• Buy an external HDD
• backup any data you have on the rental computer
• bite the bullet that you probably won’t have a computer for a bit
• wipe the rental computer
• then put the amount spent each month on the rental into savings and buy and own a better computer with actually new hardware

People that complain about forced diversity are complaining about diversity. No one is forcing excessive diversity on you.

I really dislike the idea of “needs ring 0 = nothingburger”.

There’s plenty if ways to gain ring 0 access like a user to approving a UAC prompt… Or for an attacker to utilize any number of existing ring 0 escalation vulnerabilities on an unpatched system, or for a UAC bypass to be utilized, or for the attacker to establish a RAT on the system using a tech support scam or similar.

Difficult? Yes!

Only viable via a supply chain attack as some like to suggest? Absolutely not.

Narrowing to 3 is always difficult but these tend to shuffle around in the top spot

• The Outer Wilds

• Disco Elysium

• Legend of Zelda, Majora’s mask

Went from LastPass to Dashlane to self-hosted Bitwarden. $40/year for myself and a couple family members