The only times it has failed on me was because either the storage device or RAM were faulty. It’s definitely worth it to check both for errors every once in a while, as financially devastating as it is to replace either.

The old version. It’s an experience closer to release, but safer.

Not too likely at this point. The game is relatively old and few people still care about it. Not enough clout for someone to take another shot at it.

It’s also been heavily discounted already, which means there’s even less of an incentive.

Eh, it’s really not a bad game. The villain is highly charismatic, visuals are very good, gunplay is as fun as in FC3 and 4 again and the world is large and detailed. It’s a solid power fantasy, far better than FC5 in my eyes.

Hypervisor is much riskier on Windows and more complex to use. Empress is a conventional crack.

However, Empress’ crack is based on an old build of the game, with much less content and fewer bugfixes.

After their recent Nazi symbolism affair I’m not really feeling like spending any money there.

They knowingly used runes associated with Nazism in a promotional newsletter in a manner that only Nazis are using them - and they knew they were doing this, because this e-mail was deliberately not sent to users who had set their account to German; this kind of thing is illegal in Germany. If you had set your account to English, you still received the mail, even if you were in Germany. What followed was a dishonest non-apology, while the developer of the game they were promoting was utterly befuddled why gog had done this to their title.

Because you know they’ll always work. Linking directly to posts on various pages comes with the risk of directing people to dead or altered content.

Spotify competitor. Pretty decent in my experience, although it’s been years since I last used it.

Yup. Recording TV shows and movies aired on TV was far more common than copying tapes. No copy protection to worry about (although there were some attempts to prevent fast-forwarding over ad segments, IIRC) and you only needed a single tape mechanism instead of two.

Wow, that’s oldschool. I haven’t even thought about IRC for at least 15 years. How actively is this still being used in general?

You likely already have a smartphone, so why not just get a controller that plugs directly into its USB-C port? Then load up whichever emulator you want. Chances are, your phone is considerably faster than most emulation handhelds anyway.

Cool, but doesn’t help with serious exploits. I’d even argue that most of this is little more than security theater in this day and age, relics from an age when users dialed into computers at universities and other large organizations through physical terminals.

Linux isn’t inherently safer. It’s only less of a risk to run pirated games on it, because fewer people are using it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/no-linux-is-not-more-secure/

Common misconception. It’s not a PC. Many of the components are close to standard, but their implementation isn’t. Lots of proprietary shenanigans going on. It also lacks a typical BIOS, which alone makes it not an x86 PC.

Worse than OG Xbox emulation? Last time I checked, it was rough to say the least, with absurd hardware requirements.

Development costs are much bigger of an issue than production costs. Physical media disappearing changes nothing about this.

I mean, those games from the time you decided not to play games are extremely easy to access these days, with the exception of dead multiplayer titles. There is something to be said about being young and having much more of an ability to experience wonder and enjoyment than later though.

It’s not like the Chinese are any better. I want both sides to lose.

Most of it comes down to the user. You need to be precise about naming and sorting media with all of these media libraries. With non-standard media - like fan edits, combined episodes and the likes - my usual shortcut is to place it in bonus feature of regular media.

It’s not better at this.

You will also not find as good of a support of Jellyfin by many devices like Smart TVs, game consoles, etc. Also, it just doesn’t work as reliably in many ways, like identifying media, transcoding it and sorting it correctly. It is an alternative to Plex in the same way that Gimp is an alternative to Photoshop: Superior in terms of licensing, but not as an actual piece of software.