MarauderIIC

There are zipper “fitted” sheets that avoid this problem

“this application is preventing you from shutting down. Go back and save your work: shut down, cancel”

Clicks cancel

Windows: shutting down!

Your description of vendor lock-in is obviously solvable by developers making a competing UI and workflow similar to the most popular software, and enabling new features under another menu. That said, there is obviously minimal interest in doing so.

This is UI. UI is not vendor lock-in. Lock-in costs users money to break out of, not developers.

Yeah - my first thought was literally “that will look dirty quick”

Todo with ticket number

Yup, pretty much this. I have a small touchscreen Arduino device that I keep plugged into my PC. When I hit a button on the touchscreen it sends some text over serial (which is really a USB wire). I have a Python script on the PC that continuously reads from the serial port and parses the received data to figure out what to do. Specifically it tells my Discord bot to play a sound :)

“Tape measure”

I measured my fists. Does well enough.