That’s an Asian Lady Beetle actually, not a ladybug. They’re an invasive species that was intentionally introduced in an attempt to control aphids and can sometimes but not always be differentiated from ladybugs by the color of their elytron (hard coating which protects their wings), which can be orange rather then red.

The virtual machine I installed windows on to play games with kernel-level anticheat and other such spyware apparently isn’t compatible with windows 11. That’s a positive for 2 reasons, which are:

1. It can’t run Windows 11, so no risk of a forced upgrade
2. Windows won’t constantly harass me to upgrade.

10/10 experience, would not give give Windows access to bare metal again.