@tinker @drsbaitso

More often than not, when I read something like this, it is at a library. I have the feeling that ultimately, librarians will save us somehow.

@anthropy

My girlfriend is gonna be mighty upset is she thinks I’m into that kinda thing.

They have their priorities wrong. And the girlfriend too.

The correct answer is buying fake ears, not being upset.

@shadowfals I checked out the wiki for Arch Linux. There are options, but it does not look very promising:

When the installation medium starts booting, press Down followed by Enter to boot with speech enabled.

You know, after the installer boot menu appears -- that you can't see -- but before the 15 second timeout that selects the default silent option.

(Of course, it is a distro for advanced Linux users, so it might not even fit for your use case.)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_with_accessibility_options

@MicroSFF Strong Nimona vibes.