Most emulators are free software and work on Linux and have worked for a long time. As Android and Raspberry Pis have become quite popular as emulation systems, the free software emulators, which are easily portable to these ARM+Linux system, have taken off as the most popular emulators in general. Anything that’s also available on Android or RetroPie will work on Linux for sure. There’s an emulator for every popular console that works on Linux about as well as it does on Windows.

DOS games you can run in DOSbox. Pretty sure compatibility is 100%. This is also how e.g. GOG makes these games run on Windows, because modern Windows can’t run these games either without emulation.

As for old Windows games, it is worth trying Wine, the Windows compatibly layer. Volunteers have successfully been trying to get games (especially games actually!) to run on Linux since the 90s. Twenty-something years ago I was gaming on Linux playing Starcraft, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3 and god knows what. Anecdotally, some old Windows games that no longer run on Windows will work fine in Wine. A prominent example is The Sims 2. There’s a video out there of some millennial Sims streamer and housewife instructing her thousands of viewers on how to install Linux in order to get that game to run better.

Steam comes with a version of Wine, called Proton, so 90%+ percent of games on Steam run somewhere between fine and perfectly fine. Not everything though, you should check on protondb.com.

Playing in a VM is a terrible idea btw, the performance will suck. You don’t need to and don’t want to do that.

They are either trying to be an independent imperialist power, or they’re just doing the US empire’s bidding. Either way it’s imperialism. If you believe their insane plans will actually manifest (I doubt it), their goal is to be able to win the next round of war in eastern Europe. Clearly they’re not winning this round, so wherever the front settles, they want to be able to do re-match in couple of years.

I so hope this backfires. First of all, I don’t think they can pull it off anyway, the corruption and incompetence is off the charts with these people and that’s not due to lack of vision (which they also don’t have) or whatever, that’s systemic. All that money will go into private pockets and fuck-all will be delivered, and thank Allah for that.

Also, this will antagonize other EU countries (well, some of them, I assume the Baltics will hail their German overlords), making it so much easier for nationalist EU-skeptic politicians to gain support.

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/499987.ukraine-moskau-muss-brennen.html

Junge Welt reports that the Deutsches Freiwilligenkorps (DFK; I assume they go by Freikorps), made of German Neo-Nazi volunteers, will be integrated into the 49. storm battalion “Karpaten-Sitsch”:

Founded in 2014 after the Maidan coup by members of the Svoboda [“freedom”, formerly social-nationalist] party and the “Sokil” military sports group [article says “Wehrsportgruppe”; famously Wehrsportgruppe is what Nazis like to call their little militant clubs in Germany], the “Carpathian Sitsch” battalion, which has since been disbanded and reactivated in 2022, is a volunteer unit. It follows in the tradition of the “Carpathian Sitsch”, which was formed in 1938 on the initiative of the fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and wiped out in the fight for independence against Hungary.

The DFK to this day recruits from the milieu of the small party Der III. Weg [the third way]. The neo-Nazis have maintained contacts with Svoboda, Sokil and the “Azov” movement for years, collect donations for Ukrainian fascists and took part in a conference of the Fascist International in Lviv in August 2024 together with the DFK, the Russian Volunteer Corps [these are the Russian Nazis that raided into Russia in 2023] and other neo-Nazi units fighting for Kiev. The fact that the DFK congratulated Adolf Hitler on his “birthday” on their official social media channel on April 20 does not seem to bother the Ukrainian army leadership. Nor does the revanchist manifesto published by the DFK on the 80th anniversary of the liberation: “In Germany, the 8th of May 1945 has not been forgotten, and it will certainly not be celebrated!” declared the DFK, demanding that the German people show “the same courage, the same loyalty, the same willingness to sacrifice” as Hitler’s soldiers once did - “for a bright future in the glory of the old glory”.

I understand this is joke, but the F in PFAS “forever chemicals” is fluorine. You’d think the fluoride whackos would be all over this, after all it is a communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

To be clear, a bit of fluoride in the water is fine, the problem is that they made synthetic polymers out of carbon and fluorine and they don’t degrade and just accumulate in your blood and organs forever and disrupt whatever is normally supposed to be going on there.