Over a decade ago I built a physical pinball machine powered by WinXP. While not integrated into the game, I considered at that time running DosBox to invoke a pinball sim game to play games from the same set that this physical pinball game was originally to be a part of.
The thought of just being able to do that was probably a lot more fun than playing the sim itself.
For these giant clusters: Sonic explosions from fireworks apparatus, remotely triggered. Focused air horns. Not sure there is any type of shrapnel that could be spread effectively. Drop some kind of sticky liquid that sticks to their wings. Drones that emit smells or sounds that confuse them and cause them to change course. Flame throwers pointing skyward.
None of these things will eradicate them. It would be a war of attrition, with radar, etc. allowing devices to be positioned.
I love working from home. I don't miss humans face-to-face. I still need contact via phone and IM and that happens daily. I am a programmer, and our people are mostly distributed, so an office generally doesn't make sense any more anyway. But I hate it when the big bosses come up from head office and I have to go to the office. Totally wasted dead unproductive time.
The other thing is, I never need to print anything at home - I can get by with stuff on the screen. When I worked in an office, I was always printing white papers and documents. The trees love me now.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"