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Noel Romey

@ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy

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Accessibility warrior. I’m a dad, ham radio operator, book addict. I love meeting people and having great conversations [bridged from fwoof.space/@ner on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

My wife apparently has a braille lite that won't turn on. I told her that battery probably needs to be replaced. Suppose it also could be a dead eprom, but does batteries plus still do battery pack rebuilds?

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Today, I feel pretty terrible. Not sure why. It wasn't an easy day yesterday, probably all part of it. Have to wait until late october to meet with my doctor.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I switched to using Chrome mainly because Safari made the Wandering Inn web reader do some whacky stuff. Now it's exactly the opposite in 27, safari is again sane and Safari behaves. Very odd indeed.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Using object navigation in NVDA is routine for me, but in teaching my wife how to do it, I remember how odd it was when I learned. I just wish she didn't have to learn in a terribly designed IEP system which not only requires NVDA, but also requires that you use Firefox to be able to even see […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I realized, almost at the point where it was too late that I had severely under designed a flagship feature which hasn't felt right for a week or more. If I'd read my design documentation a few days after I'd written it in the dead of night in the midst of a terrible case of insomnia. The […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I'm amused as to many people have reposted my post bitching about JAWS. I wonder how many sociologists have studied or will study what topics get re-posted. I bet weird stuff gets boosted where normal, life changing / news worthy posts remain meh. As for me, not sure why a rant was so popular […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Still reading Fires of December. To anyone engrossed in this brilliant story, please see Chapter 23. I have had a terrible week. This chapter with Brandon Sanderson of all people (we are both Mormon you see and we're not supposed to or known for swearing) will tell you why it's important not to […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I often power through a Duolingo Spanish unit to get the point and maybe pick up a new word or two. The last unit that I skipped by essentially testing out of it was all about telling a story. That meant talking about sheep, kings, queens, arings, castles, and other happy slappy fairy tale crap […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[Rant against jaws] I can now say, I really hate JAWS. I installed some zoom scripts which I had previously purchased. In the middle of the meeting, for some reason, scripts kept asking me to activate. I manually deleted the scripts because I couldn't uninstall them. My issue isn't with the […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I've been doing lots of plumbing drudge work this week with my application. I keep telling myself this is all and will all be worth it but I also want to push through to get features that I'll enjoy using when my antennas are up and functional.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I got a scam call from "captcha" I kid you not. If I noted that I'd made changes to my account I was to end the call. Otherwise press 1.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

They've broken spotify's ability in ios 26 to play or click on album views. Awesome

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I was hoping for a quick fix from the oral surgeon but yesterday, I found out that (a) bone is visible again and (B) I'm guessing that I've got another damn jaw surgery coming up. Not happy, at all.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I woke up this evening after an earlier nap, waking up, I sword that it was Thursday and that it wasn't a problem taht I had slept in until 6. Then I was even mopre confused when it wasn't Thursday like I thought it should be. It's all clear to me now .... sadly I took my morning med this […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Fires of December by Brandon Sanderson came out for backers a week or so ago. Sadly, I missed it until now. Loaded the M4B into bookplayer and sure am enjoying it. I have another of his I haven't read yet too and more works to come. What a dude.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you're not watching Trump's UN speech, here's the summary: "ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME"

Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

From the guy who breaks shit all the time, my name is Noel Romey and I approve this message, because even though my bones break and shit, they are abnormal and therefore really really really cool. www.youtube.com/shorts/HfOc67AOQjI?…

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Ok Dot APP people, I love your quaint password confirmation thing within the app that's straight out of the 1990s and doesn't work. Kindly let me freaking update this jerk, thank you.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@BorrisInABox Well dang, didn't hear that re: teh shari. I'll pay you $50 for the shari, mine's antenna thing is broke which is why ... brokey-broke.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

It's normal, in our house, we yell in different languages at our phones and alternatively curse Duolingo's stupidity, I've learned a lot.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Finally got access to siri AI today. It is pretty much a standard LLM, but it's nice to have it all integrated.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117… Wait what, the forward "brewer" is leaving? They have brewers on board these little aircraft? Europe is odd.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I have a recliner that plugs in to recline and sit up. Got it because about eight years ago I broke my upper arm and couldn't easily recline. Awesome, plug in chair, bzzzzzzt ... ahhh. Six months later, bzz bzz bzz bz, damnit ... B, come on you jerk. I've been fiddling with the power supply to […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

There is such a large hole in my face that I sound really embarrassing when I talk, so much so that I'm (a) thinking about using my constructed voice from last year, and (B) just not talking. Check this out.g i’ve never attached an audio file like this before using Mona , but I hope it doesn’t […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Friends who use ios 27 and voiceover. I do not see this listed in the applevis entry for recognized bugs, but maybe I'm an idiot. I've been trying to change the order of roter items by tapping to drag. It tells me to tap and hold, wait for the sound and then move things, something I've done […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

It is done and it was way more involved than he expected. Bone was so hard that they basically had to pulverize the tooth. He said the wound was large and it would take a while to heal. Ended up adding the rest of the week as time off, thank goodness we have that

