Innosearch is good because of the humans, not the AI

Innosearch is an accessible shopping solution, powered by AI. But it's the human support that makes it worthwhile.

If you follow me on the fediverse, you may have scene my thread about trying innosearch. They've done a lot of marketing to the blindness community, including promotions with audiogames, and events with Freedom Scientific. In trying them, I wanted to know three things:

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Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes

Call of Fate is a Chinese audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be accessible to both blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days.

Call of Fate is Prudence's second audio game released on Android and IOS widely available to the western English speaking market; the first was Ranger Legend. Unfortunately, I found Ranger Legend to be confusing, difficult, and slightly buggy. I'm pleased to say that despite some flaws, Call Of Fate is a much better outing!

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Review: The New Dawn by Icalos

readers who enjoyed the other four books in this series will find this is a satisfying conclusion, offering closure, and ending the journey nicely.

First off, this is book 5 in the Terminate The Other World series. As with most litrpg series, you can't just jump in; you need to start from book 1, and go in that order. If you've never read the series, I highly recommend it so long as you don't mind lengthy stat sheets in the first three books. The books are well written and funny, and Savy Des-Etages is easily one of my favourite audiobook narrators. In short, what happens when a cyborg terminator from a futuristic world is transported into a middle-ages world of stats and technology? Read all five books to find out!

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Review: The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG by Icalos

A positive review, recommending it to readers who enjoy litRPG or dungeon core especially.

You should have been warned by the name: "stuff" is a perfectly accurate representation of what this is. Thus far, we've had a review of a router, articles about AI, and thoughts on accessibility. There's probably a review of a meet thermometer coming up in the near future; obviously, the key to gaining readers is to publish random articles on subject matter so diverse that nobody in the world could care about all of it.

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Review: The Deco BE95 from the perspective of a voiceover user

My review of the Deco BE95 Wifi7 Mesh Router as a blind VoiceOver user.

I've been a happy customer of the Amplifi Alien routers since they were released in December 2019. However, they haven't received an upgrade since then; that means they have no support for Wifi 6E or Wifi 7. So when one of my alien units broke, I decided it was time to invest in an entirely new mesh system now that I own Wifi 7 capable devices. If you're looking for a used router on the cheap, though, I would strongly advise keeping an eye out for Amplifi Alien units. As early adopters like me begin to upgrade, I would expect to see a lot of perfectly good Wifi6 mesh router systems going for bargain prices. The app is decently accessible, they make sounds when they reboot or lose connection, and they're rock solid once you get them going. The thing that kills them is the fan. My routers go in a corner somewhere and get forgotten. So as the fans got clogged with dust, I failed to notice until the router overheated and stopped working. If you're a better owner than I am, the fan openings are obvious and easy to clean.

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