I tried downloading the BF6 free demo and I had to jump through a bunch of hoops trying to get it to run just to find that because the last time I used my EA account was a decade ago, my Steam account is banned from their servers until I go through customer support to unlock it.

99% of the time the “other program” is a minimized file browser window open to the drive.

Their Game Preservation Program (the thing the subscription is nominally for) is games that they maintain, so they probably do need to license them. And they do need a dev team to work on it, even if they do take advantage of things like existing community mods to make the job easier.

There’s a huge difference between making a PCB and a modern processor.

I would actually love to take 3300! That sounds fun.

As for 4020, writing performant code in Python typically means calling into libraries that are written in C.

Prism Launcher shows up in flat hub (the “app store” that comes with Bazzite).

It manages different Minecraft instances of different versions, and helps manage mods, texture packs, shaderpacks, etc.

(But in general, all versions of Minecraft: Java Edition support Linux, and most if not all Minecraft launchers, including the official one, support Linux)

Yes Steam is the main tool Im using to run games, even non-Steam games.

Bazzite also comes with Lutris which will set up some wine wrappers for you, which work fine, but Steam gives you things like Steam Input. I’ve never seen a controller mapper as good as Steam Input.

I don’t know what the performance comparison between Valve’s Proton and current FOSS variants of Wine is.

My current workflow is to use Lutris to manage games from GoG (no GoG Galaxy on Linux). I install them via Lutris, and then add them as non-Steam games to Steam, which lets me use Proton and Steam Input. The only game I’ve installed so far that I’m not running through Steam right now is Minecraft.

The only loss is I can’t run Destiny 2 on Linux due to its invasive anti-cheat, but I was on the verge of quitting D2 anyway. Note that some games with invasive anti-cheat can still be run through proton, it depends on the specifics.

I’m trying out Bazzite, and although it does take a little tweaking sometimes, I haven’t encountered a game I can’t run yet, including features like HDR and DLSS.

Does it have a 3D display?

Probably necessary for driving in Boston

My experience with PvPvE games is they tend to be incredibly toxic, with some people just trying to get started, and others picking on them for fun.

I have several friends who vow not to play PvPvE games again after bad experiences in games like Last Oasis and Worlds Adrift, although they were interested in playing both of those games in a PvE format.

Personally I find the extra danger from considering other players “another type of enemy” to be interesting. But also those types of games tend to breed to most toxic communities.

I’ve gotten macOS to run in a virtual machine.

I think I used https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

It doesn’t look like it works very well. If I’m reading their results section correctly, it works less than 20% of the time on real world problems.

They did train a model specifically for decompiling.

I launched 2 million people into your mom last night

I have a foldable Bluetooth keyboard that I sometimes use with an ssh app on my phone

I have broken off one of the door handles on my car.

Some of those services are pretty easy to set up, some might be more complicated. You’d have to look around for open source projects for those services and see if you can find ones you like. It will take more time to get it initially set up than to maintain, but expect to fix something that breaks every once in a while.

As for cost, probably like a few hundred to a thousand USD can get a reasonable computer for this. You don’t need a GPU, but want a decent CPU, plenty of RAM, and a LOT of storage. Look for companies auctioning off old servers.

Loosely I’d say expect this project to be a whole hobby.

As the result of a single misconfigured security setting on my Android, I was locked out of my Google Account on my phone AND all of my PCs.

Just a heads up on what you are getting yourself into, if you fuck up your self hosted setup badly enough there is no recovery.

That isn’t necessarily intended to scare you off from self hosting, just that the first and most important lesson to learn is to have a good system of backups that are backed up automatically, are easy to recover from, and are separated enough from other copies of the data that if something goes terribly wrong one copy will survive.

I’d love to try it, but I imagine it will take 20 years for something like this to come even close to usable as a daily driver.