Wow those last two are some pretty bad fakes. The first one I could blame on like file corruption or something, but I can't think of any way to explain the last two.
I haven't noticed any ads in Windows 10 LTSC on my gaming computer. I do have multiple layers of ad blocking though so it's possible they are being blocked by something and I just don't notice. Laptop is Debian.
For real my ex is a union welder and she made stupid money during the pandemic. Construction is considered essential and she got mad overtime with all the people out sick. They basically took zero safety precautions and she gave me the pleasure of being one of the first 100 people to catch covid in my city of ~200,000 people.
I had campus security called on me because I was using an acoustic coupler on a payphone to a free dial-up provider to browse the internet via links. Luckily the security guard understood what I was talking about and was chill, but he couldn't understand why I wasn't just using the campus WiFi.