I buy groceries, bus tickets, and motorway tolls with a credit card too. But I always pay the balance in full. I don't have to deal wit change coins and whatever.

I remember that CDROM frenzy. I also remember I bought the Infomagic Linux Developer's Resource with Redhat, Debian and Slackware on CD. It was very useful when one had only dial up for downloading stuff.
Shareware disks were sold in magazines because at the time was the faster way for a lot of people to get to ftp archives. They were useful for some people.
On the other hand AI slop doesn't have any utility for the people and fills the podcasting space with noise, basically.

I think the solution it's simple: leave the option to get the car without infotainment system. If a customer wants Apple car play, he could mount an Apple CarPlay radio, if another cudtomer it's ok with a stereo cassette and AM/FM radio he will mount an old school radio.
I could understand that having a standard infotaiment system it's less expensive for car makers and has some advantages for some customers, but for other customers it's better to have other options.

You can easily find used thermal printers on ebay for cheap and with some effort you could make very convincing receipts, but of course you have to buy them and thermal rolls, send them the data to get a suitable print, and hope that nobody notices that the back of the roll it's generic and it's not branded by the store.

This was done before AI, asking an architect or at least a surveyor to use a 3D CAD do design a sample house. With AI tools a real estate agent could throw an AI generated slop and call it a day, but I think that a sloppy house doesn't attract potential customer, and because any sane potential customer asks for a survey before buying, I don't see cost savings.

If:

• Spam is unwanted e-mail
• I receve official documents via registered e-mail
• I don't want to receive speeding tickets, that now are sent via e-mail

then speeding tickets are spam.

BTicimo Myhome operates without needing an Internet connection, has a wired bus, so id doesn't need even tcp/ip connectivity. The server unit could connect to internet, if one wants Alexa integration or use it from a smartphone, but the system works standalone.

Vending machine outside pharmacies are quite common in Italy. For the specific case of antibiotics you must have a doctor's prescription to get one, so you have to ask the pharmacist for it, also if you have the prescription made by your GP, antibiotics are free.

I never used delivery services. Maybe because if I want a burger I could phone to the pub across the road and then walk here to get it, and if I walk a couple block I could get one from the scary clown multinational, if I ever want. Living in an area with mixed use has big advantages. The problem is that building residential only areas it's a big mistake that isn't normally seen even for the people living in these areas.

It depends where one lives. If one lives in a typical US suburb, with nothing around and unusable sidewalks, it's a lot less work go to a delivery vehicle than going to a pizza place.
On the other hand in a typical Italian city you exit your house and have a couple of pizza restaurants at walking distance. Is some places there are mobile LPG-powered pizza ovens, sometimes bolted on an Ape Piaggio trike and sometimes as trailers, thar go in suburban areas to sell freshly made pizza.

Not to mention sharing the name with tho famous people like Paolo rossi and Paolo Rossi

In some upscale apartments trare was a phone socket in the bathroom, because before cellphones and before wireless phones it always happened that wile you were in the toilet the phone rang. It was a nuisance interrupting inbetween to answer the phone.
I have also seen a wired wireless reciever in the bathroom.

Amazon Ends Shared Prime Free Shipping Outside Your Home
I suppose that giving less services for the same amount of money make people less interested to a subscription, especially if one had that for the package delivery instead of mainly show watching.

I'm Italian and live in Italy. I like Chinese food and I never had a problem to order in a Chinese restaurant, because all the waiters have a basic knowledge of Italian and anyway the menus are always dual language and with a number near the food. Some restaurant give you an order card where you mark what you want. You can solve the problem literally with a sheet of paper and a pencil: no AI has to be involved.

I have one nearby, it's near a church and you find a non at the ticket box. They don't show blockbusters, but niche author movies, like Fremont, or Hit man.