[ale] Idiots shutting out those with visual problems: was Weird window-manager shenanigans on debian 12...

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:28:24 -0400
William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:

> > You gotta love these 20/15 guys who set default fonts for those with
> > similar vision. I mean how cool is it that you can get double the
> > info on the screen if you forsake the 20/50's among us? And while
> > we're at it, isn't dark purple on dark blue just soooo cool?
> > Naturally, use the thinnest, reediest font available and be sure to
> > have plenty of transparency with a complicated image underneath.
> >
> >  
> This is the way I like my console.  So I can pull up a howto or
> something, and do my work directly from the instructions... lol...
> 
> https://bloodlands.shadows.ngrok.dev/filez/terminal.png

The preceding URL didn't resolve, giving a "ERR_NGROK_3200", whatever
that means. I know of one distro, whose filthy name I won't mention,
who not only used 6 point fonts on X11, but arranged their framebuffer
to to use the same tiny fonts.

Due to the distro's unique and very sensible packaging methods, I had
been ready to publish good stuff about this (new at the time) distro on
Troubleshooters.Com, which especially a decade ago was a good thing to
have happen to your distro.

I emailed them about the fonts so small I couldn't see to enlarge them,
and they told me to fix it myself. I repeated the fonts were too small
for me to see anything, and the developers basically called me a
crybaby. Not only did Troubleshooters.Com not mention them, but for the
next 3 years, until they fell into complete oblivion, when anyone spoke
of this distro, I repeated this story. Most who heard it said "Eww, I'm
not going with a distro as uncooperative as that". I bet those guys
still wonder why their great, novel idea never got popular.

SteveT

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