You can make career switches. One famous example, for instance, was Luciano De Crescenzo: he was an electrical engineer working for IBM, but it was bored to have to sell computers, so started to write a novel. That book had huge success, so he quit working for IBM and started a career as a writer.
A less know example is one of my former coworkers, that was a PERL programmer, but he actually mayored in Latin and ancient Greek literature.
Making a career jump it's possible, but starting with the right academic background it's always useful to know the theory that in a molre practical approach could be missing.

Interestingly Carrefour is selling a branded American Express in their stores. Not all shops are accepting AmEx cards, normally they are only big chain or expensive shops like jewelry shops.

Upscale restaurants, and even smaller ones normally have a copy of the menu with the price list outside. It also works as a sneak form of advertising.

Another solution is to try, at least to the more busy paths have public transportation on dedicated tracks. Besides this solves brilliantly the battery problem for electric vehicles. Autonomous trains are a reality since the '90s and to be honest they are more like an huge lift and they are controlled by a bunch of relays and PLCs than fancy AI systems, but they work.
Having people computing by car it's an huge waste of resource and time. Designing cities to make easy and fast to use public transportation and reduce unneeded car use putting commercial areas near residential areas is another option.

I do this with technology compatible with 1960 one. I have the phone number of the pub across the road. I phone the publican and ask him if he could please make the burgers, and while at it get say a porter or a lager. He says when the burgers are ready. Now actually I message him using Telegram. I know that is a problem if in your city or in your town isn't normal to have a decent pub. Maybe it's another reason to cross the Atlantic?

All real conspiracies have a big difference compared to the not real ones: when they're found they're dismantled, conspirator are arrested, demoted or become fugitive and the conspiracy stops. Some parts could remain obscure but the main conspiracy is clear and definite.

Not all car prices become insane. Premium segment cars have become a bit higher, but not to much, and now a BEV or ICE car have comparable prices. In the price range of 40000-50000 you have a lot of choices.
The problem is that small, cheap city cars are either not for sale anymore, or their price is insane: 15.950 â for a Fiat Panda without any optionals, not even a car radio or infotainment it's high. An Aygo is â 18.950 because you can have it only with the fake SUV "X" design.
Five years ago the same cars were on the 10000 euro range, so what happens is that people that have a small car are postponing buying one.

You should look at Cinecittà with Dry (2022).
Interesting thing there was a draught in Rome and Latin areas in 2022 See how Tevere water level was low
You can make some disaster movie following some actual news facts related to climate change.

It was always like this, especially if a product needed consumables to work. Remember the Philips Video 2000, and DCC, the Sony Elcaset and Betamax or Kodak disc cameras?
The difference is that in those case you had some grace period and could sometime still find today some NOS stuff and not an abrupt stop. Now it's becoming harder and harder to find 135 format film, blank compact cassettes or VHS tapes too, so now the difference is small.

There are two big cases. If one lives in a fully residential suburban area and buys the food ad a big mall midway between office and home it's a thing. If one lives in a more developed area and has restaurants, grocery stores nearby, it's another thing.
I am in the latter case: i have a pizza restaurant at 30 meters from my house and a McDonalds at 300 meters, and also a mid-size supermarket, a couple of Chinese restaurants, a bakery and bars. Sometimes, when I WFH, at lunch I go to the pizza restaurant because they make a way better pizza than me.

We don't expect someone with a degree physics or chemistry to be able to walk onto a construction site and take care of the plumbing. Maybe surprise and incredulity about a CS grad not having any Java or Python experience is actually an expectations problem.

In a construction site you can have a chartered engineer, maybe a chartered architect, a chartered surveyor and have plumbers, bricklayers, carpenters, electricians and so on.
Nobody is expecting that an architect could drive a cement mixer or that a civil engineer could dig in a real estate registry efficiently.
I know a mechanical engineer that bought a piece of land and designed it's own house. Let's say that looks totally different compared to the neighbours one, not only because structural elements are steel bars and not reinforced concrete.
The problem with a specific language and not the general concept is that languages and IT technologies are very wide. So learning Python is not very useful if one has to program in C# or Erlang. Also in IT technologies are evolving fast. The fact the first languages I learnt at school were Pascal and FORTRAN on a VAX running VMS and C and 8086 assembly on an IBM XT running MSDOS, make me clearly ad old dinosaur, but also made me understand the fundamentals of programming languages and see over the syntactic sugar.
Probably if businesses are expecting people knowing exactly the technologies they're using, then they are going to find a lot of candidates.

Nowadays you could install a banking app on your smartphone, or getting SMS to have information on suspicious use of your credit cards or to authorize payments. In one case you have to trust an app, in the other case you can be targeted wit a SIM swap attack.

I have a plain old Mastercard credit card, with magnetic strip, chip and pin and wireless options, and embossed numbers.
Getting mugged at gunpoint near an ATM it's possible and happened in some crime infested areas, or pickpocketers swapping credit cards at ATM while secretly filming the PIN.

There are standards for home automation like KNX or propietary like BTicino MyHome that could be installed and don't need having connection with Internet to work. Not having TCP/IP access preclude to control the system from the smartphone, of course, but the system is operative, and it's possible to have a local server with an HTTP interface to send commands to the domotic system.

The solution I think it's simple. There are a lot of "safety" systems that are required on modern cars, like the lane assist or Intelligent speed Assist.
Make mandatory for cars have a double DIN receptacle and an ISO connector for power and loudspeaker connection for installing a car radio like was 30 years ago.
This also solves the problem of AM radio. If the owners want AM radio and maybe a musicassette player they could simply install a vintage car radio.