cursor disappears in Emacs

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quoting the emacs manual:

On a text terminal, the cursor’s appearance is controlled by the terminal, largely out of the control of Emacs. Some terminals offer two different cursors: a visible static cursor, and a very visible blinking cursor. By default, Emacs uses the very visible cursor, and switches to it when you start or resume Emacs. If the variable visible-cursor is nil when Emacs starts or resumes, it uses the normal cursor.
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By default, the cursor stops blinking after 10 blinks, if Emacs does not get any input during that time; any input event restarts the count

What happens with rio is that the cursor doesn't blink initially and after the time for 10 blinks disappear instead of not blinking ...

I set visible-cursor to nil in emacs conf to override this behavior .. but it would be nice if the cursor at least would not disappear with the default.