If the original game runs on Linux, sure.

Otherwise if the original game runs on proton/wine/bottles whatever, I guess it depends and you need to try.

My two cents: if the game already run on Linux, doesn’t matter if it’s emulated native or what, will run both original and pirated.

I had 4 of those nice things 4tb evos… Same model. Two died after a few years of being on use 24/7 in my server… Maybe three years?

Replaced with 6tb hdds and quite happy

Dosbox or some ports? You can run windows 3.11 inside that as well. Doubt wine support win16

Slskd

It used to be like that years ago. Nowadays it just sucks.

Yeah, I sure that would work, why didn’t I thought of it sooner?

No, here get a real public IP is not possible unless you get a much more expensive commercial non residential contract.

Being behind CGNAT unfortunately my seeding is limited…

No, I don’t like using a VPN with PF… If I spend money, I do for Usenet…

Readarr sucks (not due to being a bad software… Don’t get me wrong). Maybe due to how the media itself is messy, no good source like IMDb, messy releases that are hard to decypher… Even worse for non English languages, let me tell you.

Also, cannot manage ebook+audiobook and you need two instances for just that.

I gave up using it as well.

Calibre seems better to manage, and to search&download you can always use prowlarr directly.

Yes.

While there is no end to paranoia, I would call a VPN over sftp quite useless.

Unless, of course, the seedbox itself needs a VPN to be reached in the first place.

Good point, need to look into using an android emulator… But I would prefer a windows native…

Mostly us stuff, never heard of one in Europe

Running a business works better if you have a steady flow of income. I don’t blame them for trying.

But I vote with my wallet.

I stick to open source apps more and more, and not only for the lack of subscriptions.

I stay away from any subscription like that. It works like credit cart debt: you pile it and in no time you bleed money like no tomorrow.

I understand the need of the Dev for a reasonably guaranteed flow of money, specially for online services, but also keep a software house going cost money.

But I am free to choose where not to put my money.

Thankssss

Is there an Arr integration for slskd??? What? I need that!

Soulseek… checkout slskd, amazing little daemon.