"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.

There are some countries where ALL users are behind CGNAT, and the lack of IPv6 support in games is a serious problem.
Here it's easy to get gigabit fibre with low latency between users, but all legacy traffic goes through CGNAT. It's perfect for playing games between friends, but only possible with IPv6.

Quake3 got patched with IPv6 support many years ago however:
https://ioquake3.org/ioquake3/...

Having routers which block inbound traffic by default is also a problem. People are hung up on a 20 year old threat model, modern client devices don't have exposed services by default, and are often connected directly to untrusted networks (eg public wifi, vpn, mobille data etc). The threat model today comes from services users make outbound connections to, and yet the typical home user router blocks all inbound and leaves outbound totally open.

If the code is open, then third party dependencies can be replaced or removed. A lot of games have been successfully open sourced and continue to be played to this day - eg quake/doom etc.
Also there's far less likely to be such dependencies in server side code, so long as the game has the ability to connect to an arbitrary server instead of having a fixed address hard coded.

Or "RENT", explicitly stating that you are renting access to the game for a fixed period of time.
After all, "a licence to use the game" is being violated if you can't use the game any more due to it requiring access to a server that no longer exists.

If a game is no longer commercially viable then they should be required to release the server components and/or the source code, allowing anyone to create their own server. Since by their own admission it's not commercially viable they wouldn't lose anything by giving the server components away for free.
This has worked well for games like Quake and Doom which remain fully playable today, even taking advantage of modern hardware which did not exist when these games were developed. It also generates (some) continued sales as although the source code is free, the game assets are not.
If they shut off needed servers and render a game unplayable, then not only do they guarantee no further sales whatsoever, they also generate bad sentiment among former players, and turn all physical copies into completely worthless e-waste.

Only you can't use it forever, or at least shouldn't...
At some point your $400 version of msoffice will reach end of support, at which point security bugs will stop being fixed.

You might still be able to use it on a standalone non networks host which doesn't have removable media, but it will become increasingly risky to use it on a device with any kind of network connectivity and especially one where you're exchanging documents with other people.

Aside from that, exchanging documents with others will become increasingly difficult as newer versions will make changes to the format, or introduce additional things which are not compatible with the old version.

You might also find that the old version will no longer install on newer operating systems, or may not run on newer hardware. You have no recourse in this case, unless you want to run it inside an emulator with a corresponding vintage OS.

Modern Win10 has its own firewall which blocks inbound services by default, so irrespective of wether you have another firewall, or you connect the device to a public network, or some random wifi etc, you're not going to get compromised that way unless theres a bug in windows firewall itself.

Modern malware DOES NOT infect Windows machines via inbound connections.

Modern malware gets onto the machine via OUTBOUND connections made by the user, which the typical router will allow unrestricted so it does absolutely nothing to prevent such attacks. Such attacks either exploit bugs in client software (eg browser bugs), exploit user stupidity (eg phishing), or exploit trust (eg supply chain compromise).

This is why expensive enterprise security products offer features like SSL interception and inspection, web proxying, email filtering etc, because this is the attack vector today - not inbound connections to open ports.

The notion that a deny inbound / allow outbound firewall is in any way beneficial for modern endpoint devices is 20 years out of date.

US policies are effectively killing the global market for proprietary software and SAAS, or rather making countries finally wake up to the risks that always existed with such software.
Open source on the other hand can largely continue as normal. A single vendor can provide support for international clients who install and run the software on their own local servers.

The alternative is every country developing their own local proprietary software, which makes no sense and would likely have a lot of serious compatibility problems.

If you assume just SMS then sure.
But very few people use SMS any more. Most users are using RCS, iMessage or other messaging services which are significantly harder to fake.

It's not "no tech", a tractor is by very definition a piece of technology. It's just a deliberately simpler piece of technology, and which does not implement intentionally user hostile features.

Some tech is genuinely beneficial for the user, but anything designed solely for the manufacturer's benefit at the expense of the paying customer is abhorrent. You bought the device, it should be yours to do with as you please, it shouldn't do anything to artificially restrict you.