I don’t recall even a linux based recovery distro with that. I remember Hirens had a lot of pirate stuff on it in it’s older versions, but that was a windows based recovery boot disk.

Well I would say, we can’t have our cake and eat it to. I mean admitted the option of a choice between a monthly subscription, and ads is pretty reasonable. But for the most part people seem pretty quick to go on a “no ads and no fees”. idea. Obviously there’s a point of implosion when it comes to demanding neither.

do we gotta use china as our example? A place with even worse controlled media, bad history of lying to WHO etc…