Every time I pull out my BrailleNote Touch Plus, I’m reminded of how pitifully stagnated blindness-related products are compared to mainstream systems. Turns out I can no longer install Box because HumanWare has backed themselves into a corner and will not be updating past Android 8.1. This would not be a big deal… except for the fact that it’s the only #Braille display I have at the moment, and literally every BRF file I need at Eastman is stored in Box.
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@mastoblind @main Today, I learned that the BrailleNote Touch Plus also does not support drives formatted as exFAT. Why is this a big deal, you ask? Because the external drive which holds a synchronized copy of my Box folder is formatted as exFAT, and I can’t reformat it as FAT32 without fiddling around in Powershell. Wonderful. Just wonderful. /s
PS: The extreme irony is that the Mantis Q40, which is also manufactured by Humanware, handles this drive with no problems whatsoever.
@NoahCarver @mastoblind @main Wait, it doesn’t support XFAT? Why not? Android 4.4+ supports XFAT. I guess they block them at an OEM level, but that still begs the question, why? KeyWord and such should never have to directly interface with those drivers. The more and more time that goes on, the more tempted I am to attempt to flash a custom rom on mine.
@TheQuinbox @mastoblind @main Unfortunately, I do not have the answers. All I know is that I cannot plug-in an exfat drive. When I plug it in, I’m prompted to format it as fat 32.