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@neia Someday someone will write a Rust GUI app that respects the system window and widget theming and on that day the foundations of the Earth shall shake

Bad idea:
You know how some programmable keyboards have a thing where you can press a secret key combination and they'll type some config menu into a text document?

Do the same, but for a mouse.
You just open MS Paint and select the pen tool, then press all the buttons at once.
It'll draw you its config

I feel like most in-house software is tacitly released under the Hot Potato Licence.

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@futurebird The really stupid thing is the Fediverse handily solves the problem in a universal way. It isn't 100% perfect in some ways, but for things like news/etc it pretty much solves their fundamental problems. All they have to do is host their own instances and presto, they can work across anything that can access those instances. It's not so different from hosting websites (which they already do.)

There is literally no excuse that government services don't do this too.

While liberating a Pixel phone I came across this poetry, and on the day Google is convicted of illegal market monopoly in the US: the power button itself, the interface to switching off a device one supposedly owns, is intercepted by a Google 'AI' product. The device can not be powered off, even using buttons as described, without first downloading software from the company.

This domineering and invasive interface culture has to be stopped.

accessibility includes supporting old hardware, nobody has the same economical status as you to afford a new machine