Maddy - ADHD-powered mess Mar 4
GrapheneOS: Talks shit about Fairphone and their 'ancient' hardware on socials, not considering them as an option at all.

Also GrapheneOS: Partners with Motorola/Lenovo despite more devices in their lineup having relatively mediocre chipsets than not.
Show threadnytpuMar 4
@maddy Oh yeah, GrapheneOS, the OS that's fine officially shipping sandboxed proprietary Google Play Services but will not ship a screen reader because it's GPLv3!
Show threadSenilMar 4
@nytpu @maddy wait, the fuck? they don't ship a screen reader? they're OK with being inaccessible???
Show threadGrapheneOSMar 6
@senil @nytpu @maddy We have a fork of the open source TalkBack which is maintained by a blind member of our community and is included in GrapheneOS. We've developed our own text-to-speech implementation meeting our requirements for better usability, out-of-the-box functionality, security and acceptable licensing. Our text-to-speech app is currently available for early testing and will be included in GrapheneOS soon. We then need to add support to our Setup Wizard for integrating TalkBack.
Show threadGrapheneOSMar 6
@senil @nytpu @maddy We were in the process of investigating a bunch of open source TTS apps and saw none of them supported the required Direct Boot support for TalkBack so we filed it as a feature request with several. It wasn't done with the intention of bundling them but rather because we wanted the apps to be improved. We found 1 open source TTS app which almost met our requirements (SherpaTTS) but it's too slow to be comfortably used with TalkBack so we decided to make our own and did.
Show threadChefExperte
@GrapheneOS @senil @nytpu @maddy I am using SherpaTTS myself for quite some time now, and besides the bad UI it works great for me. And for STT I use FUTO. But I'd be more than happy if you could ship a TTS & STT with the OS for better integration into the system.
Mar 10 at 11:09pmWeb