Tariffs are part of the solution. They need to be transparent and well considered.

Trump is pretty good at trolling. Realistically, most people are not in for the laughs.

I've been to China a few times, and I see people willing to work, people willing to build, Supply chains that put ours to shame.
China is racist and has agents everywhere.

I have to respect China, and they are dealing with their problems with mostly reasonable procedures, and they squash dissent. Dissent wastes a lot of time.

We should not be squashing dissent, we should find ways to deal with things that are beyond reproach. but we have people actively trying to destroy us, who do things like put males into women's sports and take opportunities to exploit tensions with our racial diversity.
China has been able to influence our college curriculums for quite some time, because we charge exchange students a lot of money, and that is what funds our universities. That would likely be why they have been pushing Cultivation of Racial Tribalism and other divisive ideology.

China is the superpower. We are not the superpower any longer. They are going in softly, and the people who don't want that can react and look stupid.

Humans are multi-generational organisms, and China understands that, They took some horrible chances that may yet backfire. It would be great if we can all work together.

I want my files to work cross platform.
I don't want there to be two files named the same thing differing only by case.

I don't want any non-typable characters
I don't want any reserved characters.
I would prefer not to have unicode, and no emojis, but would accept unicode from some language groups.

That ends up being very very very complicated.
So I want warnings and errors to come up when dealing with these. If would be cool to add a flag to turn off these warnings and then just treat it as anything but null and slash are valid characters, but for interactive programs, no.

I would like to be able to specify that a directory can only include files that match a certain format.. so maybe some folders can only take the characters 0-9 and that is it... or specify a maximum length, in both characters and bytes because unicode can have many byte characters.

Gemini wastes more time than it saves.
Google assistant worked, and they removed it.

There are no chimes to let us know it is listening, resulting it repeating commands over and over, then it argues or over apologizes then does the same thing over.

AI should not be used as a black box. Giving suggestions or selecting an algorithm and allowing one to select something different are needed.

Alexa can tell what I am saying very well, but it has bad weighting, it does things like fire phasers even when it heard the correct words to run the routine I requested.

The thank yous and cursing at AIs are great feedback tools, but the developers tune out the feedback and they can go f themselves of they don't actually want feedback.

If you can read the title of the open task,
you can tell what you're doing.

If you have a quick launch, you can find what you are looking for every time.

If it is on the left, you don't have to scroll browser windows as much, and things just work better.

But hey, microsoft is down with making unusable garbage now.

Windows 95 osr2 with IE4 I think could do this. Win 98 SE could for sure... KDE4 could do even better than that and later KDE5 could too, KDE6 is not as good as 5 or 4 but blows away windows and mac.

Macs have garbage ui.

Thanks for info, I'll look into it ..

So far I really liked apt, and I felt like Ubuntu just added commercial support to debian, but snaps and flatpacks have been annoying.

yes, I work with people who have mobility problems.
you said it well.

Shakes, any vision impairment,
anger management issues,
any lack of ability to deal with unexpected things, Macintosh makes it all so hard, can accidentally do bad stuff but so hard to discover how to make it better.

I've submitted a request to have a behavior store, so I can set taskbars and everything quickly on every new machine.

KDE is the only UI that I can make right, but making it right is a challenge.

This is the best UI out there. It can be configured so many users can just use it.

You'll probably want to buy a new drive.

Yes, this is the way. We'll get them set up as a group.

I'm not wanting to may 50 bucks per year per computer

The new macs have an OS that is worse than windows 11 (my client accidentally moved something from the dock and was screwed)

The new macs don't have mouse buttons.
The new macs have storage soldered to the board. (exception with the mini, so minis may be ok)

This means when you damage the laptop, you can't get your data back without great pain.

I am ok with arm, I am happy to have battery life, I am happy to pay a premium, but Tim Cook poisons every product. No sideloading on IOS, garbage... an aweful company.

The new laptops don't work.
They have horrible buttonless trackpads, that cause errors. They are difficult to use.

Windows 11 doesn't have a usable taskbar and start menu, and the account requirement is unacceptable.

Fix these and I'll buy a new computer and use windows 11.

We paid for the shipping from China. Not the purchaser of the item.

When there are government subsidies to make things cheaper than they really are, by paying for shipping by having higher domestic shipping costs, That is just messed up.

My 2022 Moto G Sylus 5G 256/6 (yes, all that has to be said) is a great phone but the battery is messed up.

I would pay for more software updates.

Apple is a company to not do business with, they are horrible.

Samsung has ok phones but they have garbage apps stuck with it.

Motorola has usable software.
They don't have a lot of margin on this phone.
I want to pay $200 and have lots of storage.
I want reliable phone calls.

So many of the other features really don't matter.

I really want the f(x)tech one with a keyboard, but it's too expensive.

The framework laptops should be great for a desktop with a built in UPS.

I don't want any of my clients getting computers without a battery.

When Riscv gets chrome/ DRM video playback, and some kinds of arm and x86 translation software, I hope to get one of these. I don't want to mess with Arm because it seems like riscv will take over soon.

Clicking on a setting and have it instantly change is wrong.

It violates the human/computer interface expectations.

I always expect to be able to undo and or test a change or have a warning/chance to cancel.