Then as smart phones took off, all the companies quadrupled down on the walled garden idea

Yahoo and MSN had interop before smartphones existed. AIM and Google Talk (Jabber) as well.

When smart phones took off, Facebook Messenger actually had Jabber support (which also gave it interop with AIM and Google Talk).

The consolidation and walled gardens unfortunately came back later.

besides memory leaks

Have you tried auto memory reclaim yet?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/#:~:text=Automatic%20memory%20reclaim&text=When%20this%20is%20set%20to,you're%20not%20using%20it!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/linux-distros-are-about-to-get-a-killer-windows-feature-the-blue-screen-of-death/#:~:text=The%20systemd%2Dbsod%20component%20is,photo%20or%20write%20it%20down.

And if the backup was merged into existing contacts, just take a new one. Then you can purge all contacts instead of trying to sort through the broken ones.

It's particularly jarring that they get it right in some episodes and wrong in others. Might make a good drinking game.

There is a setting buried somewhere to disable it.

Shell != Terminal

For alt+drag try this:

https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

For the rest I think you'll need to go to real AutoHotkey.

The terminal and the shell are two different things.

cmd and ps are shells, which automatically use the built-in terminal as I recall.

Windows Terminal is not a shell. But it can open cmd or ps or bash shells.

For sudo I usually use this:

https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

Yes, because IP68 is the better target. Surely you remember all the water damage issues with the S5?

Why not do like Hemmer and just beam out a chunk of the planet's core? Done strategically, this could have a similar impact to the bomb planted on Qo'nos in Discovery.

Why waste a whole Voyager when you can rig two quantum torpedoes to make the entire planet's atmosphere uninhabitable?