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

It's another shoot me day here in Memphis for me. At a dentist appt on Monday, he determined that I have a severely infected molar. It's being removed this morning and we are hoping that once it's gone my swelling should go down. I am me though, and if the infection has spread to the bone, then […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Short story, I'm not sure if my ex's father or her attorney or whatever said something to her, but they will be able to fly to visit. For the best part of the year, she will make the trips funded by me to give her runway to get used to the issue, then, I'll take them this summer, then they will […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

In the "shoot me" department, it's mediation day. Pointless, stupid, expensive state mandated mediation before a judge can hear my "blind people like me can't fly in a plane with my kids" issue. Gonna be great. I took the rest of the day off, mainly because I don't know how long this S----t fest […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

In other news, I think we've flipped all the breakers and surge doobies that protected things like my radio, servers, basically all the expensive junk. Not sure what mlgw did, but I've never experienced a surge after an outage

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I do it support services for a small business, setup, why's my email not working, I forgot my password that kind of thing. Every day I field a call about google workspace, I start turning freaking grey I swear. I should start charging by the incident not on a monthly flat basis. For them though […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I use the my noise app and have done so for a ng time. Has hundreds of cool soundscapes and randomized music for noise masking and relaxation. The dev totally redesigned the app about a year ago and the accessibility was so bad that the dev was nice enough to point me to the old app which they […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I am not a hurricane again, Lowell is, stupid eloquence. Descending into Memphis now.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Something killed the internet back at home, probably just require reboot of the ont but annoying. Luckily, I had no real crazy work to do in the air. Descending into BNA and then on to Memphis. Cool thing is that we arrive before we left. Time travel on the cheap via time zone.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Man, my app continues to struggle with the scourge of flickering windows when it's just supposed to tell the user it's connecting and the progress to obtaining a reliable slice/slices. Gained some ground today, but damn, the more I test this thing the more nit picky things I find to fix. So this […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

How cute, I'm on Morristown Utilities Fibernet, probably a rural fiber utility and thanks to an old freaking Nest wifi at ye old airbnb, I get 86 megabits up and 64 megabits down, downright pedestrian in today's stats, blazing fast in 2005. Oh well, rim was reliable today and connected direct […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Help, my computer is making beepy noises and my radio's got a mind of its own. All required to run UI tests and verifications, and I've got a pretty beep saturated app. Fun times.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Another thing on tap for today, ent appointment to try and see if some gland under my eye's blocked cause having a perpetually swelled black eye is getting old real fast. Hopefully he can ultrasound my face and see something, and double hopefully, it won't require surgery without general […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

We are visiting with my kids this weekend in East Tennessee. My wife found a farm where you can hang out with fluffy cows, and everyone is oddly, kind of stoked to be having that as a plan. Highland cows are also apparently fluffy. I've pet other cows, so touching a fluffy one's going to create […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I have a pretty extensive testing set that makes sure that any fixes I make don't cause regressions or make it so that I can't or anyone can't use their radio. Since we're controlling hardware, it's always kind of crazy to hear my radio turn itself on, switch modes, frequencies etc. But I've […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I spent the day basically fixing crap that I broke in a set of fixes, one of which knocked someone's radio off of the wide area network. I should have caught it and it's a cautionary tale that one must always watch agents and look at the code that's produced.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I'm going to run a JAWS update on two machines simultaneously, I only recommend this if you're curious as to what that sounds like and if JAWS isn't your primary screen reader, that and I feel like living on the edge this morning.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

My autoupdate triggered today without my knowledge or permission. NER-OS version 4.7 issues itself at 2 pm today. This one's just labelled as "This release is designed to run more smoothly and keey you running better but a t lower clock rate. Please note: More resources are allocated to […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

I need to teach English for real. Today in the Lyft, rode with a Spanish speaking driver I'd had before. Today, we covered, have a nice day" and "take care". She tries so hard.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Learned something today. I had no idea CSharp was so damn picky about case until toady. Change teh case of the first word in a symbol and you're talking public, private etc. Insane man. I get it, but man get it wrong and you're in trouble.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Our side of the street survived a storm on Saturday without losing power except for like 10 minutes. We have a tree that blocks one road right in front of our house, and the city appears to be clearing it now. They're having to use some major equipment to do it for sure,, and I get the picture […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Behold, weather nerds, have a new weather word, to me that is. A haboob, yep that's how it's spelled withave a o o B on the end is basically a dust storm. Haboob it up friends. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haboob?wprov=…

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Also in other news, my migraine's gone away, too bad I had to sleep all day to get rid of it. Also, Claude's on the fritz, or was an hour ago.

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

RE: live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117… Dude, that would be an interesting flight to fly on. All lavs on the left side, "Sorry ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Please use the toilets on the right side of the aircraft, the lavs on the left side might […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I binge watched Plurabus today, mainly because it was only 9 episodes. I greatly enjoyed it, and the audio description was really well done. Without it, you'd be totally lost, probably at least half the series happened without dialog. A guy I know from radio actually narrated it which surprised […]

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