Computers should always follow user commands without exception

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Very true. There are those who want a computer to make suggestions and those who want the computer to do what they tell it to.

I suspect those who want the computer to make suggestions have evil intentions.

And they should always respect user focus. Something I got used to on the Amiga, but (Windows) is horrible at this. I'm constantly typing into the wrong window when focus changes in the middle of something. WTF?

Very true.

We could fix most of this by (1) allowing users to prevent particular programs from switching the context to a new window and (2) putting the UI (screen/kb/mouse) in real time on a second processor so what you type goes into the place you thought it was going.

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