I’ve been playing with 86Box lately to setup Windows 95 to play some old games.

Win95 has a bug where it doesn’t run on fast CPUs, so using one of the original CD images in a VM like KVM is not possible.

(I later found https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x which you can use to patch the install images)

I tried Bochs but it was impossible to use, it drops to a text debugger and wants you to connect over VNC which isn’t what I wanted anyway. PCem lost a lot of momentum after going unmaintained, and there is no Linux binary.

86Box has both AppImage and Flatpak, and comes with a nice configuration GUI. It’s easy to use and works well for what I want to do.

I like how it seems to properly emulate the BIOS and specific devices, so you can use the actual original drivers too.

Not really, there are already “quantum proof” encryption algorithms that systems are already moving to.

It won’t be an apocalypse where all your personal data is suddenly available at the click of a button. You need to be a billionaire launching a new social network to get that level of privacy invasion.