I’m actually trying my best not to buy from countries I see as vile and inhumane, and businesses owned by people who support vile political ideologies. Spend a good amount of time checking for the brand and country of origin while in the shop.
Accessibility comes from setting notification settings right and turning on the volume (I’ve missed a few by putting headset aside, need to turn it off first).
Meetings, either I am an active participant or it’s a background noise.
As for the file explorer / sheets etc, yeah I alt tab. I wouldn’t be able to keep all the stuff on the screen anyway now that I need Xcode VScode Claude-cli Emacs & few terminal windows. If I’m alttabbing that, alttab to Finder or Browser isn’t much harder.
I like to work on a single screen. Two monitors, tried them and didn’t like that, lots of work to keep stuff on the right one, and I still focus on a single screen and ignore the second.
I’m also perfectly fine with a laptop touchpad and never wanted to replace that with a mouse.
Some people argue that you as a single buyer won’t make a corporation go bankrupt. Saying that, they mean they would just go for cost/efficiency when buying themselves, ignoring the moral aspect, cause their contribution isn’t gonna be noticeable. After all, it’s not their fault, it’s the government/capitalism/<whatever_else>.
I find this argument ridiculous cause 20 cent bullets kill people.