What gets me about high tech outfits is their KISS OF DEATH to old operating system.
Bill Gates buried a time bomb in Windows XP and too may users got booted of in other words — LOCKED OUT. End of support should not be a ticket to force you to discontinue personal usage.
I keep a couple of XP systems around to run a 20 year old AutoCAD program. I occasionally have to update to new hardware. Recently XP stopped reloading onto new PCs, and reports that it needs registered with Microsoft. Of course, Microsoft has stopped doing this with XP. It turned out that I found a couple of easy methods on the internet wo work around this. These XP systems have also stopped connecting to the internet, as well, so I no longer even try. Thumb drives work just fine, and I can ignore virus protection since they’re never connected online, and Microsoft has no clue that I’m using these legitimate copies of XP.