It’s not in English, it’s on WeChat and you need a Chinese phone number

im in a giant chinese chat server filled with trans people, and none of them are homeless. they are shocked when i tell them about how many homeless trans people are in my other american chat server. even the chinese trans people who are really bad off were given a plot of land by the government to live on (this trans person bought a camper trailer and hooked it up to electricity and plumbing on the government-given plot)

it is true that access to medical care is difficult for trans people in china, but their basic necessities are provided for as part of a universal grant to all of china’s population. plenty of trans people in america, including friends I know, have died of destitution and would have lived if they were given a plot of land to live off of.

I mean most things are just timeserver checks or poking GitHub/flathub/repo servers. Not something you can fully prevent if you value seamless functionality. Fedora has an opt out telemetry ping just to see how many people are using each version, but it comes part of when you run an update and ping their servers for that anyways. If you want it all removed and still have good functionality I really recommend secureblue

i remember engineers complaining when the graphics i used were like 2mb, but they included all graphics for the site. simpler days

a nightlight is my biggest peeve with it. also the lack of tabs and more dolphinesque features in its file browser. would be great to have file previews for less common files like .stls. runs great otherwise

i also think something like spectacle for kde but for cosmic would be fantastic, frankly spectacle is close to best in class. only competition it has is probably google’s android assistant with circle to search and other convenience features of that nature. and of course sharex on windows.

ive been considering writing up some accessibility software for cosmic, mostly stuff like screen readers, local llm based screen explainers (describes images automatically to a blind user) etc.

Can always just layer it with rpm-ostree install (.rpm file)