Being immutable means you have fewer options for building out specialized hardware support.
With Distrobox you can install any Linux software you could on any other distro. Immutable isn’t the hurdle people make it out to be. It’s just different than what people have been used to for so long.
Regarding certificates. I use Caddy for things like that. Even stuff that I don’t want publicly available. It is technically public, but relatively secure.
I use a combination of basic authentication plus a rate limit so the password cannot be brute forced. And then I have a bypass so that auth is not required on my home network. I think it works pretty well.
Look, I get it, you really want to pay the game. But if it’s a game that might die due to low player count, why bother?
I see two main outcomes: 1) it’s amazing and you have such a great time playing it that you’re extremely sad when it dies, or 2) it’s just a game, you play it for and while and it’s no more fun than any other game you have.
FOMO and hype are extremely effective, but not for your benefit.
I was devastated when Google Reader shut down. I switched to another service after that and it shut down not long after that. Maybe a year or so.
I would have paid for that service at the time.