A complete walkthrough of the legitimate ways to experience the games at the center of the 1983 crash and the era around it — official re-releases, subscription libraries, and properly licensed compilations.
The system clock inside WSL2 falls behind Windows' own clock, especially noticeably after your laptop sleeps and resumes. Here's why the VM's clock actually drifts, and how to force it back in sync.
WSL2's original networking design put it behind its own virtual network, invisible to the rest of your LAN by default. Mirrored networking mode, added later, takes a fundamentally different approach — and each has real tradeoffs.
At Build 2019, Microsoft revealed WSL2 — not an incremental update, but an entirely different architecture running a genuine Linux kernel inside a purpose-built lightweight virtual machine.
A complete walkthrough of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — finding old captures of a specific site, comparing how a page changed over time, and using it as a genuine primary source rather than just a curiosity.
Linux and Windows filesystems handle permissions, case sensitivity, and paths in fundamentally different ways. WSL's cross-OS file access works by translating between them at the protocol level — and that translation has real performance costs.
Ping works, but domain names won't resolve inside WSL2 — or the reverse. Here's how to actually diagnose whether the problem is DNS configuration, VPN interference, or the networking mode itself.
Eighteen months after its first public reveal, WSL stopped being an experimental preview feature — gaining full Microsoft support, multi-distro installs via the Microsoft Store, and Windows Server compatibility.
A complete walkthrough getting historical browsers running in a modern environment — through emulation, virtual machines, and preserved installers — to see the actual software behind the browser wars firsthand.
Task Manager shows vmmem consuming several gigabytes of RAM, even when you're not actively using WSL. Here's how to actually diagnose what's holding that memory, and how to cap it properly.