It’s not a popular answer but you can get by with an older PC running Linux KVM. Windows 11 is fine as a guest OS, unless you need kernel level DRM from some applications.

Also it’s GPL so feel free to edit as desired. Users not stuck with dev choices like some of the other options being mentioned here.

I wonder how far we are from CI drivers ala Nix that fork builds out to idle hardware like a distributed torrent network. As someone with three out of tree modules in use, there must be dozens of us I’d like to think.

One of the AC I’ve yet to try. I liked the ship play in Odyssey so it’s definitely up on my list.

Funny you mention it but some of the highlight videos I’ve been following for years have moved off YouTube this year. I’ve been using the site less because of that. From what the creators of the videos say, they’re getting hit constantly with bogus copyright claims and YouTube does nothing to protect their content.