LPT: using a small vibrator on your sinuses can also help. It loosens the mucus up like shaking ketchup in a bottle.

I think folks just don’t read them. I use Connect and it shows usernames.

Yep, no shade on you, I just didn’t want the other person to think they’d heard back from the other other person.

Yes, how dare someone want to buy dog food without asking for help.

(the account you just replied to isn’t the account with the blind wife who uses prosthetics)

Yes, and anyone that buys these glasses to increase their independence is a predator, like the parent poster says. /s

The glasses seem like a better form factor than a hand-held phone, for the use case where you’re out and about and your hands are full, managing a service dog harness and/or cane, and trying to shop.

So, I guess you could mount your special phone for the blind on your chest or waist and have it talk to bone conductive headphones you’re wearing. And pick up whatever you’d like described and hold it in front of your chest/waist.

(There’s other options, the glasses just seem more convenient because they’re on your face.)

TBH, I’m also not sure what they meant. The only visual prostheses I know of are things like glass eyes. Maybe “prosthesis” is their term for eyeglasses or contact lenses?

edit: or there are neat things that integrate into your brain to give you sight. So maybe one of those?

A meter is about the length of a yardstick.

I’ve heard those sorts of glasses can be handy if you’re visually impaired and, say, clothes shopping. You can ask the glasses “hey, do these items match?”

Still creepy in the wild, but there are some valid use cases.

edit to add examples:

• https://youtube.com/shorts/XXzABpSE3TA The glasses give meh guidance for walking, but seem handy for reading a menu at a restaurant
• https://youtube.com/shorts/Vcatcvvkqac she demos shopping for dog treats and recording video when a car almost hits her

I hated that box. It was red and we’d just slump down in our chairs to look under it.

The thing that really helped my touch typing was playing MUDS: nothing like a textual goblin attacking you to encourage you to quickly type “kill goblin”.

We give our dog “red pill” (mostly potassium citrate) to make his urine more acidic, so he doesn’t get bladder stones. Sounds right to me.

It probably depends on the college. At my college, they’re real police. I’ve taken training alongside them (for example, a class on responding to a mental health crisis), and trainings they’ve taught (ex: deescalation).

The campus police want us to believe that they’re focused on keeping everyone safe while minimizing the students’ exposure to the legal system. They’re paid by the college and the college wants to retain students. They’ll send students to campus programs (counseling, primarily) instead of arresting them, that sort of thing. And there are problems on campus where you want some sort of security: walking back to your car at night after a creepy encounter with a patron, someone backs in to your car in the parking garage, someone overdosed in a bathroom.

I do believe them that they’re less harsh than the city police, but that’s not saying much.

I’ve taught more than one college student how to Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v.

imo, they should make 2 appointments, then. One for the physician and one, 15 minutes earlier, for the paperwork. Or at least give a heads up when you make the appointment, instead of 3 months later when they send your the reminder text.

I have to force myself to only arrive 15 minutes early because I’ve got the “don’t be late” thing where I’m usually a tad early.

Also, why give me a 1 pm appointment then, on the reminder message, tell me to get there 15 minutes early? I’ve got a schedule, too.

I’m also with an offline mini. I’m still happy with it, it does what I need it to do, but I’ll likely go with Prusa if it ever needs replacing.

It’s hard because the requests all come from different IPs, at least on my site. 185k “unique visitors” hit my site just yesterday, half from outside of North America, which is odd because my site is pretty local.

Oh! I thought you were suggesting a way to implement unitary WCs. As a way to handle the current bathroom issues, the current solution for my floor is one staff member has IBS and checks in on the restroom approximating their gender about once every 2 hours. The other floors and restrooms have their own idiosyncratic methods.

You’re devoting at least 15% of the library sysadmin’s time to bathroom monitoring (the bathrooms are a long walk from the offices) assuming the bathrooms are empty each hour. You’re also requiring them to knock on each locked bathroom door and get a response (currently you can check for people passed out by glancing at feet under stall doors). There’s also the overhead of figuring out who is on bathroom duty when the sysadmin is out sick or working from home.

The budget crunch is at the state level, the library itself has very little ability to change it. We’ve already reduced subscriptions and services and staff to a skeleton crew.