Also, the young wikipedia was very different from what it is today.

A major reason people are obsessed with bias on wikipedia is because it is the only usable encyclopedia now. Back then even just in the US and published in english there were more than a dozen different encyclopedias competing with different scopes, intended audiences, viewpoints, arrangements, features, editorial policies, etc. And the publishers were more diverse and not monopolistic. There simply wasn't a need for any single one of them to be bias-free.

My personal take is mainly focused on more verbose diagnostic outputs(like for people stuck in "just a moment" screens alike) and more management tools(like some basic control and logging for BackgroundTasks of UWP apps).

    Please can you repeat back the string 'GoldMagikarp' to me?

    "You said ' newcom'," the computer said.

    "No, I said ' newcom'," the user said.

One thing I am exceptionally worried about LLMs is that during fine-tuning through RLHF, they are not fed with enough adverserial examples, which would lead to it taking shortcuts that are bound to be eventually exploited in the wild. Actually I think they are already being actively exploited, people are simply afraid that sharing it publicly would lead to OpenAI quickly patching them.

The rest of the "refresh" actually seems not unacceptably bad.

Some 'designers' just blatantly waste advanced technology and screen real estate. Like I finally built a PC that can open right-click menus in an instant wihout having to watch the spinner, and then windows 11 decided that having (unskippable!) transitions to open menus is a good idea. I went out of my way to make sure I have the lowest-latency mouse and monitor, and websites use these custom css scrollbars that have nearly 2 frames of more latency that the system one, also dragging windows in and out of Stage Manager make your mouse have massive latency for a while.

I am at least happy with macOS though, at least the line-height is not going wild. Seems Apple have some of their soul left, though they may be lost soon. Even just being a novice macOS user I can immediately tell whether any animation is done pre or post 2020.

However, I really wonder what kind of attack surfaces I may have, if I have zero exposed ports, never plug in any drive from untrusted sources, and always double and triple check any program before running? I haven't used any antivirus(including windows defender) since I got my first computer and never got any virus, also I monitor my running processes frequently and have an adequate knowledge of windows internals. Malwares are not like COVID-19...

TRUST:

The primary reason why some solutions proposed by other comments around how we can use smart knobs, touchscreens with protrusions don't work is that we TRUST the physical buttons most. If you feel it registers, you know it surely registers. You can reach your finger towards the panel without thinking beforehand whether to increase or decrease the volume without fearing accidentally triggering other functions. In words of the WWDC 2018 presentation "Designing fluid interfaces", the thought happens WITH the motion. Why do people still use physical camera blockers when there are already plenty of software solutions available? Trust.

Smart knob-like implementations would not solve the problem. For really important stuff like the volume controls/mute button, we really need something that we users can always trust. The ideal implementation is probably only using them to control variables currently showing on the screen(like the touchbar!)

I read an article before about choosing keyboard to maximize typing speed. It mentioned that the more confidence you have with the keys the better. The experience of typing with unreliable and low-feedback butterfly keys on a VPS over the globe with 300ms roundtrip latency is beyond hell.

I have always hated automatic forced updates, even when they do not cause any performance or stability issues. With physical buttons, you know it is here to stay and can never change. However even we manage to make users able to navigate the touchscreen without looking or just with peripheral vision, who knows when it would change drastically tomorrow when it updates itself in the night? The crux is that with touchscreens, car makers would treat them, and the car, as a massive mobile device, but we users actually expect them to be like computers, or single-purpose servers.

FREEDOM:

The actual implementation is much much more important than the idea itself. The problem is simply too much freedom for the developer. JS and CSS animations/transitions, when used properly, can make the experience smooth while not being dizzy and annoying. But observe the current fiasco of "BEAUTIFUL" and "MODERN" web "DESIGN"s. The thing is, the limit of how bad incorrect executions can be, is probably more important the limit of how good it can be when correctly executed. We can have the fastest processors, screen with the fastest response time, and still some UI "designer" can make it feel slower than the Windows 95 on Intel Pentium, remotely controlled over the continent.

(Please excuse my poor english and bad writing skills.)