All this COVID/jab bullshit is just one gigantic distraction. I wish everyone were as passionate about audits as they were this farce. THAT's why Trump tells you to just take the shot. It's a nothingburger. I'll sign it just because it's a good idea, but where's my pre-fab audit demand form to send to my local governing bodies?
The article was probably made in 2016, and amended for the COVID-19 crap. There was just no edit date/notification. It's also from buyandsell.gc.ca which seems to be some kind of ad? Trying to look into it myself and not getting these results. Searching for buyandsell.gc.ca returns a familiar result but no mention of grenades and tear gas.
I don't know about harmless. Even if you use scripts to disable all the baked in spyware, with every update Micro$oft re-enables them and you have to go through the scripts again. It's very tedious, and highly suspicious.
Certainly they aren't planting meltdown/spectre (nuclear grade viruses) type stuff in there, but at this point I have no faith or trust in Micro$oft.
At this point I wouldn't be using any Windows version above 7. Security patches be damned. If you're still holding onto it for games, give Linux a go. Steam's Proton works surprisingly well for a lot of things and Lutris and other services exist to make third party stuff such as League of Legends etc easy to install and get running.
It's not perfect, but it's good enough that I'm full time now and have no intentions of going back.
How about that time an Indian news outlet got caught using footage of ARMA 3 and said it was an attack on Afghanistan.
https://www.pcgamer.com/arma-3-pakistan-footage/
https://www.siasat.com/republic-tv-shows-video-game-as-pakistan-bombing-panjshir-2188445/ etc.
There are still some non-believers roaming about, but Q definitely brought me back. I'm grateful, even if it doesn't turn out quite like I hope it has helped me in many ways. I'm losing weight, breaking addictions and trying to get closer to God. Wins all around.
+1 for swords. Not only are they quite the fashion statement, it'd give talented blacksmiths a lot more work.