It’s a cracked version of the game that has been heavily compressed to reduce download size. This is why the installer will eat a lot of CPU resources during installation. While you probably won’t be banned, I would generally avoid playing these games through steam as a precaution. Usually multiplayer doesn’t work normally anyways.

Lemmynsfw uses a custom version that that removes the blur for nsfw images but that’s it I think.

Yeah I meant the intentional degradation. Good to know they don’t do that anymore.

Unlike Apple, Android phones do not kill their battery life after 3 years. On the contrary, I swapped my S9’s battery myself and have it a longer life as a secondary phone for traveling or backup. With the restored battery that old exynos chip is still good enough to run most apps to my satisfaction. Even my newer one is not a current gen model. For me, the only reason to upgrade anymore is security updates and most users don’t even care about that. Okay, maybe the cameras still keep getting better but only marginally.

Voidtools’ Everything for Android would be cool indeed. But iirc androids filesystem already has a global database of files, no? So shouldn’t any file manager be able to quickly find anything in there without walking the hierarchy?

I would suggest not separating the storage from the server that far. It would probably be wiser to run the app with less latency to the storage and accept more latency on the web frontend. In short: use your VPS as a gateway only and put the actual host for the respective app into your home behind a VPN.