William Ingram (
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[text] @dr [open]
I'm feeling somewhat benevolent today.
After hearing a combination of your suggestions and complaints, I've decided to share.
You know, health of the community and all that.
For those of you still wildly inept with your tablets, just poke the letters that show up in a different color.
[Attached to this message, (a function not normally available for network posts,) is a link which yields several downloadable applications. Thankfully they're not malware or viruses, but hopefully helpful things, including:
- An app that translates text in images into spoken words. Good for the blind (or the illiterate). As it translates into the universal language of Beacon, it could also be used for deciphering foreign letters. Just snap a photo and you're good to go.
- A drawing app. Not as fancy as photoshop, but you can use your hands to make pretty pictures with a variety of colors and line weights.
- Related: a map app. It comes with a version of the current known map, which can be updated by the community. Shitposting will be promptly corrected. You stop that.
- And finally, a game: sudoku to be specific. Are you good at math and puzzles? Let's hope so, otherwise this will be pretty pointless for you. (This one's for you, Noctis.)
All four apps download together, so you're stuck with them even if you only wanted one. But the file isn't exactly labelled in anything other than random(?) numbers, so I suppose you wouldn't know that anyway.
Have fun, Beacon!]
After hearing a combination of your suggestions and complaints, I've decided to share.
You know, health of the community and all that.
For those of you still wildly inept with your tablets, just poke the letters that show up in a different color.
[Attached to this message, (a function not normally available for network posts,) is a link which yields several downloadable applications. Thankfully they're not malware or viruses, but hopefully helpful things, including:
- An app that translates text in images into spoken words. Good for the blind (or the illiterate). As it translates into the universal language of Beacon, it could also be used for deciphering foreign letters. Just snap a photo and you're good to go.
- A drawing app. Not as fancy as photoshop, but you can use your hands to make pretty pictures with a variety of colors and line weights.
- Related: a map app. It comes with a version of the current known map, which can be updated by the community. Shitposting will be promptly corrected. You stop that.
- And finally, a game: sudoku to be specific. Are you good at math and puzzles? Let's hope so, otherwise this will be pretty pointless for you. (This one's for you, Noctis.)
All four apps download together, so you're stuck with them even if you only wanted one. But the file isn't exactly labelled in anything other than random(?) numbers, so I suppose you wouldn't know that anyway.
Have fun, Beacon!]
@five
[ Area Grandpa Baffled By Apps ]
@dysmas :// text
are they not downloading for you?
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@dr
It's assistance.
They're new functions for the tablet.
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@Grandmaster
I suppose Sudoku isn't helpful, but it's appreciated.
@dr
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@viewfinder
asking for a friend
[ that friend is himself. ]
@dr
[In the future there is no Instagram. It truly is a hellscape.]
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@missprincessmary
@dr
You're welcome, Mary.
[It doesn't count if no one can see you smiling behind your tablet, does it?]
@subzero
@dr
[Read: and why should I care?]
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@drake; text
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@carnie
@dr
Planning some explorations, I assume?
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@rlutece
@dr
You're lucky I'm doing this at all, much less with imposed arbitrary deadlines.
I didn't make these things, you know.
I just upgrade them.
And I don't work for you.
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@mikaelson
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But really, your success affects mine. This serves a practical purpose as well.
[Don't think too highly of him, roomie.]
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@kingsknight
That isn't what I meant.
@dr
[Yeah.]
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[Not here, Ignis is just reading this and-]
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Also I was reading above, but you weren't the one that made the tablets then?
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You're doing better than 90% of your peers.
And no, I didn't make the tablets.
I received one when I arrived, same as you all.
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@ Scientia
[No complaints here, he actually loves Sudoku. And crosswords. And puzzles.]
P.S. Thank you for the map application. I am sure it will serve everyone well
@dr
What do you people have against math?
Math is the reason humanity was able to elevate itself from the Dark Ages. It's how we got space flight. It's how these tablets work.
[Excuse him while he rants.]
Enjoy your maps, I guess.
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I somehow missed this one earlier I'm gomen
that's ok ^^!
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@kingsknight
@Scientia
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1/2
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@priestess
as in: she figures out how to use the drawing app, but by some utter technological failure, proceeds to send him everything she draws, including: a lot of fire, a balding man who looks as if he is clenching his teeth, more fire (she's getting better), a goat-like creature with one horn, fire, and a screenshot of a game of sudoku where someone just put in numbers at random because she doesn't know how sudoku works. ]
@dr
Got a bit of a thing for fire, don't you?
Who's the bald guy?
⟪ voice ⟫
text -> audio
audio all the way
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@washington
I hate to ask for something else immediately, but if you still feel like coding the next thing we need is an alarm app. Without any cues as to what's day and night not everyone will be able to regulate their sleep long term. And people who don't keep to a schedule will start to lose their minds, I've seen it in space.
There's probably nothing I can do for you in exchange besides offer to be the one to scare people into using it, but if you think of something let me know?
@dr
But you bring up a good point.
No need to tell horror stories, I've got my own.
I grew up on a ship, and most of us got used to it, but you know, there's always a few.
Actually yes, do tell horror stories, just not to me.
This place causes enough madness as it is, we don't need a new breed of it.
Here's what you can do for me: what year are you from?
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just fyi i got really baffled by how he was doing that with his hand in your icon
oh no it's another guy's hand!!!
LOL I know it was just real confusing for a hot minute
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@dr
I was fairly sure you would, first deaths are rarely permanent here.
I already had a sort of personal map, the only thing I had to do was make it open for others to fiddle with.
That and make something to draw on it.
Fairly simple, to be honest.
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like a minute later
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@helsing
[ It was inevitable really. ]
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[It was, and he hates it.]
@dr
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@parker
I think we missed each other at the welcome party, so I've just got a quick question: in your experience, has anyone used the tablets to track or trace the location of anyone else here?
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I've taken apart my fair share of these things, and they don't seem to have any component for it.
Nothing that pings a signal to the others, and nothing to connect to a satellite.
Not that there are any satellites.
I suppose it could be possible to modify one to detect others, but I've never seen it done.
Here's my question: why do you want to know this?
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