The state of Linux accessibility in 2025. This started out as a rant but became a series. Please feel free to leave feedback, comments, and subscribe via rss or email for more stuff as I release it. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/
fireborn.mataroa.blogI Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn
@fireborn wait - THAT'S what brltty is for? I recently messed around with an esp32 dev board and I couldn't flash it. The documentation just told me to disable or uninstall brltty. This worked, so I didn't question it further then. Now it sounds like this was similar to the docs telling me to just shut off all my monitors?
@ecori Yes. brltty is for braille displays. Unfortunately, it eats your serial ports for breakfast. So if you want to program an ESP32 or are a ham radio operator and want to change your radio firmware *and* use brltty, I hope you have time to right a million and one udev rules.
@fireborn obviously not telling you anything new but jfc that should not be an accepted status quo