shortwavesurfer

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2026-08-27 02:17:35 UTC

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I have touched the fingerprint reader on accident with the incorrect finger when picking the device up or something because it's on the side with the power button, but I have never had an issue where I've meant to unlock my device with the correct finger and used the wrong finger instead.
I have used the wrong finger on purpose in order to press the power button in order to bring up my lock screen without actually unlocking the phone to see the time or whatever, though so perhaps a 3 strikes your out rule would be best where if you hit the fingerprint reader with the wrong finger 3 times in a row it would then wipe
Let's say my pointer finger is the registered finger for the reader. If I want to unlock my phone, I'll just touch the fingerprint reader with my pointer finger and the phone is unlocked. If I wanted to say interact with a running media file, or check the time, I would deliberately press the power button with my middle finger, that way it registers it as a press to bring up the lock screen, but does not unlock the phone. And then, when I want into the phone next time, I would touch the fingerprint reader with my pointer finger to unlock it. If I am picking my phone up off of a table, for example, and my ring finger just happens to touch the fingerprint reader, it's obviously not going to recognize, and then once I get the phone in my hand properly, I would use my pointer finger to unlock it.
This is why I think perhaps a three-time rule might work, where if you deliberately touch the fingerprint reader three times within a short period of time with the incorrect finger, it would initiate a wipe.
I'm thinking maybe like within 10 seconds.

2026-08-08 01:38:37 UTC

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From what I could tell of the video, that was Touch and Explore, not swipes.

2026-08-07 11:09:18 UTC

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So that does work? According to what I understood from the developer, that did not work.

2026-08-06 22:55:40 UTC

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Sure, it has touch and explore, but a blind person is also going to need swipe navigation between elements.

2026-07-25 21:24:58 UTC

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Darn thing, the heck man.
Well, I hope my description was at least good enough so that you could properly replicate it.
If you happen to have an Android device lying around, you can go to Settings, Accessibility, and then TalkBack Screen Reader, and turn it on, and give it a try. And you will see what I mean that way.

2026-07-25 01:57:42 UTC

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I don't know if this will help or not, but here is a video of me using my Android device in the way I mentioned, and I have it set so that you should be able to see where I touched on the display.
[https://files.catbox.moe/qo7unk.mp4](https://files.catbox.moe/qo7unk.mp4)
Edit: A flick from left to right is the equivalent of using the tab key on your PC, and a flick from right to left is the equivalent of using shift+tab.

2026-07-25 01:50:15 UTC

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The flick can be from anywhere on the screen to anywhere else on the screen as long as it is from right to left or from left to right.
As an example, when you tapped the Wi-Fi icon, you would be able to swipe from left to right, anywhere on the screen, and the next thing announced would be whatever element came next, which I think was mobile data, but I'm not certain of that.
The flick has to be able to be done from anywhere on screen as a blind user is not going to know where the element is visually on the display. Most of the time.

2026-07-25 01:13:50 UTC

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Holy shit, this is amazing. As a blind screen reader user myself, thank you.
I do have one question, though. I noticed that you were doing taps on the screen in order to see what element was underneath it. What happens if you do a flick from, say, left to right or right to left, as that is how a lot of screen reader users navigate?
The way it works on other operating systems is that a quick flick to the right or left will read the next element or the previous element on the screen.
Edit: This just took Linux Mobile from a "maybe one day I can use this" to a "i could use this now" thing.
I've been thinking about making my next phone a post-market OS device, and now that desire just increased exponentially, thanks to this post.

2026-04-21 12:02:32 UTC

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It was one of those Neo Banks called Chime.

2026-04-21 01:30:49 UTC

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At this point I refused to use a bank app and I actually switched banks because my bank wouldn't allow me to use a web browser.

2026-03-03 00:06:34 UTC

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I am a T-Mobile user, so does it work on the T-Mobile network? I can't remember if Google Fi is a T-Mobile MVNO at this point or not. Though to be fair, if I was to get that device, I would be putting LineageOS on it because I honestly hate EOS with their iOS-like design and the fact that it has the Micro-G services on it.

2026-01-28 01:30:46 UTC

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Don't worry, none of your extortion money was used to buy that Bitcoin. It was stolen from people. That's all the government is really good for anyhow is stealing from people.

2025-11-12 18:03:34 UTC

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If I understand correctly, Fairphone themselves are going to be bringing their products to the United States, starting with their earbuds, not the phone yet, but as said, you can get it still from their partner, but I believe they at some point should have their phone as well available here.

2025-09-05 23:44:11 UTC

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What would make me really happy is if viewership across YouTube entirely was down because people were getting fed up with YouTube and shifting to alternatives.

2025-09-03 07:53:37 UTC

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As long as you don't install Google Play services on them, no it would not.

2025-08-03 16:33:49 UTC

I'm doing my best to continue using Firefox, but it's becoming incredibly annoying, and I'm seriously at my wit's end and just about to give up on it permanently.
I've noticed during video calls it causes my computer to completely freeze up and require a reboot sometimes.
And on my phone, sometimes when I'm reading, it will just make my screen completely stop responding to me and I have to force reboot my phone in order to fix it.
I know that Gecko is the only other web engine option to fight Chromium's Blink, but I'm seriously just about fed up enough with Firefox to say fuck it.
Servo or ladybird may be the only real hope left.