Ah okay. I saw it on Steam listed as just MS Flight Simulator. Assumed it was the latest one.

I read the download size is like 150GB. That’s why I didn’t buy it on sale.

I used to use Ubuntu years ago. The beauty of that distro is that it will fuck itself up. No action required on your part. Versions after 16 would black screen themselves after an upgrade, or the mouse pointer would go on vacation. Even better, it would say your 100% correct password was incorrect and lock you out.

You’re not really any worse off with something like Arch, aside from the initial install. Overall, less headaches for me.

I just wanted a distro built to my specs, up to date, uses pacman, not run by a for-profit company, with good documentation. The hype is mostly Reddit elitism and gatekeeping. I like that nobody has slipped branding and extra bookmarks into my browser.

There was more than one incident. There’s a whole list of incidents.

You could probably run Linux on a binary abacus. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bbinary_Abacus_002.jpg

In the case of the soldiers in Iraq, China had installed an independent chip specifically for keylogging. I don’t know if replacing the boot loader would even solve that.

They had a Chinese back door in the firmware. Don’t know if that’s still the case. https://www.techworm.net/2015/08/lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-to-have-a-bios-level-backdoor.html They’ve had several major (intentional) security flaws over the years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo They had a modified UEFI that allows insecure execution of EXEs. The Lenovo laptops given to US military in Iraq had keyloggers that sent all inputs back to China.

Programmers I’ve worked with all prefer MacBooks. And yes, you can run Linux on a Mac too.

LibreSUSE 😎

I heard the best deals happen closer to the end of the sale. Not sure if true.

Some software check for updates without requiring the packages to be signed. The ISP could do a HTTP redirect to a fake torrent client update. The program says “Update available”. It downloads a malicious version.

Other ISPs have been caught injecting adverts into their traffic. So there’s ways.

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This happened with my old iPhone 6 too. It was a rare bug where I needed to reset the Network settings. For some reason that fixed it. Guess I could try that.

Maximum Capacity: 91%

I wish. But with iOS 17, my iPhone 11 went from needing a charge once a day to every four hours. Apple called it a bug, but they’ve been sued for doing stuff like this.

iOS 19 will introduce something that deliberately cuts that battery life in half. I speak from experience.

I can’t read the article because of a full screen Cookie Choices pop-up that I can’t dismiss. ☠️

Just put a number in front. I’m not gonna recommend any specific one because some of them have disturbing content.