How would you ever know you got banned because of something like that?

Huh? What is the mains cable mess for then?

Indeed, last time I paid for windows was like windows 7. Only free upgrades since then.

But fixing a bug is not as simple as “fork it or help fix it”, those are by far the most complicated options that only a tiny faction of users (can) take.

So a hobby as someone else pointed out?

Did you give it some days to finish processing in the background? That eats battery until it is done.