Not the kind of “aggressive pro-state” we needed, but the “pro-state” we deserved.

I get that a lot with all kinds of services. Specially digital stuff. And for MMOs it is more common than not.

Recently the Path of Exile game stopped letting me purchase cosmetics because they changed their payment processor and the new one doesn’t like my email address.

I would try finding some de-bloated windows iso and try the VM route anyway. If your pc can run windows directly without much trouble, it should be able to run a lighter version of it on a VM too. You can dedicate most of your hardware resources to the VM and just no run anything else alongside it when you are working on an iPhone.

But that’s the opposite order in which my generation experienced it.

And it would’ve been so much easier to plant the stuff at his house while he was being taken. Except that would have required a small amount of thinking.