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by pwg 890 days ago
And, sadly, given the rate of "click through" on all warning dialogs, a very many users will not read even the "better message" and will simply reflexively hit the "ok" button to "make this popup go away", effectively ending up in the same state.

Better is either the button/switch to turn Bluetooth on, or do not allow disablement when either a mouse or a keyboard is connected via Bluetooth and no wired version of the same is presently installed.

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> Better is either the button/switch to turn Bluetooth on, or do not allow disablement when either a mouse or a keyboard is connected via Bluetooth and no wired version of the same is presently installed.

I was thinking similarly, but for backwards compatibility, maybe only allow a person to disable it using a somewhat complicated combination of hotkeys. Show the warning and then after 5 seconds the hotkeys would be displayed and active. Or maybe something similar to "sticky keys" on Windows, when you hold down shift for a bit.