I’m glad I deleted that Windows partition since I didn’t use it anyways. And in typical Microsoft fashion they don’t acknowledge there’s even a problem leaving people in the dark. I’m never going back to Windows.

I have a couple of external USB drives I bought on sale I backup my NAS to once a week. It’ll protect against drive failure at least. Almost got hit by ransomware a while back so I don’t keep anything on there without some backup.

I’ve tried it. I like the idea of Tor for torrents, you don’t need a VPN to torrent. But found the speeds to be really bad and the content was a fraction of the clearnet trackers. Might check it out again though it’s been a while.

You need to bridge your network adapter so you are on the same network subnet. When you bridge the VM appears on the same network. The default is NAT which by default is a different subnet. Like you, the host are on 192.168.1.0/24 and the VM, the guest is on 192.168.122.0/24. Unless you have two network adapters(if so you could let the VM have it) unlike most people bridged is what you’re looking for. VPN tunnel is usually when you are remote of your VM so unnecessary IMO.

They want you to buy their new games. They also want you to be more likely to buy the old games again when they eventually do a sloppy re-release of the old games or tie it to increase the value of their subscription offerings. Basically to make more money.

Thanks for reminding me. Yeah I need to backup my ROM library of old games. Got most of them from Vimm’s lair earlier this year. They had to take down a lot of the games shortly after cause threats of law suit from Nintendo, Sega among others. It’s just absurd many of the games on there are not even available legally anymore.