There are many people in the world who simply can't get high speed connectivity or at least not for an affordable price. Many connections are also metered, so you have to add the cost of data on top of the cost of the game.

No it's more like a ticket that allows you to return to the cinema as many times as you want to watch the same movie again. Once you get bored of watching the same movie multiple times, you sell the ticket to someone else.

Your analogy of seeing a movie with a one off ticket is closer to an arcade where you pay per play.

It's more like seeing your neighbor wearing jewelry, and then crafting your own piece that looks the same. Your neighbor still has their original jewelry.

People do this kind of thing all the time, they see their neighbors get something and then copy them - wether its a paint job or landscaping, or a new car etc.

I have a good keyboard, and on a good day, I can do 60 words a minute. I completely and fundamentally disagree with you. Using a microphone to speak what you want to appear on the screen can be, if you use it correctly, much, much faster than typing it. using a keyboard is great now for certain types of things, but these modern tools recognize things like when you use commas and are pausing, when a sentence ends, and so on. You don't need to actually say the sentence and then say the word period after it to end a sentence. These tools actually can recognize this now. So it makes it much, much faster. I'm using it right now. And I did not edit a single thing after I completed my speech here and hit submit.

You don't have to have a disability to use one of these tools. I did start using one because I was typing way, way too much. But it turns out that they're actually extremely useful. So I compose all my emails and do all of my development work with propts using a tool like this. It doesn't need to be bundled with Ubuntu.

They all work essentially the same way. They are using some sort of an API connection into an LLM. But it's not full AI. It's essentially a type of speech recognition, as far as I understand.

So I already use a tool like this. It's called Voicy. I use it because I've been writing so many long prompts that I developed relatively severe tendonitis in my left arm. And also I was leaning on my desk so much when typing that I developed bursitis in my elbow. So I got this application, and then I got a microphone, and now I can make very long, large prompts. It has actually sped up the development of a game that I'm working on by an astronomical amount. In fact, I'm using it right now. It's not perfect, but it does the job, and I actually don't type very much now. It's a lifesaver, and I use it within Ubuntu in WSL.

So yes, many people actually do ask for these sorts of things. You don't even know that you need it until actually after you start using it, and that will completely switch the way that you code. It also changes the way that you do prompts. In one sense, it makes them less precise because it becomes more of a stream-of-thought type programming, whereas when you're typing prompts, you're forced to slow down. But on the balance, it's actually very, very beneficial.

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

You also don't need anything so power hungry, a modern integrated GPU would be better.

"or even simulated depictions of those acts"

So they're going to be arresting thousands of actors and film crew now? This basically criminalises making movies or tv shows.

Depends on the country...
Many european countries have welfare and taxation systems that reward having children but punish higher earners.
This creates a situation where the higher earners can't afford to have kids as it would mean time off work, childcare costs etc. Meanwhile those on welfare have every incentive to have more kids.

They read a lot, it's just that the content they read comes from their peers rather than authors with an editorial team to ensure proper grammar and spelling.

Lower rates of teen pregnancy could also be caused by better education about contraceptives, and easier availability of contraceptives.

The moderate parties are trying not to offend anyone or lose any votes, so they don't offer any solutions to anything that might be controversial. This is not just things like immigration, a lot of economic reforms would also cause short term pain even if the long term was hugely beneficial. Political parties are deathly afraid of this kind of thing because it means losing votes in the short term so they'll lose the next election cycle and the next party will take the credit when the long term benefits kick in.

So you get various problems building up over time with no mainstream parties offering any kind of solution just more of the same with the problems gradually getting worse.

The fringe parties only have a small hard core of supporters that they're not going to lose, so they start promising solutions because they've got nothing to lose. Moderate voters who are increasingly sick of the mainstream parties status quo might disagree with 95% of the fringe parties policies, but these parties are also the only ones offering any kind of solution to the biggest problems voters face, so they start voting for the fringe parties and they become successful.

It should technically be possible to create an ARM hackintosh with a raspberry pi or similar hardware.

If you're relying on legacy software then you're doing something wrong.
Removal of support just exposes dangerous behaviour that previously went unnoticed. A huge number of security weaknesses are directly attributable to legacy software and backwards compatibility.

If software hasn't been updated since 2020 or earlier then it's a huge security risk. If you're playing with such old junk for fun then you can use an emulator, you absolutely should not be using anything old and unsupported in production with real data.