It’s not drama, I’m just surprised is all. He’s usually very good about his accuracy, so when the entire premise is wrong I would have expected him to retract the video instead of leaving a comment someone can miss.

It’s a pretty big mistake, though given it’s his second (casual) channel it is very low stakes.

He can’t posit that re-releases are being done on single layer DVDs to save money, but use bootlegs as proof. Bootlegs aren’t a DVD release done by the distributor. That’s a pretty fatal flaw in logic.

It’s the equivalent of “Steam games are getting re-released in a weird way” and linking to Pirate Bay torrents, and the entire video is about how cheap games have gotten since they don’t have Steam features like achievements and cloud-save.

I’m surprised this video is still up, since the entire premise is false. They are bootlegs he bought off ebay, not official releases.

Not sure if it’s the one you are referring to, but AI gave discounts on flights.

I had dabbled with Linux over the years, starting with Lubuntu reviving an old Dell 120L during college. When I moved to university they gave us all Macbooks to work with in the IT department. OS X never clicked with me, so I set up a VM with Linux to perform my day to day work. I instantly became the Linux guy because of that… so any tickets that came in for Linux troubleshooting got routed to me.

It just sort of made sense to try a Linux build after that, since I couldn’t afford a Windows license after I lost access to MSDN.

I wonder if Windows Defender is parsing the hosts file and flagging specific entries. Perhaps your program knows what is flagged through trial & error, while I did more of an aggressive blanket approach.

It’s the only thing I can think of.

Windows Defender will pick up any alterations to hosts file and revert it back to default. You have to whitelist the file before setting up any changes.

I know you are asking for FOSS alternatives, but for those who are looking to just restore the old programs:

https://win7games.com/

Burned optical media shelf life can be as little as 5 years, so I don’t think it should be recommended for long-term storage.

Oh! I know this one! ReactOS!