Thanks for asking!

Well, to give one example: It has a lot of work to do for blind/visually impaired people, at the very least. Most installers do not come with a screen reader or if it does then it often crashes (it also crashes a lot when installed I am told, at least Orca does). Pipewire, which is used primarily for sound, requires major messing with to be used between user sessions as it cares about security over accessibility, and thus is tied to user permissions, unless you modify it to be accessible, which is going to be difficult when things cannot be seen by the user.

There’s a lot of projects for which either patches or the technologies already exist to make things more accessible. However, sadly, a lot of devs prefer new features over fixing things to help make things more accessible. So a lot of people who need such fixes are left behind and thus cannot use linux.

I’m saying that a lot of people cannot switch because linux is not accessible enough, sadly.

Fair enough.

If only linux actually cared about accessibility.

Yeah. Though we have never used discord due to its lack of e2ee in text messages, requiring a phone number in some circumstances, that shitty nitro thing and personally because we don’t like group chats that much unless they are small and only people we already know.

Plus ioo it has already enshitified with an LLM, and other things that cannot be turned off.

I used it when it was a seperate thing and it had frequent disconnects or at least moments where I couldn’t hear the other person.

However, I don’t tend to use Element for Matrix as it’s large, slow, bloated, has a bad UI and UX, and ironically despite all that doesn’t have all the features I want or need (such as spoilers, multi account in one app/window or easy custom emoji/stickers).

Not sure I’d count Element Call as ‘between servers’ though, maybe it is but I will have to look into it to make sure.

Yes, hopefully they can solve it where so many haven’t. I’ve never met a federated messenger/protocol with reliable voice and video chat between servers as TURN is costly it seems and things like JAMI are ime unreliable, though that’s more distributed than federated.

I think that only centralised messengers are capable of providing such features reliably as I’ve yet to see any evidence to the contrary.

They are working on the client at the moment and the server software work will be worked on when that is done, as currently it’s not working for self hosting or something.

Someone is creating a discord alternative: https://revolt.chat/

It always struck me as odd that there is no way to give to firefox given that anybody can give to thunderbird directly.

Thanks so much! 🙂

Oh, awesome! We will do it when out and about then.

Can this be done offline on Android devices and uploaded later? We ask because we currently have no data on our phone and it would be useful to edit when out, and then upload when we get back home.

Is there any way to do this on iDevices?

Yep, all except for two: Crumpet and our Bank app. We can be pretty sure of this as we run CalyxOS and we have too many apps to list otherwise as everything on our ‘dock’ is in folders.

Thanks for the information. We agree with the first commenter though, more people and projects should move away from GitHub and to CodeBerg or their own ForgeJo instance.

Yes, the ads are inserted dynamically. I have found, however, in the past that if you use a VPN to download them and set your region to Switzerland for some reason they don’t get inserted. You will have to listen to empty silence during the length of time an ad would usually play but that’s better than the ads.

Hopefully this trick still works, if not try a different region or I guess it doesn’t work any more.

Yup, that anger is justified.

They need to stop taking things that aren’t theirs.

No. Internet ‘culture’ stole them from black people. to make themselves look ‘cool’ without having any connection to or care for the actual meaning of the words from a language that isn’t theirs whilst not caring about or for the people who actually created it.

White people have historically and continue to do this and it needs to stop, not everything is for the taking.

Cultural exchange happens when things are freely given, not taken and black people keep pointing out that it and so much more has been taken from them whilst they are left with little to show for it whilst white people continue to use it for fame, power and money.

Please read the linked mastodon thread. Thank you.