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Just been blown away by how good Narrator and Live Captions are on Windows and it makes me even angrier that they aren’t just building an OS but an ad-and-AI infested surveillance nightmare. Mainly because it shows, yet again, what we could achieve in technology if everything wasn’t tied to a toxic business model and a suicidal system of perpetual growth with finite resources.
This should also shame the Linux folks (not volunteers, multi-billion/trillion-dollar corporations who profit from it).
Corporations that make billions from Linux treat accessibility like you treat the features that enable you to make billions from Linux challenge 2024.
(Go on, you don’t even have to really care about disabled people and you don’t even have to give up being sociopaths — it’s good PR. Win-win, assholes.)
There are 3 anti-corporate linux distros I know of, one is antiX lead by @anticapitalista https://antixlinux.com/
another is sabotage linux https://sabotage-linux.github.io/
the third is joborun https://joborun.neocities.org/
there may be more but few as dedicated
@aral Yep I enjoyed Linux for awhile but I've been all the way done with it for a long time now. Now I'm a huge closed-source iOS + Mac OS + Windows person as these are the ones that can be scaled for accessibility.