I can’t speak to the others, but I have a couple 8bitdo controllers and they’re fantastic. If the aliexpress listing is legit, I’d go with that one, no question.

I’ve never heard of the other two brands, but cursory googling doesn’t sound promising for them.

Fair. I did stray from the “rpg” theme on… Most of my responses.

Will look up Spirit of the North though! It sounds right up my alley

For real. Its high time I replay it, too. Been long enough that I just remember general themes.

You sound a lot like me, and probably get annoyed with a lot of grindy mechanics. Especially when you have limited time to play games.

Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes will really scratch that Chronotrigger itch.

Outer Wilds is also incredible (don’t read spoilers, just go in blind). It’s mini space exploration with cartoon-arcadey newtonian physics.

Sword & Sworcery is also great, and a good point-and-click adventure with an amazing soundtrack. I’d almost argue it’s better on a tablet or largeish phone through. It’s very touch input focused, which is OK with a mouse, but I think is better with a finger (as intended)

Others I enjoy :

• Kentucky Route Zero (point and click with a wild vibe)
• Firewatch (walking Sim with pretty low poly art)
• Dishonored 1 & 2 (gritty fps with stealth and magic)
• Inside (short puzzle platformer)
• Abzu (undersea exploration, relatively chill, but I never completed it)
• The Invincible (more recent than the rest, a very pretty walking sim in a retro-future sci-fi setting (Stanislaw Lem) that kept me pretty engrossed and occasionally worried)
• Horizon: Zero Dawn. (Absolutely adored this world and story. Story mode combat was good, but I just used cheats for a lot of the basic pickup/crafting stuff. Yes, I can take 30 minutes to run around and gather basic materials, but I don’t have that kind of time irl.)

Just a cheap and reliable bucket to rsync my local backups to. I’m leaning toward Hetzner, but was checking out filen after your suggestion, too.

An over-complicated solution I was tossing around with some friends was to set up a cheap NAS at our respective homes, and just rsync to one another. Then we can just sneakernet the drives if we need a recovery.

I’m in the same boat, actually. I’m hosting at home, but want to set up off-site backups, and am looking for something cheap and reliable.

As for the actual process, rsync is probably the best method. I just need to find a good host

I know you can register a google account with an external/non-gmail account. However, you can’t transfer the workplace accounts, or reassign them to other things. Once you close your workspace account/subscription, they’re vapor.

If there’s a way to do it, that would be fabulous, of course!