man I really wish there was a cross-platform drag-and-drop scriptable automation framework like apple shortcuts, it's genuinely one of the best things apple's ever made and it could be so much more if it was a cross-platform standard
like you can do so much with it, it's got conditional logic and HTTP requests and two-way shell script interaction and works with just about every. single. stock. system. as well as a metric fuckton of third-party ones
you can make a shortcut that appears in the standard share sheet that turns your VPN on and opens the magnet link you right-clicked in your torrenting client, you can make one that publishes a new post to multiple social media sites at a time, you can make one that automatically turns your happy lamp on when you wake up if the weather's cloudy, all without having to write any code
and then you can do even more if you mix in the ability to Literally Just Run Shell Scripts And Do Arbitrary Web Requests - the only thing it's really missing is better ways to fire shortcuts automatically, but even then you can hack something together with the ability to just call shortcuts from the command line, this is something every OS should have but only apple's do for some reason
