Ugh.

The simplest and most pragmatic option.

How is this a “Glass House” situation?

What I came to post.

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Just flipping through…this person is either not a seasoned “Software Developer”, or possibly self-titled.

All of the confusions and problems described here would immediately be identified by someone who has experience in building and debugging software. The logic is confounding.

Why a dev who had moved to MacOS would even need a justification to just then move to Linux is also very confusing.

LiveUSB of whatever Linux, makenfreensoace on this SSD, create a filesystem, mount it, install game, run it.

Or just shrink whatever partition is on the SSD and dual boot Linux.

The closest you’re probably going to get to a half decent looking WYSIWYG editor is something templatized top to bottom. Odoo, Ghost…things like that.

They have opened the kernel modules, because they pretty much had to get higher datacenter infiltration for inference work.

The userspace stuff for gaming is still closed though. Nouveau is still years away from even being useful for gaming in this way, though Nvidia could quickly move that along easily if they wanted.

You probably only want to use the websocket as a control point, and have another socket open to receive an audio as passthrough? Pretty sure that’s how Sonos et al do it. More lightweight, and you don’t have to worry about overruns like you’re dealing with now perhaps.

It’s to say without more specifics, but you’d only be getting up to 64MB max on the P4.

What audio are you streaming to the device exactly? Are you using any offloading? What’s the memory until on your current project?

I’m not sure what kind of lagging you’re talking about, but these devices are meant to be anything but responsive or real-time. Thinking of some audio applications I’ve run on a few, and they all have that 250ms sort of lag when dealing with audio operations. I’ve never dug deeper into myself.

Yeah, so where are you seeing that I’m somehow making them a cohesive situation?

Then you’re not understanding what I said. Can’t help you there.

Edit: are you confused on what the word “or” means, perhaps, or is it the Oxford Comma?

I’m not sure what you’re thinking is nuanced. They’re complete separate and distinct ideas.

As others have pointed out, I think you should read the context of what OP is saying.

Had, then lost. Thinking about a lost time. Literally the title.

You’re just describing a subjective way to process feelings.

Essentially, you’re just describing a feeling of “Better Times”, or nostalgia. Nothing wrong with that, and everyone has those feelings.

It becomes a problem when people tend to fixate on that, and not realize that time has passed. Not that you can’t create those conditions and feelings again, but that life circumstances and everything else really make it impossible to replicate that same thing again realistically.

I think it may serve you better to focus on what about that situation made it great for you, and what practical means you have to create a similar social circle again that will approximate those same feelings. It won’t be exactly the same, of course, but it sounds like you have just been feeling somewhat lost without a similar group of people around you.

Again, that’s not a meme, that’s Propaganda. Also, apparently, Libel.

“Fuck you, Ted.” Something everyone can agree on.

Bud…been doing this for 20 years. Don’t need your explainer.

The fact you didn’t mention the barest of minimums in your comment if where the issue lies. You’re just adding stacks on stacks of things by using any other network mount and having the user manage an encrypted image inside that mount. Also absent from what you were trying to explain. I’d work on that.

Point being, for a multi-user/tenant utility like OP is asking for, there are better tools for the job, of which I just named a couple standalone options. If they are running TrueNAS, Synology, or QNAP, or even NextCloud, there are already built-ins for this purpose, and apps to match.

If not, any of the other solutions I mentioned are much better suited for the use-case, especially, and if not only because, OP specifically said they DID NOT want exactly what you’re describing.