Yeah, but a PDF file is another thing. Anyway old DOOM works on a shoebox if you want and for sure also in the old UNIX.

I think so, if DOOM even works in a PDF file

https://doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf

And even on a pregnancy test stick

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-programmer-figured-out-how-to-play-doom-on-a-pregnancy-test/

Always bad when the net policy is made by old people which confuse an remote control with an smartphone.

As said, independent of the OS, every soft, add, extension, script you install without checking it, is an Malware vector. Windhawk even advice to check the script before you active it. All scripts are full listed in the app. There is nothing hidden https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk

No, after >30 years using PCs I’m very aware of this and what enter or leave the system.

If you like, with Windhawk you can have, without any problems, the look and feel of Windows 98 in Windows 11. The biggest problem in Windows is the amount of bloatware, spyware, services which nobody needs and other crap filling the memory, which it has by default. Luckily there are tons of FOSS apps out there which permits to show the middlefinger to M$ and turn it in a fast, small and reasonable private OS (my Windows has less than 800 MB in RAM (RAM 16GB -15,3 GB free) and is blazing fast.). All apps and tools I use are FOSS.

Cheaper than the creditcard test

Agree, but there are still differences. Not that the EU is better, but at least less evil (depending on the country)

Yes, this is why using Windhawk is mandatory in W11 (apart of Portmaster)

It’s absolute nonsense the MS argumentation about it, when a simple script of Windhawk with few lines solve this “problem” same as with the crappy W11 Startmenu.

Windhawk is something like an Userscript Manager, with tons of different scripts to change at the Milimetre instant any aspect of the UI, no restart needed, on off the change with a click. All script visible and editable.

“Your Privacy is our Business” is also a Google slogan

Yes, using it since 10 years as main browser. It’s the most advanced browser out there, good privacy, great ethics to the user by this EU company (employee owned cooperative in Norway), perfect transparency, great community, and yes it isn’t OpenSource, but source available (https://github.com/ric2b/Vivaldi-browser, https://vivaldi.com/source/), the proprietary part (5% of the UI script is 100% auditable and even moddeable by the user, in the forum they show how (naturally at own risk)). It’s Chromium based (de-googled), but not a simple fork like other.

If I don’t share it, I can’t visit the USA, nor if I share it, that’s why this is obsolete for me anyway. FTUS 🖕

The best is Portmaster, it monitors individually all traffic from installed apps and even the one form the OS itself, with the option to block what you don’t like, DNScrypt with a big filterlist and optional an (paid) SPN service (VPN which allowed to use different servers depending on the website). IMHO better and easier to handle as Pi-Hole, which don’t permit individual per app settings.

There are several apps to gut Windows, but the Optimizer is the most complete I know. The good thing of Windows is, that are tons of FOSS apps for it out there to show the middle finger to M$.

If you have to use Windows, there are at least two mandatory apps

https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer

https://safing.io/

Nowadays I prefer to traveling to North Corea, which has less conditions, than to the USA.

In Spain we have an roadside advertising for the Brandy de Jerez made by the Osborne Group, declared “cultural and artistic heritage of the people of Spain.”, the Osborne bull, which you can find everywhere in Spain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_bull