🏳️‍⚧️PepperTheVixen🇵🇸

🔞 Blind Gentoo nerd, tranarchist, poly, therian, Chicana, radical leftist, extraordinarily queer two-tailed vixen. I post and boost NSFW. Also I swear a lot

pronouns: she/her
website: https://pepperthevixen.com
GitHub: https://github.com/PepperTheVixen/

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2026-03-14 16:10:39 UTC

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Greetings from California! When I visited other parts of the US, I experienced culture shock that I was not prepared to experience within my own country. Even in the poorer parts of California, lifestyles are dramatically different. Head out to other states and you see even more of it. The US is 50 countries in a trench coat

2026-02-06 18:43:25 UTC

I really dislike the fact that, thanks to a combination of the quirks of computing history and sighted bias, modern computers have universal video drivers but not universal audio drivers. If it weren't for GRUB's init_tone feature and a PC buzzer speaker, I wouldn't even know if I had made it to the bootloader or not. If I need to modify something in the UEFI, like disabling secure boot or toggling PCIe bifurcation or adjusting CPU voltages, I have to rely on a sighted person. UEFI is too critical for me to rely on an AI for. If you want audio, you basically have to bring up an entire kernel and driver stack. If you're configuring your own Arch or Gentoo system and make it past initramfs/initrd, you better hope that ALSA selects the correct audio interface, otherwise you just won't have sound. I do really appreciate Debian for working around this. It'll bring up Speakup and eSpeak and play speech through the various audio interfaces in the live installer. You just hit enter when it plays through the one you can hear. Even better, it'll set up your system so that Orca automatically starts once you boot into your desktop environment after installation.
Y'know when your screen goes blank and you can't use your computer? That's what it's like for me when my audio breaks, except when video breaks people complain and the bug gets fixed. When audio breaks, you get silence and abled people telling you to be grateful for what you have and "other people have it worse".

2025-10-07 23:28:11 UTC

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me
#accessibility #AltText #blind

2025-09-29 17:48:22 UTC

Mario 64 any% is my favorite type of speedrun. Bowser creates all these elaborate worlds only for Mario to come barreling in and clobber him multiple times within a few minutes. How does Mario do it? Jumping backwards and literally traveling to a parallel universe by going so fast that he breaks physics.
Bowser: "You'll never reach me in the under- holy shit. Well uh, you'll never reach me in the fire s- oh my god. Well now I'm in the sky and you'll never get past the infi-how the hell did you get here without a single star?!"
Mario: "yahoo, yahoo, yah-ya-yaya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-yyyyyyyyy"