And then some kid buys a used raspberry pi or wipes an old computer and circumvents it all anyway.

VPNs are next.

People circumventing the OSA.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
VPNs banned

Oh, they do have psychological manipulation in mind.
There are 2 leading design types:
No clocks anywhere, designed to be difficult to navigate out of, designed to make the passage of time difficult to tell.
And open and bright with easy lines of sight, designed to allow gamblers to relax without leaving.

https://www.casinousa.com/blog/psychology-of-casino-design

The former was developed by an ex-gambler that "turned their life around" into an architect that manipulates gamblers to gamble more. He studied the successful casinos, and gathered up all the techniques that makes gamblers gamble more.
The open layout was developed in response to this, and solely concentrates on making gamblers feel relaxed (or able to relax).

But lighting, layout, smells, sounds... Everything is accounted for.
Casino owners know the design of their casino is what makes gamblers gamble more

That's the fun part about windows: who the fuck knows?
Can't look at the source, can't confirm if it's bad API implementation or bad documentation.

The cupcake was a great touch.
Like, here is the dude that is evil. But he's also normal. He's had a good day/week as far as he is concerned, and as a celebration & reward: gets himself a fancy sweet treat.
It's not some data tablet, or star wars specific thing. It's a cupcake. And a super fancy one that comes in a nice box. It's really relatable.

Geocities animated gif style "under construction", no less

We tried that. It's called Australia. They are a sovereign state now, and I'm pretty sure they are cooler than us.
So...

Clearly you use your keyboard to dry you off

Just booted? Better wait 45 seconds and many failed searches, because DNS isn't resolving.
Doesn't matter that you are trying to launch a local program, it absolutely must delay the user experience until it can successfully resolve a DNS query.
Disgusting

Most multinational web apps will have different deployments for different countries.
Locating the servers geographically closer to the users reduces latencies and costs.
Running different deployments allow them to tailor more closely to local regulations, without having it impact everyone else

Changing ports does nothing except reduced log chatter.
Security through obscurity is not security

WiFi has literally gone the opposite of USB.
It used to be obvious what USB speeds were, whereas WiFi was 802.11b or whatever.
Now we have WiFi 5 or WiFi 6. And we have USB-C PD 10gbps with AltMode