My daily driver is a thinkpad X200 that I librebooted myself.
I kid you not when I say that I derive immense pleasure from using it. Apart from a few (equally freedom respecting) devices I find, I literally never feel like I'm wanting for anything.
I can't recommend it enough. I don't have the words.
A distant friend in college was completely blind; an exceptional student that you'd catch studying with his screenreader. I asked him about his experience of it; he was using a mac, and they apparently have some pretty good integrated features for that type of use. He was getting some help with having some material transcribed so he could read it. I wanted to try something like it, but proprietary software is was the table.
To that end, I used Emacspeak for a couple of weeks earlier last year, to extend the range of my interface with the computer. It didn't stick, but I'm about to give it another go soon. Audio cues are absolutely superior to visual ones in some contexts, and emacspeak is definitely amazing.
Humans have mastered so many instruments with esoteric interface designs constrained by physics (I'm imagining mostly musical ones, but I'm sure there's others), but HCI innovation since the keyboard and mouse has been basically 0. Visual interfaces (from text) were a gigantic leap forward, but made tasks trivial from the command line hard (can't pipe a visual interface), and tasks impossible from the command line easy (drawing a freehand line on screen). Touchscreens were a great invention, but their real advantage is their versatility. They suck along so many other important measures like accuracy, tactile feedback, speed of inputs, multiple inputs etc (try typing with your eyes closed on your actual keyboard vs cellphone), yet plague all devices no matter their purpose (touchscreens for important hardware inside a vehicle/heavy-machine? Fuck you.)
Interface design (for the masses) is stagnant/worse with every year. "Best to stick to an impotent interface that's understood, easy to control and monetize."
All of these, and the author's original problem with their prosthetic are a symptom of the plague of spectacle over substance.
Cataclysm DDA is probably my favourite, but I don't like playing more than a single character at a time, and when I get too far into the endgame, I get bored with it, I usually just kill my character in some ludicrous/stupid way.
That's usually when I play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. I think the recent versions are all garbage (I guess there's some pitfalls to democratized game-development), I play strictly version 23.0.
Between these two games, all my of roguelike itches are scratched. I'd say CDDA is sort of like single-player only Dwarf Fortress, and DCSS is Rogue/Angband distilled.
FTL is an INCREDIBLE game, but I've given it up cause it's proprietary software.
I also played some Tales of Maj'Eyal, but imo it's too combat focused for what RP elements are in it.
I've beaten all of these games, and DCSS around 20 times.
I recommend them all thoroughly.
Honorable Mentions:
1) Shattered PD for mobile
2) Slay the Spire
I read this paper in 2017, I thought it might serve as an interesting starting point for discussion.
I'm young, and living in a place where being a software engineer pays only marginally better than other professions. I haven't managed to gather the land/capital that I think I need to cope with the changes I believe are coming.
For the last couple of days, I've been trying to get a static website up using hugo (emacs + ox-hugo), and I've been using tramp to ssh into the machine and do my work.
Tramp is literally magic. It just puts the right text into your buffer, where all the tools you use on your machine are just available by default. Even org exports and the like behave as expected, outputting the resultant file into the correct dir on the remote machine.
I've been using emacs as a <50IQ user for about a year now. I've yet to write a single line of Elisp (apart from use-package declarations). It's awesome!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/
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