Remote development between civy PCs to save on HW/SW costs

Hi, I'm orienting myself on the game/OS-modding world, and have a few questions: Do you think the following proposition could work? >modders/sw devs need access to specific software and/or hardware to test their mods and sw for a broad userbase >this is expensive, UNLESS >they remote into other people's stuff (legally) and dev/test on other people's stuff >this could be rewarded with a "thank you" note in the mod/sw credits This is pretty risky by itself, although I imagine some would tolerate the risk, it can be mitigated to some extent: >VM with SSH >VM only has SSH tunnel into it, no Internet access >pass hw through to VM, OR >install Steam, put in Offline Mode/prepare other software >give coder access to one-time or single-purpose SSH credentials into VM What do you think? I'm thinking this could open up a lot more modding and coding to people with scarce resources, AND let (semi-)tech illiterate or rich but time-poor people have fun contributing to projects in their own way. One reason for this is that if you want to make mods that work with Steam games, you normally would have to own them on Steam while it may be much more practical to mod the CD or GOG or other fixed-version you have. (Steam games do not let you have access to old versions this is horrible for "deep"/low-level mods.) It could also be a lot of fun for low-level coders that otherwise would have no way to run their weird assembly codes etc. on real hardware.(USER WAS STUPID FOR THIS POST)

>>32360 I wounder what Richard Stallman would think about this. Or maybe you don't care about what he thinks anymore. Or maybe your kind has never cared in the first place. I wonder why that is... (I'll let others to draw their own conclusions.)

You can't even describe this idea without stumbling over the DRM. Let's say it was the least stupid version of this though. You would end up setting aside a bunch of (scarce) hardware capacity that would inevitably be the target of bitcoin miners. >>32367 >your kind Get fuarrrked.

I have the impression this thread is not really about modding but anyways: >>32360 That could work OP. People could also donate money to rent windows VMs with GPUs. But given it’s a gamer thing I think people would be more prone to help if they could do it with their own hands.

>>32367 I am smug and just like the recon/mapping tech. >>32370 DRM is legal to circumvent where I live. People volunteer their hw for "miners" with SETI@HOME and Folding@Home etc. anyway. It may not be a solved problem but it has been worked on already. >>32378 I see it as a potential new social scene. Maybe it would be good for gamers to have that, especially if it also decentralizes and stabilizes the modding ecosystem more. I don't see how megacorps could use something this obscure and diverse. Does someone here?