>>>>> "CB" == Chris Brannon <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
CB> Matt Campbell <mattcampbell@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> I took this position in 2000, but for the last decade or more,
>> access to a GUI has been widely available to blind people at no
>> extra cost. (If there are blind people today who are truly stuck
>> on old hardware with no accessible GUI, that's unfortunate, but I
>> think this is one case where the best solution is charity, not
>> expecting the rest of the world to accommodate this situation
>> forever. That's no different than for sighted people stuck on
>> very old hardware.)
CB> I'm sorry, but this is a very irresponsible attitude, given the
CB> impact of climate change. And now on top of that, the world is
CB> coping with supply chain issues. "Chuck it in a landfill
CB> because it won't run the latest Electron app" is deeply
CB> unacceptable.
This is not about the latest greatest, it’s just that running GUI is
non-issue these days. Several years ago, I had to decommission an
almost 20 years old computer with 256 GB RAM used by my mother in law
not because it couldn’t run a GUI but because displaying certain web
sites in a web browser was really non-comfortable (which is the real and
hard to avoid bottleneck). And guess what I did? I replaced the
computer with another junk >10 years old computer with 2 GB RAM and the
problem was solved. No climate impact, no supply chain problems, just a
positive effect of freeing up a bit storage space :-).
Regards,
Milan
