Notices by Tobias Frisch (thejackimonster@wehavecookies.social)

@aral To be honest though, building a decentralized infrastructure is complicated on a technological level. However in the end I'd say it's worth it because you can not have true freedom without it.
So the complexity is not the reason to avoid this problem but to contribute to a solution of it.

@killyourfm @frameworkcomputer I think I would like to see some statistics about which competitive games can be played on Linux.

Because we already know that AAA games are not the major issue anymore. It's mostly related to anticheat whether a game works or not.

So it's probably a good idea to make games more popular that do not block Linux with anticheat and spread options for Linux gamers to play competitively.

@Uraael @killyourfm I think we really need to tackle the angle that staying with Windows implies Microsoft will always keep the option to shutdown your systems support and force you to buy new hardware, whether the responsible change is reasonable or arbitrary. So from the perspective of reliability, Microsoft has essentially started to sell E-waste as software by not offering an upgrade path. That makes any free software the more reliable option long term.

@inthehands Did you ever try using a Linux phone like the Librem 5 yet?

I mean it only asks for attention if I allow it and I'm okay with it to do so. Still it more seems like your concept of a tool for specialists.

@aral Have you seen this work here?
https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/18/update-on-newton-the-wayland-native-accessibility-project/

Not sure whether this gets merged already to be part of the release of GNOME 47. But it seems there have been changes to Orca for that release.

@cameronbosch @killyourfm What I did a few years ago is writing a script to plot progress in gaming via Proton from the official ProtonDB data that was put upstream openly on Github.

https://gitlab.com/TheJackiMonster/protondb-evalute

You can see from about 45% being playable in a decent way in 2019, we have come to around 73% of Windows games being playable now (in about 6 years).

I'm looking forward to the next 6 years if that's the speed we're going.

@aral @gnome What might be already quite usable is using piper as text to speech software and piping marked text into it via `wl-paste` using a hotkey. Can be a bit of hassle to setup but otherwise quite useful, I assume.