Hi everyone, While my subject line may be light, my words of praise run deep and sincere..and a bit hard to articulate for being weepy. For better or worse I spend lots of time apologizing for the complexity that is my body experience, not being disabled according to stereotype. Not even being consistently disabled for moment to moment. Prior to the surgical stroke i experienced, I used to apologize, but in the other direction, still stereotypes of course, about sight loss and intelligence and culture and so forth. In 1988 when the state rehab system, <Arkansas> refused to buy me a computer for law school, I sang for it instead..literary. put on a concert, raised the funds with help and bought the things I needed. it was the first, and the last computer I ever got off the shelf, because when there was a problem, the computer store lost almost all of my data. After then, I knew the insides of machines very well, but as life and work and so forth got busier I started to find other people. That was fine at first, but once said surgical stroke made communicating less conventional, more often then not I would find those computer types who decided my disability experiences mean I am incapable of learning understanding or knowing about machines, or worse yet that what i need was impossible, usually followed with the suggestion I use equipment physically impossible for me to use instead. Fast forward to Sir. Lenn. In the past year and a half, I have lost more computers than the roughly 35 years prior. Due to hydro in my apartment, or not being heard about moving items..my reading machines, or well meaning people more interested in bluffing their way through and showing off, or less well meaning people deciding I need not be heard, because they know more about my needs, they are the able bodied person after all. In two hours, almost to the minute, Sir Lennhart, with a great deal of patience and humor and likely skills years in the making, did open heart computer surgery on my machines. I use plurals, because apparently being a hardware hoarder is a very wise thing indeed. He added a driver line giving me cd Ron access for the first time since..at least 2019 when my computer from two machine's back had a hardware crash, hmm still need to recover that data. He changed my power supply..twice...that might have been once, but even I forgot just where which older machine was sitting..I have three of them laughs. He insured I had quality rich functional speech suitable for more than 30 screen readers across operating systems, without likely knowing this, simply because he kindly answered questions while including my input. Most amazingly enough on top of all that? He gave me a first time computer experience, placing the heart of my computer, the CPU, into my hand..I have never held one before. as a bonus Lenn got some information, another computer knight, Sir Ron, needs for the back door Ron is providing me to my gmail account. The results are a machine that is quiet, with a fully functional DOS USB driver again, and cd rom function, and a working power supply. My computer no longer vibrates the desk, or overheats, or smells of smoke. I can turn it off, or leave it on..I may even for the first time in many years add speech to the boot process.. There is another thread going about why Linux is not more popular. Personally? I feel part of that is because so few get a chance to experience the magic that can be a Linux community at its best. when someone like sir. Lenn draws upon little details discovered, likely over many a project based on the kind of personal connection you have to gain for running understanding, and fully using Linux. The pieces, power supply and heart now in this computer came from a machine built by another Linux user, and if memory served, a person Colin a third Linux soul, directed me to, in 2010 or so. That computer was still working until this year, now living on in my newly created little wonder. I am speechless with appreciation for this community, your brilliance, wonderful questions, capacitor to help me even when what I do with my machines is unique. Deeply thankful for the ways you have chosen to let Linux keep both your skills sharp, and your imaginations vibrant rich and creative. Each of you teach me with your posts, your questions and your own challenges. best of all at this moment though, because you continue to build a community rooted in Linux, with its many paths to the surprising, I miraculously connected with sir. lenn. Who in two hours did what I had been told was impossible. never doubt the terrific gift that is this Linux community, the value of what you choose to learn with your own projects, the importance of each conversation head here. One never knows when the slightest bit of wisdom might help a person connect the outside world, do their job..or play computer monopoly once again. With profound appreciation, Karen Lewellen