Good call! I already did this… wasn’t sure if there was a better way other than installing steam on the vm and logging into my steam account to see which ones were installable. I suppose this doesn’t tell me how well they’ll play though does it… 🤔

A NAS is exactly what I’m considering doing with it. Good call!

I’m building a new PC because my current one is quite old. I won’t retire it though, and have yet to figure out what I’ll do with it (probably stick another Linux distro on it too 😆). I’m hoping to take advantage of having a brand new setup as an opportunity to be done with Windows completely.

Thanks for the distrochooser link. It was helpful and pointed me to Fedora 😀

I know a guy who used to run one of these businesses. He pivoted to something else because of the expenses, and hardware wasn’t the biggest. The monthly license fees for games are outrageous when you want to provide them to the public. Which means you have to constantly bet on which game’s demand will outweigh its cost on a monthly basis.

Before COVID, his place was very busy. I went many times and it was a lot of fun. His business was profitable, but because of the cost of games still not super successful.

I agree that the expense of paying someone to run the spot would quickly outpace the cost of hardware, but in his case he was running the whole thing himself. Even with nobody to pay for their time, his margins were never great.

Then COVID came along. That really killed it. No one wants to wear a VR headset that was just worn by a sweaty stranger minutes earlier during a pandemic.

A single remote that turns on my PC and TV

Isn’t the price advertisers pay driven completely by the intermediaries (google and such) and advertising costs could continue to grow? Can’t content producers unite (unionize) and get their piece?

I’m 100% against ads. I pay to not see them. I think advertisers would pay 10x for 👀 compared to what they currently pay.

Are we talking about eating the rich? I’m hungry.