I would recommend to pay a visit to Wipeout Phantom Edition.

It’s an enhanced PC port that uses the original assets from the Playstation CD and I had a lot of fun with it on my deck a few months ago…

No, I didn’t. But I suspect that there might be some unwanted bridge somewhere which is directing electricity where is shouldn’t and lowering the overall voltage in that part of the circuit.

I had no time yet, but I was thinking to remove the components of that part of the circuit and solder them onto an external board one by one. If I reach a point where the circuit starts working, I should then see if the last component moved was shorted with another one.

It will take a while, but I’d like to keep searching for the answer until it’s found :)

I’ve been self-hosting Matrix Synapse for more than two years to chat friends and family and it has been rock-solid and it’s on a VPS that os hosting a Nextcloud and Lemmy instance as well. It is definitely not really resource hungry for small groups of people.

If you want to try again this route, just make sure that everybody saves a backup of their keys as the messages are all encrypted and while you can authenticate a new client installation from another client that the same user is logged in, some people - like my mother - only use one, on her phone, which is understandable.

So in summary, I’m very happy with it! :)