I thought of that too, but then realized they need the latest graphic card updates to run Google, Amazon and Microsoft mass-surveillance applications!

Exactly. Those russian CS gamers are the worst scum in the world and deserve to be (cybernetically) wacked.

What would you personally do with that pressure if you lived in Moscow? At best get beaten in a protest.

How do you do that?

Yeah, when I read this I was like ‘is anyone still denying ads use of microphone?’ Eight years ago I would be called paranoid, but now everybody experienced smartphone at it’s best.

Still, as from a mechanical engineer perspective I would trust slightly more a combustion motor system to work offline rather than an electrical, where I could never know how the motor really works and relays on.

Personally I enjoy driving a 1987 bensine Ford.

Beautiful

The difference may be Windows forces to update, while i.e. Ubuntu has several older versions still working.

From the article: ‘So I went to install the same Windows update on a laptop, which actually resulted in it failing and me having to do a system restore. Once the system restore…’

Who needs to continue reading the article before realizing the malware is Windows itself?