Politicians are surprisingly cheap.

I’m not making any claims, deliberately, because I don’t know inner workings of Chinese surveillance system. I’m just relaying an anecdote.

expresses frustration at caring and working a ton at (blind) accessibility only for people to say GNOME devs don’t care about (blind) accessibility

And my point is, you only get recognition if you succeed. You do get mangled star with “you tried” misspelled on it if you didn’t, of course, but also you get harsh comments like mine.

In around 2019 two of my colleagues were visiting China for business thing, one had Xiaomi phone and wasn’t asked to do anything, another had Samsung and his phone was searched.
It’s an anecdote, so make of it as you will.

Flashlight on android is actually a flash for camera, if you want to get proper access to the camera you kind of need this one.

That’s not what I’m saying, not at all, it’s sad you read it this way.
I’m saying that GNOME sucks balls right now, and the nobody can’t just say “but the developers are working really hard”, or “a bunch of people actually use it” and make it all suddenly go away. I’m not going to repeat all the specific points on why exactly it sucks, it’s not what the discussion is about, it’s not what my comment is about, and it’s not the what only available criticism is.

Everyone entitled to their opinion and their taste, and usually I am not this adamant about my personal preferences. I am just agitated by that notion some people for some reason have, that you’re not allowed to criticize stuff if it’s free and people totally work hard on it you guys. Pouring river water into your socks is free and requires effort, it doesn’t make it good or immune to criticism.

Remember kids, if someone doesn’t like the shit you like, it’s actually because they’re narcissistic actually.

Tbat would be baaaad. So bad.

They might care when their os showing the same problems it did 30 years ago

Yeah, probably not. But the idea that Windows won because of how great it was just doesn’t hold up

I don’t think you remember how insanely terrible Windows was in the 90s.

Nah, I have worked in IT education and in helpdesk. Average user doesn’t have a better time getting into Microsoft products, it’s not easier for them than FOSS. The reason for Windows domination is Microsoft spending money and lobbying power to put it in front of every user.

Console experience is better for all kinds of disabilities. Text is the best instrument to convey info we have. For most of the accessibility issues the best thing you can do is to present text on a screen, and expect text as input.

The measurement of success isn’t the hours put into it. I will continue to bash Gnome because no matter how much hours the devs put and no matter how much they believe they know better, their products sucks all kinds of balls, and that kind of it. I don’t have any underlying agenda or double meaning behind it. The product is shit. You made a lot of effort and put a lot of labour in it. This, unfortunately, means you put a lot of labour into shit.

EU doesn’t have an immigration crisis, EU has right wing rasict ass neonazi assholes grifters problems, who are using racism and stupidity to gain power. It absolutely doesn’t correlate to anything in reality. You can’t convince those who are afraid of immigrants that not making people into refugees will help. They either hate poor non-white people and happy about the whole war situation, or they’re stupid and don’t have grasp on reality, they were said they refugees are the problem so they accepted it without knowing what that means.
People who oppose human suffering don’t see immigration as a problem.

In theory, yes. In practice, nobody can afford to strike.

Silly liberals, your strategy of standing on the streets pales in comparison with my strategy of sitting at home.

So you want them what, starve to death now?