Switch to Linux. I did it a few months ago and I have zero complaints, even in gaming.
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Workplaces are all about the apps. If those apps you need only run in Windows, that's what you run. Believe me, businesses would LOVE to cut license costs.
I was getting a couple of pop up ads in my Win10 install, and I switched a couple of months ago. The more I looked at gaming, the more I realized it could be done.
Ad block is NOT piracy. And use Ublock Origin.
Based on my experience working in a call center, I wouldn't call it unnecessary. People are fucked up.
Whole point of the Hyperloop was to stop California from building out high speed rail. And it worked. Musky thought it would cut into his EV sales.
Steve did it with Newegg. Tech Jesus has balls when gamers/enthusiasts are getting screwed.
E:D has the basics of a good game, but never builds upon them. FDev is deathly afraid of player agency. They want you to play like it's on rails in a single player game, but have it an "MMO" for the PVP.
The potential problem is they waited too long to make season 2 and killed the momentum. Wednesday on Netflix is in the same boat.
Use Firefox. The crypto bros running Brave have been caught multiple times gathering and selling user data. You use Chrome as the base when you want to hoover data.
Going that way is a great way to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Messing with their equipment is going not going to end well.