
their profit. So long as the reward is a bigger percentage of the
market, and not the service of the customer, we will have all of
these endless issues. Little things like the size of a pull tab on a
beverage. Make it just a wee bit smaller and thinner, and save a
million dollars a year in materials. Who cares if the tabs are
difficult for arthritic hands, someone will develop a tool for doing
the job. So what if it goes into the clutter in your drawer.
And in many cases the manufacturer actually believes their own hype,
telling us about the "new, improved" product.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/7/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
Yesterday, once again, I had to contact Bill White to ask him why I was
getting a periodic repetitive message while reading articles and pressing
the OK button which made it disappear, worked only temporarily. Eventually,
he found a popup blocker with malware that had to be removed. Then I talked
about how Jaws periodically goes silent while I'm reading an article and in
order to fix that, I need to alt tab away from, and then back to the
article. He said that's just Jaws losing focus and it began several upgrades
ago and can't be fixed. And then we began talking about how Jaws has
deteriorated as they keep piling on more and more features so it can't do
its basic functions efficiently anymore. That's human greed. Every system
becomes overloaded until it's ready to collapse. I'd like to be able to go
back to windows XP and Jaws 12. My son-in-law has been resisting getting a
new Android phone. His old phone died and he lost all his data, which was
very serious because his work data was on it. Debbie had gotten a new phone
so he took her old phone. But now, after several months, that phone was also
dying. A new phone costs $1,000. But there was a promotion, $300 off.
However, this required getting a new family plan which costs $10 more a
month, forever. Google sweetens the deal by giving them access to a bunch of
TV channels that stream. They already have about 5 TV's in their house.
Melanie is on their plan so now she can have access to all the new junk too.
And remember, these TV channels are the only source of news and information
that they use. And we wonder why our country is in the state it's in. I'd
suggest that you read the column by Glen Greenwald that I just posted. It's
another source of information indicating that all our alternative sources of
news and information are being removed, a little at a time.
Miriam
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Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2021 12:05 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: link to video
I like Max. so I tried the link, and was told I should clean my cach and
cookies.
Sorry Max, another time.
Actually I am having a techy friend work with me next week, seeing what I
need to do, and how much it will cost, to crawl out of my cave into the real
world.
I know it won't be cheap, I'm still using JAWS 17, and windows 7. Oh my, I
did it all to myself.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/6/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Max Blumenthal, short video on Game StopI like Max. so I tried the link, and was told I should clean my cach and
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/29/reddit-rebellion-amateur-investors-
wall-s
treet/
cookies.
Sorry Max, another time.
Actually I am having a techy friend work with me next week, seeing what I
need to do, and how much it will cost, to crawl out of my cave into the real
world.
I know it won't be cheap, I'm still using JAWS 177, and windows 7. Oh my, I
did it all to myself.
Carl Jarvis