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Today, Keir Starmer stood at a podium in Downing Street and announced that the UK will ban social media for anyone under 16. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, and Facebook — gone for minors, though not YouTube Kids, WhatsApp, or Signal. Regulations could land as early as spring 2027. He called it "a full ban" and said it was "the right choice." He said the UK was going "further than any…
Tim Cook walked out on stage today for the last time as CEO of Apple. His farewell WWDC. His mic-drop moment. His legacy-cementation event. The press is already writing the tributes. And what did Apple deliver to mark the occasion? They paid Google — Google — roughly a billion dollars a year to make Siri not embarrassing anymore. They slapped a transparency slider on the interface disaster they…
There's a trend on Android right now that is going to get someone hurt. Hurt in the sense of a blind person picking up their phone in the worst possible moment and finding out the thing they depend on to interact with the world has decided to just not work. TalkBack forks are everywhere. New projects every few weeks, each one full of promises. More like VoiceOver. Faster gestures. Better…
This review might seem boring. So is the MacBook Air, and that's why it's good. The Air gets out of your way. Open, work, close, done. No friction, no fans, no setup ritual, no decisions left to make once you've decided to use it. The Air has been chasing this idea since the first Apple Silicon model in 2020, and the M5 is the version where it actually clicks. The chassis was right years ago. The…
The MacBook Neo is a normal computer for normal people. That's the promise, and Apple has delivered on it — for the first time at this price point, from this company, possibly ever. It's the laptop most people should buy. That's the verdict. Everything else is the reasoning, the caveats, and the part where I tell you when it isn't. I've spent serious time with the base configuration — $599, 8GB of…
I wrote my day-one impressions of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and they were not kind. You can go read that post for the full rundown of every frustration, every moment of "what the hell did I just spend my money on," every accessibility papercut that made me wonder if Samsung had ever met a blind person. I meant every word of it. A month later, I mean every word of this too: this device has fundamentally…
I went to bed last night. I woke up this morning and Mastodon had eaten my app. I spent the morning reading notifications. I spent the rest of the day building. This post is from the other side of that. Why Touchscreen Keyboards Are Hell Blind people have a complicated relationship with typing on touchscreens. It isn't exotic — it's a design problem the industry decided wasn't worth solving…
I want to be upfront about something before I tell you anything else: I am a Flip user. Have been for a while now. I like it. I like the form factor. I like that it folds to something small, that I can one-hand it without negotiating, that TalkBack navigates it the way TalkBack navigates a phone because when you open a Flip you have a phone. I bought into folding as a concept and the Flip…
The phone is here. Setup is done, more or less. I have opinions already and I haven't made a single fucking phone call. This is not a good sign. This is, in fact, the worst possible omen for a device whose entire job is to be a phone. The Unboxing Nobody Asked For Unboxing a phone in 2026 is not an experience. It is a thing that happens before the experience. You open a box, the phone is in it,…
There’s a question I keep asking, and I keep getting the same answer. Not in words — the industry is too polished for that — but in practice, in policy, in the quiet removal of features you relied on, in the error messages that don’t explain themselves, in the app that disappeared from the store overnight, in the hardware that used to do a thing and now doesn’t because a firmware update decided it…
There’s a certain kind of person who’s becoming extinct. You’ve probably met one. Maybe you are one. Someone who actually understood the tools they used. Someone who could sit down at an unfamiliar system, poke at it for twenty minutes, and have a working mental model of what it was doing and why. Someone who read error messages instead of dismissing them. Someone who, when something broke,…
The smartwatch market is a graveyard of ambition, a monument to wasted engineering hours, and a decade-long demonstration of what happens when the richest companies on Earth decide that good enough is someone else's problem. A note before we begin: This piece is not balanced. A beta reader raised this as a concern. They are correct that it is not balanced and wrong that this is a problem. Balance…
Three inches of plastic. Zero bullshit. The last phone that made me think about how I use it. It’s 2025, and I’m still talking about a phone from 2023 — not because it’s fast or sleek or even supported, but because it did something nothing else has since: it made me care about how I use technology. The Jelly Star is absurd, fragile, and inconvenient — and that’s exactly why it still matters. The…
If you see me in public, don’t come over to talk about my work. Not “unless it’s quick.” Not “unless it’s positive.” Not “unless I look free.” Just don’t. This isn’t arrogance. It’s boundaries. And apparently they need to be written down, because too many people think being visible online means you’re available in person. The Act The version of me you know — the writer, the ranter, the one who…
