Good. It voluntarily frees up a niche for a better solution

If what you are looking for is a virtual LAN network (like hamachi and tunngle used to be) then I suggest you check out ZeroTier. I had great success using that to easily LAN different machines together over the internet, including the ones on different continents.

Very stable, straightforward, doesn’t introduce much latency and everything you need is provided in a free tier. Ping, gaming, etc - all works well.

You use the website to administer the network but the clients can join just by using the network code.

Let me know if you run into any troubles with it and I’ll try to help you out.

If those are russian-made then one is already broken and the other one is lost somewhere. As per tradition.

[…]Russia will station similar missiles within striking distance of the west.

Both of them?

See if just opening the task manager and leaving it open also keeps the pc from freezing. If so - that points towards a malware.

Additionally you can set up a monitoring software to get the load readouts on your phone and see if maybe something weird is going on when the pc should be idle (like 100% cpu load or disk usage). Pitikapp + hwinfo is a free combination for such setup.

Does the keyboard numlock button change state when the pc is frozen (led turning on and off when you press it)?

It’s basically a self-hosted stream that moonlight connects to within your network. https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/releases You still need any and all software that’ll actually be running on the server, but you can use sunshine either for streaming particular applications from it or just as a general all purpose remote access tool. So it’s like Parsec, only FOSS and imo works better too.

Switched to sunshine+moonlight from steam remote play. Works much better, especially on low end clients. And as a bonus you have full access, not just for steam.

If anyone is targeting the civilians that would be the russian police state itself. The curtain simply displays things, not even actually discrediting anyone. And maybe that should add another little incentive for the russian people to check their attitude towards the government and the state of things. “It doesn’t concern me” works well only until it doesn’t.