Here is my preferred solution that will never happen:
Divide all media audio into separate tracks for dialogue, music, sfx, etc., and let the users control the volume of each separately. To avoid having an easily ripped pure music track, perhaps premix the other tracks in at 10% or so (in a logarithmic scale) and make that the minimum volume of any track other than music.
I've had good luck with rubbing alcohol to remove the gooey mess. You'll end up with bare plastic instead of the rubber grip, but that's an improvement over sticky.
Things don't actually have purposes. That's a human invention. (Adaptations can improve the chances of spreading, so we say "it does this" or "it's for that", but it's not intentional on the part of the genes, proteins, etc.)
Anyway, about your first question, it seems there are three main ideas about how viruses originate.
I'm guessing it's because they can't compete with store brands and other cheap competition. My family buys this stuff, and we never pay the premium for the brand name.
The local PBS station carried a science show called Newton's Apple. Not only was the content amazing to a nerdy kid, the theme song was way too cool for a PBS show.
It is very clearly written so individuals won't be able to buy a printer without this junk in the firmware. Afterwards maybe they can fix it, but according to the article it includes a provision that 3D printers (or CNC, etc) can't even be bought online in NY.
I don't know what OP used, but I have done similar with a reversed lens on a DSLR camera. I got an adapter that goes on the lens where you normally put filters or the lens cap, and the other side of the adapter connects to the camera mount, so the lens is backward and works kinda like a microscope.
Unfortunately I think those pictures are long gone.
I switched to Smart Launcher because it was the only one I found that mentioned being able to import my Nova backup. The transfer wasn't perfect, but extremely good.
That's true, and I should have been less absolute in my language. However all of those activities were niche and actively scary sounding to the 'normies' (and to a lesser extent still are)
I actually did find "warez" on BBSs before I had Internet access. But I really think even finding BBS numbers in the back of a magazine and trying them out put me outside most computer users of the time.
Here is my preferred solution that will never happen:
Divide all media audio into separate tracks for dialogue, music, sfx, etc., and let the users control the volume of each separately. To avoid having an easily ripped pure music track, perhaps premix the other tracks in at 10% or so (in a logarithmic scale) and make that the minimum volume of any track other than music.