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 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.

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.

LibreSUSE 😎

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

HTTPS would prevent advert injection, assuming you didn’t accept a bad certificate at any point. But if they control your router and infrastructure, they can still redirect you to other pages however they want.

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. ☠️

As a side note, EA has basically locked me out of my entire library and I gave up trying to fix it. Terrible launcher.

I use Arch by the way.

It’s a vendor specific feature, as opposed to something any graphics chip can use. It’s kinda like… endorsing a closed source driver feature.