Is it actually Groypers? Or are Americans starting to just get angry at the fact that American companies continually keep laying off American workers and importing H1B workers to take their places due to the tax advantages? Is it that far fetched that millenials are going to start being angry at Indians and taking it out on Indians online when they can't find any jobs while companies continually keep outsourcing to India?
The entirety of H1B workers is like 500k jobs, which isn’t even half a percent of all jobs. Why is this such a big deal to Groypers and the like? I also disagree on tax advantages - what specifically are you referring to? H1B workers are paid more on average, not less, and they cost companies a lot in time, legal costs, and fees.
But besides that, once someone is a citizen I feel strongly they’re no different than the rest of us. Directing hateful supremacist comments at American citizens based on their skin color or religion or national origin is completely antithetical to our constitution and values.
It’s not “just 500K” jobs. It’s a pipeline of hiring managers who set up outsourcing to their home countries at the expense of Americans, and this doesn’t change when they naturalize. Immigration is a tool for supplementing the deficiencies of your home country with outside assistance. In America’s case, immigration has been weaponized by both the left and right. The left wants to settle the entire Global South in western countries at the expense of never building the countries where people have to immigrate from. The right scapegoats immigrants for whatever issue ails them. Should there be incentives for creating businesses in America that support work that gets outsourced? Definitely. Will that happen while there is a preserve incentive offered by H1Bs and biased hiring managers? Of course not.
What does this matter for blind people who want to use Linux?
All that matters to them is that it's super complicated and nobody wants to work with the tech to make screen readers work on Wayland.
To my knowledge, X11 didn't offer a comprehensive accessibility API either - there's no Linux equivalent of stuff like MS Active Accessibility or MSUIA on Linux.
Even back then Qt, GTK and everyone else offered their own API and screen readers needed to integrate with every single one - this didn't really change under Wayland, only the sandboxing makes certain operations harder, but the accessibility story on Linux is not great, and never was.
The standard was Extended Window Manager Hints [0].
Above X11, implemented by GTK and everyone else. Right.
However... Wayland makes it impossible to implement EWMH. Which means the enrire EMWH standard needs to be tossed, and everyone needs to make something new.
You can't even get the title of a window, under Wayland. That's private to that process tree.
Wayland requires accessibility be implemented at the application level, not the window manager. And thats guaranteed to make it always broken for a majority of use cases.
Jellyfin + Arr stack would take a couple of hours to setup and cost $10/month for a seedbox in Europe, but it's not as convenient as downloading an app and logging in.
If it was just one app or even two I would agree but there's :
- Netflix
- HBO max
- Sky Showtime
- Amazon Prime
- Apple TV+
- Disney+
This is just the stuff I watched this year.
Add in all the region locks, also not all the services having rights to local dubs despite them being available (more for children's stuff but still relevant, Disney+ is unusable for me because of this)
Netflix used to have a catalog worth keeping the subscription on, nowadays I maybe get to watch something once a quarter and keep it on for kids stuff.
Streaming is not convince anymore it's a shitshow.
I think a jellyfin/ARR/Seedbox setup is going to be the solution this year.
It boggles my mind why anyone would update anything in 2025. Most products are shipped with full feature set and then updates ensure enshittification. The security argument doesn't apply because classic hacks rarely happen, it's mostly social engineering.
I update my PC but I don't update my phone. Android is pretty much a complete product, and new updates just shuffle around the icons.
> Major changes in Android 16
> Battery icons are changed to landscape, with the percentage shown inside the icon
I think it boils down to how much you trust the software vendor to operate in good faith. My PC runs on Fedora and those people don't have any QA, but at least they do their honest best. My gaming handheld is on Bazzite and it's a similar situation. But Google has a proven record of enshittification of Android. I turned off TV software updates long ago because I only use it as a dumb screen so I don't understand what is there to update. My headphones yell at me "there's firmware update available" but I don't want to discover what new problems were introduced, current firmware works correctly. I have a smart robot that's fully cloud-operated and they recently introduced a completely new app. I'll keep using the old app as long as I can because I don't want to be their beta-tester and the old app works. I have smart light system and there's no reason to update anything because the functionality "use remote control to choose the desired light setup" mostly works with small glitches that aren't too annoying.
It's not a crime, but it's a foolish thing to do if you care about your data. Find vendors that aren't user hostile and still deliver security updates. For me that's various flavors of Linux (Debian, Fedora, arch, depending on my mood) and GrapheneOS on mobile.
This and many other issues.
- Trusting strangers with your children and hoping that they will teach your kids the same values that you have and aren't teaching them the opposite for 8 hours a day.
- Your children are exposed to other children that you have no control over during their most formative years, eg: kids from abusive households, drug addict parents, etc, of which the bullying is just the visible aspect.
Lots of bad parents out there that homeschool their kids, but I know some parents that put a lot of effort into making sure their kids are socializing and participating in social programs and have a community when homeschooling.
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