What does this matter for blind people who want to use Linux?
All that matters to them is that it's super complicated and nobody wants to work with the tech to make screen readers work on Wayland.
To my knowledge, X11 didn't offer a comprehensive accessibility API either - there's no Linux equivalent of stuff like MS Active Accessibility or MSUIA on Linux.
Even back then Qt, GTK and everyone else offered their own API and screen readers needed to integrate with every single one - this didn't really change under Wayland, only the sandboxing makes certain operations harder, but the accessibility story on Linux is not great, and never was.
The standard was Extended Window Manager Hints [0].
Above X11, implemented by GTK and everyone else. Right.
However... Wayland makes it impossible to implement EWMH. Which means the enrire EMWH standard needs to be tossed, and everyone needs to make something new.
You can't even get the title of a window, under Wayland. That's private to that process tree.
Wayland requires accessibility be implemented at the application level, not the window manager. And thats guaranteed to make it always broken for a majority of use cases.
Jellyfin + Arr stack would take a couple of hours to setup and cost $10/month for a seedbox in Europe, but it's not as convenient as downloading an app and logging in.
If it was just one app or even two I would agree but there's :
- Netflix
- HBO max
- Sky Showtime
- Amazon Prime
- Apple TV+
- Disney+
This is just the stuff I watched this year.
Add in all the region locks, also not all the services having rights to local dubs despite them being available (more for children's stuff but still relevant, Disney+ is unusable for me because of this)
Netflix used to have a catalog worth keeping the subscription on, nowadays I maybe get to watch something once a quarter and keep it on for kids stuff.
Streaming is not convince anymore it's a shitshow.
I think a jellyfin/ARR/Seedbox setup is going to be the solution this year.
It boggles my mind why anyone would update anything in 2025. Most products are shipped with full feature set and then updates ensure enshittification. The security argument doesn't apply because classic hacks rarely happen, it's mostly social engineering.
I update my PC but I don't update my phone. Android is pretty much a complete product, and new updates just shuffle around the icons.
> Major changes in Android 16
> Battery icons are changed to landscape, with the percentage shown inside the icon
I think it boils down to how much you trust the software vendor to operate in good faith. My PC runs on Fedora and those people don't have any QA, but at least they do their honest best. My gaming handheld is on Bazzite and it's a similar situation. But Google has a proven record of enshittification of Android. I turned off TV software updates long ago because I only use it as a dumb screen so I don't understand what is there to update. My headphones yell at me "there's firmware update available" but I don't want to discover what new problems were introduced, current firmware works correctly. I have a smart robot that's fully cloud-operated and they recently introduced a completely new app. I'll keep using the old app as long as I can because I don't want to be their beta-tester and the old app works. I have smart light system and there's no reason to update anything because the functionality "use remote control to choose the desired light setup" mostly works with small glitches that aren't too annoying.
It's not a crime, but it's a foolish thing to do if you care about your data. Find vendors that aren't user hostile and still deliver security updates. For me that's various flavors of Linux (Debian, Fedora, arch, depending on my mood) and GrapheneOS on mobile.
This and many other issues.
- Trusting strangers with your children and hoping that they will teach your kids the same values that you have and aren't teaching them the opposite for 8 hours a day.
- Your children are exposed to other children that you have no control over during their most formative years, eg: kids from abusive households, drug addict parents, etc, of which the bullying is just the visible aspect.
Lots of bad parents out there that homeschool their kids, but I know some parents that put a lot of effort into making sure their kids are socializing and participating in social programs and have a community when homeschooling.
Same thing happened to farmers during the industrial revolution, same thing happened to horse drawn carriage drivers, same thing happened to accountants when Excel came along, mathmaticins, and on and on the list goes. Just part of human peogress.
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