Where are you hosting your instance now? I’ve been looking into a cheap VPS for the things I’d rather not host on my personal home network.

It’s not even worth allowing the term “woke” any legitimacy at this point.

It’s finally gotten way out-of-hand, even for me. Gen XI will be the first main series Pokémon games in 30 years I won’t be pre-ordering, let alone even buying. First-party Switch games were already way too expensive, rarely ever going on sale, and now we may be moving to an $80 standard. And it seems the main selling point of the Switch 2 in the latest Direct was a bunch of ports. At that price point, there’s no reason not to just get a Steam Deck and sail the high seas for first-party titles. At least Valve won’t brick my device if I hurt their feelings.

A couple years ago my in-laws were downsizing after retiring and they asked if I would possibly have any use for their ancient desktop PC (at least old enough to have shipped with Windows 7).

I installed Debian on it and it’s running Jellyfin, qBittorrent through Gluetun, Calibre-web, NextCloud, and Pi-Hole containers, with plenty of room to spare. I’ve also got some services running on Raspberry pis (back when they were cheap). And an external 4TB hard drive connected to it acting as a NAS. No hardware transcoding or 4K video on Jellyfin but that’s no big deal for me.

All that to say yes, you can absolutely self-host on repurposed hardware. Any old PC you’re looking at is no doubt newer than mine.

I agree, but I think Valve has said a Steam Deck 2 isn’t coming anytime soon. I was wanting to hold out for an announcement, but I might just go ahead and pull the trigger.