This kind of question comes up in many areas. And which software you use is less critical compared to politics. Of course you can use google and advocate foss, if your question is to be taken literally. It would not be the best thing you could do, but what would even be the best thing? Using software is not helping anyone (exept for software that takes your data or mines crypto while you use it or something). You would need to donate, contribute or bring people to do these things to really help the software/devs. Use which software/service you are comfortable with using.

You didn’t blindly upgrade to the next Pi. Not upgrading or upgrading to something you know meets your demands are the right things to do. I assume upgrading to a Pi 5 is not that for most people

It was doable, but it isn’t fine tuned. The movement speed is probably strange compared to the original arcades. https://github.com/narshee/Stacker-arcade

Should be easy enough to program a cli game of this. I’ll look into it and update if I should finish something.

I always thought Cloudflare could become shit by itself. I never thought about someone like Google buying them. Governments wouldn’t allow such a monopoly, right, right? oh shit

What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?

ALSA; low level, not really recommended to use directly. JACK; professional audio. GStreamer; idk exactly. Pipewire supports applications using any of those.

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