new technology for me

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I will be buying cases and heat sinks for these pi units since that will
make them more able to travel somewhat safely.  The Micro-sd, is that a
memory card the pi uses for its hard drive?

Thanks much for this information and I will be checking out
raspberryvi.org out too.

On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:02:34
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: new technology for me
>
> For setting up a basic command-line system with speech, all you really
> need aside from the board itself is a microSD, power supply,
> earphones/speaker to plug into the 3.5 mm audio jack, and a USB
> keyboard for input. Granted, you might want to put the board in a case
> and install some heat sinks, and a wired internet connection might be
> useful if you don't have a wpasupplicant.conf you can just drop into
> /etc/wpasupplicant. Even if you're doing a sighted setup, a HDMI
> display for the Pi is optional as initial setup can be done from a
> desktop machine via ssh(you'll need to put a blank text file named ssh
> in the root of the SD card's boot partition to enable this).
>
> As for the actual setup, there's a few choices of both distro and what
> to use for accessibility. My current Pi setup uses Raspbian with
> piespeakup, but I hear the broken alsa driver that made espeakup
> stutter to the point of uselessness has been fixed, I've heard of
> people having success with the Fenrir screen reader, the Arch and
> Slackware distros, and F123 produces images based on Arch that have
> Fenrir running as the default. There's also been reports of getting
> Orca running, though most reports I've read say Orca and a full
> graphical desktop environment slow the Pi down too much, though most
> tests have used Gnome or Mate, so the jury is out on lighter options.
>
> That said, you might want to cheack out raspberryvi.org and its
> associated mailing list as their focus is on blind accessibility on
> the Pi specifically.
>
> On 3/25/19, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I am interested in buying two raspberry kits and installing linux on both
> > of them so the linux will talk.  I have access to Walmart and the walmart
> > app too.  My problem is I've never had firsthand contact with raspberry pi
> > technology.  One of these raspberry pi kits will be a gift for a good
> > friend and he definitely needs his raspberry pi to talk since all he can
> > do with his vision is to see light.  I got interested in doing this since
> > while trying to help him install slint he shut his computer down at the
> > wrong time and now all that shows up is grub-rescue when the computer
> > boots and the other drives only light up temporarily.  I did not tell him
> > to shut the system down, this was something he did on his own.  I figure
> > if he has a Pi he can use to connect to his wi-fi he can at least get out
> > onto the internet with it.
> > So, what I need to know is what to buy so all of this will work
> > sceamlessly once all of the installation and configuration is finished.
> > Both of us have peripherals which may or may not work with the kit.
> >
> >
> >
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