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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: 9 Jun 2025 18:13:11 GMT
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 09:38:35 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> GNOME Team was actually completely forthcoming about this, at the time:
> they, like MS, had bought entirely into the tech-press narrative of the
> Glorious Tablet Future, where desktops and laptops would vanish in a
> Cloud of pixie dust and the mouse would be obsolete as everyone used
> touchscreens for everything and shut up "gorilla arm" totally isn't a
> thing so there (remember that? Remember how they were also adamant that
> voice control and dictation would obsolete the keyboard for about 15
> minutes, before some non-idiot pointed out that whole offices full of
> people yakking at their computer all day would result in an epidemic of
> workplace shootings?)

A friend was a quadriplegic but had enough arm control that he could type 
using splints that took regular pencils. He went through a lot of pencils 
as the erasers wore down. I asked why he didn't use speech to text and he 
mentioned the possibility of getting shot.

Microsoft has a text to speech API that I played around with but it never 
got any traction. Same deal, computers chattering away in a dispatch 
center might lead to mayhem.

I recently bought an Amazfit Active 2 fitness device. By default it would 
tell you when you started an activity, when you went a mile, and give a 
summary when you finished. First project was figuring out how to shut it 
up.

I might talk to the cat but I'll be damned if I'll talk to Alexa or 
anything similar.