Venus

joined 1 year ago
[–] Venus 8 points 10 months ago

The simple version is that color blindness is caused by a physical problem with your eyes. If you don't have the parts required to detect certain colors then no glasses are going to fix that. They're just tinted glasses, the guy in the video tries three different pairs from different companies and all they do is tint the world a hideous shade of pink/magenta.

As someone else said above, what they can do is change your ability to differentiate between objects of slightly different colors. You might have a really hard time telling the difference between red and green, but find it easier to tell the difference between hideous vaguely reddish magenta and hideous vaguely greenish magenta. They don't grant you a greater range of color vision, but they do change what color is actually hitting your eyes. Mostly into hideous magenta.

FWIW the guy in the video points out that in his experience it generally made colors harder, not easier, to differentiate.

[–] Venus 2 points 1 year ago

What an awesome resource, I'll definitely have to contribute a bit to it.

[–] Venus 3 points 1 year ago

I wish you the very best of luck getting all the issues sorted out! I love hearing about accessibility in tech, whether that's in web browsing or gaming or whatever, so I'd love to regularly lurk your communities

[–] Venus 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I understand that the reddit one was created in a different time, but I feel like in 2023 there's no excuse for making the name of your general womens' forum overtly transphobic

[–] Venus 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Serve with mayonnaise.

ffs how did they make it so much worse on the very last line

[–] Venus 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only problem with having downvotes disabled is that users from other instances can still downvote stuff here. Downvotes on hexbear have been disabled for ages and I think it's generally a good thing, but only because they're disabled for everyone.

If/when we get the power to actually turn off downvotes instance-wide, definitely do that. So posts here can't be downvoted. But if some people are down voting it everyone should have the option.

[–] Venus 4 points 1 year ago

Aww, I love 'em. I don't get mantises in my vegetable garden. Just spiders and wasps mostly. Which are also great, but not quite as cool as a mantis.

[–] Venus 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm disappointed I missed the chance to get one of these. It seems like such a cool thing. I'm holding out hope that they'll revisit the idea someday.

[–] Venus 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never think in terms of monthly payments. Think in terms of how much money they're actually asking you for. That's how they get you to consider $50k solar panels lmao

[–] Venus 2 points 1 year ago

Food forest for sure, I just love the idea of having a lil patch of forest I can walk through and being like "oh shit I forgot I planted pumpkins over here, look at those, they're doing great."

[–] Venus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's, uh, literally the exact thing I explicitly said I don't want to do

[–] Venus 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't want the games all in my library. Retrodeck is one non-steam game addition in your library and then you launch it and all the emulated games are browsed through the retrodeck UI.

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