For anything that HAS to work and only runs on Windows (eat a dick Siemens) I put it in a VM with no network connection. A physical machine that gets regular updates is too unstable to rely on.
When ever I'm teaching a new guy I try to get them on board with using VMs at at minimum for reliability and a VM under Linux if they are interested.
That sucks. About 5 years ago I put ideology one peg above entertainment and just avoid games that use Windows only anti-cheat, I don't get to play the biggest releases but there are literally thousands of other games that work perfectly and are just as fun.
If I were you I would keep my Windows gaming machine as a single function device. Play games, get all the MS updates and 3rd party spyware, don't let it touch anything you want to keep private or safe.
Make the switch, even if it's on an old laptop first just to try it out. About 90% of my Steam library runs without any extra effort needed, a few games needed tweaks that I found in the steam message boards, and 5 or 10 just refused to work at all.
It actually sounds like people who were a lot less useful than rocket scientists.
Solar is fast to install and "cheap" but the lifespan of panels is no more than 20 years, and batteries last 1s of years if cycled every day. Not to mention Ontario only gets ~1200kWh/m^2^ per year of sunlight, in the southern US it's >2000.
Nuclear is very expensive and takes a long time to build you are getting a plant that will last for decades without needing to have every part replaced and gives you more than 20kWh/m^2^ including the area taken up by support buildings and employee parking. (The Pickering plant is about 1km^2^ and puts out 23.6TWh)
If it's a hybrid, maybe tell them to keep an eye on the 12v battery.
It's far worse than overcomplicated, it's negligently designed. The CAN bus is exposed through the exterior lighting in many new vehicles giving anyone with a $3 dongle access nearly all functions (door locks, alarm, engine control).
Would be a shame if Canada had to up the price to make up for the slump in sales. It costs a lot of money to run a smelter and lower production increases the overhead per ton of product.
You can not steal what you can not own. ☠️
I am having second hand experience this month with a 2024 RAV4 that has been valued (by the dealer that sold it) at 60% of the sticker price after 13 months and 12,000km.
They are also a dickbag company with a garbage platform.
I'm not familiar with it but you might get lucky and it will work with Wine. It took me years before I was comfortable dropping Windows but I am a lot less anxious now about having an update randomly brick my PC or wipe out my settings/tweaks.
Good luck!