And good luck finding somewhere to buy a single license of that. And even then, there's a high chance software you use (browser, IDEs, ...) will not keep getting updates after 2025.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/w...
[1] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-sec...
How important that is, no idea! The firewall is probably passable but I generally don't know your risk profile.
Applications and the rest of the system offer a lot of surface area
Error code: PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
There's an irony there somewhere.(It's probably because I disable some cipher suites).
A game released 12 years ago and still gets regular patches? Completely fine with that.