When I started up my Debian Sid machine today, I wanted to change the keyboard layout from ru (also known as Russian in normal English) back to us (also known as American English). However, when I logged into my sid account with the Hyprland session, well, my keyboard was set to the Russian keyboard layout.
Therefore, I had to go into a tty to change my keyboard layout. Strangely, when I pressed Ctrl + Alt + F5 to switch to tty5, I was greeted with a screenreader shouting Debian GNU slash Linux Forky slash Sid blah blah blah something something something in my face. I mean, why is there a screenreader on? I am not blind, sir! But I do admit wishing to be deaf at that moment.
Even after I logged into the tty and starting typing out commands, that ridiculous screenreader would read out what I was typing. Well, not really. That feature was kind of broken, but you can see why I was annoyed. Only after I muted the VM's sound output with a amixer sset Master mute, did it finally shut up.
I do remember a screenreader reading out screen content during the installation of Debian. Maybe I got the ISO for blind people? I don't know. But if you have