Cumulus Support

When installing a fresh version of bullseye (or running an upgrade) you may encounter a sudden slowdown of everything. Installing literally takes hours.

The cause of this may be that your Pi gets into a loop shouting every minute:

to install the screen reader, press control alt space

If you are using a headless install you probably won't notice until you look into the journal and htop and Google around or plug in earphones and listen. This belongs to the VNC server asfaik and if you boot into the VNC you have a problem even if you run headless. To switch this off is actually a requirement to get a good performance of your Pi.

To switch it off once do the following: which results in something like:

Then kill the piwiz process by the following command (note you have to use the pid on your machine): This frees your RPi from a resource eating monster delaying everything you do.
This immediately lets you get your work done in the sprint your RPi takes.

To prevent this from ever happening again uninstall it: Pfff.... that was a relief
The ever brilliant person who activated this should be...