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I wanted to use I2P approx ten years ago, but the setup was difficult to me at first sight (and must add the peers by hand, as I remember). So I use Tor (it was more convenient), and a Tor Bridge sometimes (with Nyx). But I don't use Tor Exit (the reason is known).

On the other hand I prefer KDE instead of Gnome. The Gnome desktop layout and the windiw manager behavior is a bit strange to me. I have tried the accessibility functions on KDE. There was no problem, regarding the tools for the visually impaired. I tried the text to speech too, but it mainly supports the English language, which is not my mother tongue.

So I have to apologize but I can't assist you more in this situation.

Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

All good man :)

The reason the accessibility is so terrible is not that it doesn't exist - it clearly does - it is how it is able to be used.

On MacOS, you hold down the control-key and swipe two fingers up or down to zoom in and out respectively. On windows, you hold ctrl+alt and use the scrollwheel for the same effect. I tried to replicate this in Linux and ran into an insane amount of problems; from the screen magnification completely crashing on boot, forcing me to write a script to re-enable it after 1 second after login on Cinnamon - whilst KDE and Gnome didn't even have that feature in the first place and needed xbindkeys together with another startup script. Meaning... neither of them are pickup-and-go solutions.

I never heared of Nyx; what exactly is that? I currently have i2p and tor on my home server with their respective proxies exposed into the network, so I can always just point my browser at them should I need either. But apart from that, I haven't done much with those... although, I really want to.

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ᴄʏʙᴇʀɢᴜʏ 👽 2y ago

It's sad that you have issues with accessibiloty tools, especially that you rely on them. I'll try the magnification on KDE Plasma, when I returned home. Cinnamon is notnso sophisticated than KDE, so it is no wonder that you can't use this tool seamlessly.

Nyx is a text based monitoring tool for Tor bridge (relay) and/or Tor exit. You can check the traffic, searched websites, diag infos. If you ran a Tor exit (I tried it once) you will be amazed, what kind of websites (not just .onion sites) are searched.

ᴄʏʙᴇʀɢᴜʏ 👽 2y ago

I found this about screen reader magnification tool in KDE Plasma environment. This is a built-in function (the service name is Orca).

Hopefully it will help you:

https://userbase.kde.org/Accessibility/Plasma