Flatfire

Seeing as you’re running this from a laptop, was this speed test performed on a wired connection?

For self-hosting services you want to access remotely, you may find this to be exceptionally limiting. It may not be too bad if you live alone, and you’re sure no one else is using your network when you’re gone, but other devices performing routine updates may be enough to disrupt your outgoing connection. Additionally, that ping would indicate the speed test is being run from somewhere quite far from you. Latency that bad isn’t a great time for applications that might expect a consistent response time.

As for streaming those FLACs from your server while at home: You’re not going to struggle loading these files, because your local network is likely running at least at gigabit speeds. That speed test isn’t representative of your network as a whole, but just your internet connection.

Well, I’m sad to report it certainly isn’t a one-click launch for that game. I came across the original files, but it seems those 16-bit titles are still unevenly supported. It doesn’t help that i386 support was removed from the Linux kernel a while back.

It very well might.

Also TIL the original developer still sells boxed copies of this thing. That’s crazy. It also seems like they’ve updated fhe binaries for 32-bit systems so it should run under modern Windows.

Heroic is singlehandedly the best tool I’ve had for getting seemingly any Windows game to work as needed. I don’t know what they do differently than Bottles or Lutris under the hood but good lord the “just works” aspects of it are glorious.

Janky old DX8 title? Bam, now it runs in Vulkan with proper API extensions and directinlut wrappers. Got a weird, 16-bit Windows 3.1 title? Look at that, it works too. The only seeming exceptions are where there legitimately just isn’t support yet via Proton or DXVK and that’s an ever narrowing gap

Sequel run is focused on his kid

That seems like a rather arrogant tone to take. Reverse proxies are complicated. Easy to set up, but challenging to configure depending on what your needs are. Not everyone wants a homelab.

Everyone’s journey starts somewhere and sometimes people’s needs just don’t extend beyond the easier choices available.

Doesn’t seem to apply to Canada (yet)