Made me think of the first season of Halt and Catch Fire.

Shudder. I had this weird brand laptop… Sotec IIRC and there just wasn’t a modline that ever got it all right.

Xserver… Somehow trying to find the magic string of letters and numbers that made your screen work.

The trouble for me was always getting people to use the controllers. I had some success with some family members using bubbleupnp on their Android phones. But the separation between sources, renderers and controllers is a little confusing for non technical people

DLNA is going to be your best bet, but it’s such a deep and convoluted rabbit hole. There’s a lot of ways to configure a setup.

Source for that last one? I have some in laws I’d like to pass the reference to.

Thanks for answering, I didn’t see this.

The homeassist app let’s you do that.

Well there were outbreaks before. They were handled by the people that are supposed to handle it. Covid… Well the people that are supposed to handle it were fired and and the administration in charge thought a pandemic would be good to thin out the city voters block.

Exactly, a millennial has now clue about the newfangled kids stuff. Just hit “close friends”

To be fair a hotplate could play games better than a p4 and do it while staying cooler.

I have a box with 10 old laptops that I keep around, just for that. Unreal tournament 2004, Insane, Brood Wars and all the Id classics. I don’t get to set it up a lot, but when I do it’s always a hit.

First search result I got was https://github.com/pureqml/qmlcore Never used it, but seems good.

We did it guy’s! They said it couldn’t be done. We showed them, those stupid, liberal, egg heads. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! /s

The putt putt line of games. They run on scummvm and my kids love them. Later kings quest, and stardew valley. The lego marvel super heroes on Xbox 360 (I think there’s a pc version) has an entire Manhattan island that they can roam around freely and interact with.

Another Rider user. I write mainly backed code, and integrations etc. Work is Rider and Datagrip on windows. Home is Debian KDE with Rider and Datagrip. I love it. If only I can convince my it group to allow Debian on my work computer.

I’ve been using an open garage device I ordered from https://opengarage.io/ for years. It works great with home assistant or by itself. (their opensprinkler control is great too)

Loved the wobbly windows

It’s doable. Personal experience

Like VRML from the 90s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML?wprov=sfla1