How I Computer

Desktops, laptops, tablets, phones & docks

 Posted on November 30, 2024  |  20 minutes  |  4188 words  |   KemoNine

What’s Within? This post contains a breakdown of how I use a computer, laptop and phone. I’ve made some significant changes over the last few years due to worsening health hassles. Everything here has been iterated over time in order to create a compute environment that makes my life easier to manage. Especially when my my health hassles are at their worst. Feel free to borrow ideas, adapt things and generally use the contents of this post as you see fit. [Read More]
Tech  Accessibility  Opinion 

On Writing Digitally

 Posted on November 30, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  930 words  |   KemoNine

It would seem I’ve regained the ability to write more frequently and regularly despite my health hassles My Preference Normally I write posts for this blog by hand using a pen, Tomoe River paper and a clipboard. Sadly, my health hassles make this approach to writing very difficult and I do not have the capacity to write using analog methods regularly or reliably. Over the last few years I’ve had to patiently wait for windows when my health hassles doesn’t interfere with my writing. [Read More]
Writing  Tech  Analog  Accessibility  Opinion 

Android Tuning

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1556 words  |   KemoNine

Prelude I’ve been sitting on this post for awhile (read: months) as I wanted to write something longer, robust and full of detail how I worked through re-thinking how I engage with my portable compute devices like my Samsung Z Fold 4 and Boox Palma. Annoyingly the re-think of my Android devices triggered a much deeper re-think of how I approach ‘focused time’ and some other things. The bigger re-think is a super set of the information I hoped to put forth here and, frankly, I’d rather use my few spoons and energies to just write the ’total re-think of compute’ blog post. [Read More]
DailyLife  Tech  Accessibility 

Mobile and Cloud Gaming

 Posted on October 29, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  300 words  |   KemoNine

For a few years now I’ve been trying to make mobile and cloud gaming an option for me…. I started writing this post with examples, information and more. Instead I’m going to put it quite simply: the game industry needs a clue bat to the head, a complete gutting of leadership and massive studios broken up (lol @ that thought given the Microsoft/Activision/Blizzard deal being approved). I’ve spent years fighting the inaccessible nature of mobile, cloud and PC gaming. [Read More]
Opinion  Accessibility  Gaming 

Accessibility testing websites

 Posted on November 29, 2022  |  1 minutes  |  183 words  |   KemoNine

I’ve never hid the fact I try to make my ‘stuff’ accessible for folks. It’s A Thing for me and I’ve spent considerable time working on this blog to maximize it’s utility and accessibility. I should be in generally good shape overall and I wanted to share a few links for how I pulled this off. I ran ARC Toolkit (link) as my first pass with WAVE (link) as a second pass. [Read More]
Tech  Accessibility