yep! I've found out browsing hacking/spamming site and i've found something too good to be true, it downloaded archive nested inside other archive and in it was silngle .lnk file leading to "the resource". Peeking inside i've found powershell executing base64 (or base32?) encoded script (it's got commandline option for that. if you want to ask wtf ask microsoft, and tell me), it dl'd some exe from some site and ran it, site was down alredy.
Mastodon i guess.
They will not because it wouldn't be profitable to them.
Tried and can confirm almost every webpage even static ones which could be simple as rock needs truckload of bloat js code to be loaded from ext servers.
Now i wonder what it does when battery dies, whether it wipes itself or not. And where it stores it's keys, in TPM or in RAM or where.
afaik audio hookups are recording of radio broadcasts for impaired not unauthorised rips of media used in cinema or recordings made using some tricks with wires and clamps.
yt-dlp does a great job at ripping on majority of websites. If yt-dlp can't rip something then likely there is service-specific tool to do that i.e tidal-dl for Tidal (hi-fi music service). There's also a hardware method that involves cheap chineese hdmi splitters (it needs to be a cheap one, b/c they lack support for DRM) and hdmi capture card. Sometimes it's DVD or blu-ray ripping.
Cloud and "serverless" solutions
Asimov's Foundation series (two times polish translation and once original) and The Hitchikerms Guide to Galaxy by Adams Douglas (once in polish, twice original)
Try to shine strong flaslight trough it, if you'll see traces of wire it's a RFID/NFC sticker. Those are used for identification.
Why those coders haveto do a new app instead of doing work on briar?
If you aren't strictly concerned with having it losless you can check out yt-dlp and download straight from youtube.