I switched to an ultrawide and i3 window manager at the same time, and it's been a game changer. I can't imagine going back to two side-by-side monitors. Being able to resize windows and not be restricted by the screen boundary is the real game changer for me.
I've been incrementally tweaking my desktop setup for a decade, and it's always nice to look back and see how much more productive I am than N years ago.
But I'm shocked at what a quantum leap in productivity switching to i3wm was, with an upfront cost that's actually pretty low.
The last piece of my desktop usage that isn't controllable and amenable to incremental improvements is the browser. This is unfortunately a pretty large chunk of my recreational use, so my next mini-projects are probably going to be around investing in getting more familiar with extensions.
That means the transponder became non-viable at that point. Any sort of in-air catastrophe could have caused that, including onboard fire.
Redundant airplane systems protect against component failure, but they tend to still be near each other. For example, if an AA gun were to tag the plane in the right place it could easily take out power to both a primary and backup.
It really doesn't look like a mid-air explosion. It was either a massive spontaneous fire for some reason (assuming the burning thing in the social media post was the plane) or it got shot down.
That doesn't mean it exploded mid-air. If it exploded mid-air where the FlightRadar24 data end, the debris field would be in the direction of the flight and spread wide. Debris field is in the opposite direction and elsewhere though.
Also the way the debris were scattered on the ground suggests an explosion. This also correlates with what they said about no mayday call from the aircraft. It was taken down or it was a collission with a drone or something like that.
