Be sure to keep everything up to date too. Even openssh has had multiple vulnerabilities just this year.

That’s just a direct connection. It used to be common for 2 player games to connect that way.

You can get the roam plan for $50 a month. If you were doing fine with dial-up, then the 50GB data cap shouldn’t be an issue. You could even use the standby mode for $5 a month for 11 months out of the year and will still be an order of magnitude faster than the dial-up connection.

They were free and not everything needs 1.44MB.

Before that, they gave out floppy disks. You could tape over the write protect hole and reuse them.

You’ll never fit the game in the boot sector of a floppy disk if you write it in python.

The VPN is needed for the torrent client. If you use it with the arr programs, you will probably be blocked by anything that’s behind cloudflare.