Google has finally crossed the line. Starting in 2026, sideloading on a certified Android phone will no longer mean freedom — it will mean paperwork. If a developer doesn’t submit their government ID, register their package names and signing keys, and agree to Google’s new “verification,” then their app simply will not install. That’s it. Sideloading is gone, gutted, neutered. And I don’t care how…
I picked up the iPhone Air on launch day, and setup was exactly how I want it: boring. eSIM transfer happened right inside settings on my old phone. No call center hold music, no QR codes, no tiny plastic cards to drop on the carpet. Just hold one phone near the other, tap a couple prompts, and done. Accessibility was there from the first screen — triple-click, VoiceOver on, and I was moving.…
The challenge is back on. Not on some new machine. Not on borrowed hardware or a fallback plan. It’s back on the original netbook — the Samsung NC10 — the one that crashed, screamed, shut down, and begged to be buried. The one that refused to POST. The one that beeped at me like a microwave with abandonment issues. The one I pulled apart, resurrected in an actual oven, and still, for some reason,…
This is what it looks like when a machine gives up. For the first time since this started, I didn’t wake up ready to fight. XP booted clean. Nothing screamed. The browser opened. Enafore loaded. I read some posts. JAWS tracked. The system didn’t even creak. It felt... survivable. No new services had risen from the grave. No weird startup behavior. The registry held. The audio stack behaved. Even…
Themes. Telnet. Task Scheduler. Windows File Protection. All gone. And the system boots better without them. I knew people were replying. That’s why I opened Enafore in the first place. I just wanted to catch up and maybe respond—from here. From the system I’ve spent days tuning and wrestling into shape. From XP. Not my phone. Not anything else. And at first, it worked. Serpent opened the page.…
A line-by-line teardown of the most smug, exclusionary comment I’ve gotten since starting this blog—and why the so-called “freedom” they preach looks a lot more like a wall. I woke up this morning to a comment on the first post in the 'I Want to Love Linux' series. Congratulations, random internet user: you earned a full-length blog post in response. Not because you're special, but because your…
Day 1 – Dust, Drivers, and Despair: Getting Windows XP Running in 2025 People have told me I don’t know how good I have it. That my complaints about Linux are too much. That I’m spoiled. That back in the day, things were harder. That Windows XP was worse in every way. That modern systems are faster, more usable, more accessible — and I’m just being dramatic. So I decided to call that bluff. For…
The future is Wayland. Let’s make sure we’re invited. This post wasn’t supposed to exist — not yet. I meant to talk about bootloaders. About inaccessible USB installs. About the deafening silence between pressing the power button and hearing a screen reader. That post is still coming. But something bigger is happening now. Ubuntu is dropping GNOME on X11. GNOME itself is removing X11 code. And in…
My Blog, My Rules, My Vulgar Musical Breakdown of the Fucking Year You know what? Fuck it. I don’t usually post musical reviews here. This blog was supposed to be about Linux, and broken drivers, and the relentless masochism of accessibility hacking in a world that thinks screen readers are optional. I wasn’t supposed to be here, writing about sequins and Satan and frog-fucking through a theatre…
The Console Is a Lie — Braille on Linux Is a Lovecraftian Joke Welcome back to "I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back." In this post, we’re stepping into the part of Linux that everyone says “just works” — the console. The raw, text-only interface you drop into when X dies, the GUI fails, or you're installing a system from scratch. Sighted users can rely on it without thinking. But if…
hCaptcha's "Accessibility" Mode Is a Fucking Cookie And it's wrapped in a maze of broken promises, bad design, and outright user hostility You've probably heard of hCaptcha — the CAPTCHA alternative that brags about privacy, security, and accessibility. You may have even used it. You may have trusted it. If you did, I don’t blame you. Its marketing is slick. Its messaging is persuasive. It claims…
⚠️ Disclaimer This post is a satire . It is entirely a work of humor and parody . Any resemblance to real software, platforms, people (alive, dead, or emotionally sandboxed), projects, distributions, or systemd maintainers is purely coincidental . If you found this post while trying to actually install a dating app via the terminal, please step away from the keyboard and talk to a human.…
This Is What It Looks Like When People Care This blog series has been a lot of yelling. Rightfully so—because a lot of Linux is broken. But this post? This one's different. Because while the failures need to be called out, the people trying to fix it deserve recognition. And a few teams—despite limited resources, upstream breakage, and years of neglect—are actually doing the work. Debian: Quietly…
You Can’t Hear Anything—and It’s Not Your Fault You plug in headphones. Nothing. You unplug them again. Still nothing. The speakers are muted. The system says they aren’t. You check volumes. You restart Pulse. You restart PipeWire. You restart your whole damn session. And still— no sound. That’s just a Tuesday on Linux audio. Sometimes the device shows up and just won’t play anything. Sometimes it…
Linux Is Already Broken Before You Even Start I love Linux. I use Linux. It has its advantages. It’s responsive—sometimes. Some things just work plain better. Settings being stored in actual config files instead of opaque registries? That’s an accessibility win . When something breaks, you don’t have to reinstall the whole OS like you would on Windows. Most importantly: it’s mine. To do with as I…