Looks like fun, and the updated graphics will be a good upgrade.

Enjoyed the episode as always

Correct, if that machine goes down you won’t have any notification. I was thinking along the lines of you are hosting services on one machine while the computer itself is acting as the host or hypervisor.

Quite a lot of work went into your program, I bet you learned some good code while writing it. I’ve used a simple Windows program called Easy Net Monitor. You can specify IP address or hostname connectivity tracking with email alerts.

https://easynetmonitor.en.lo4d.com/windows

Not sure what changes I’d like, maybe better character movement? This reminds me I haven’t finished this on my PS3.

PS3, modded with HEN 1.5 TB SSD.

I seek out phones with audio jacks. My current Moto G Power 2020 has one and I use it all the time. No dongles or adapters in the car or on various headphones. Plus I actually use the FM Radio built into the phone and that uses the wire for the headphones as an antenna. I just cut off some old earbuds and plug that in, then direct the audio to either the phone speaker itself or BT.

Motorola has it too.

What if you have your ID on you?

You can prevent this. Click remind later then go to your notifications in the settings app. Uncheck “Suggest ways I can finish setting up” and anything else you don’t want to see.

They were 2 shades of gray, not white.

Most of the time I use the pdp Wired Xbox controller, but sometimes I’ll use the 8bitdo SNES30. Logitech Rumble Pad 2 still gets some use and if I’m feeling especially nostalgic I’ll use the SN Program pad with a SuperSmartJoy that converts it to USB.

Couple of Dell and Lenovo mini PCs

• Custom browser start page
• File server
• Media server with Tonido
• Jellyfin
• Vectorpod

The other machine just has random VMs for testing things like:

• Owncloud
• LAMP
• Whatever else I run into

I don’t like it and try not to play games where it’s a requirement. Especially in single player games.