Doordash and uber eats take a 40-50% cut from the restaurant when a driver delivers the food. Other platforms take 20ish percent if the restaurant does the delivering. I’m sure you could establish some kind of self hosted network where each restaurant runs their own machine that provides some of the compute. It would have to scale really well with such a decentralized system. You’d probably have to let the restaurants individually decide the amount they want to pay the drivers, and even then it would take a long time to build up a network of drivers. I think there would be a lot more problems with a decentralized approach though as you’d now have to let restaurants figure out disputes with drivers and customers when food goes missing and things. Pros and cons, and a lot of effort.

It’s an amazing game for the engineer brained, finally got the principles of air conditioning through to me playing on Vulcanus and Venus!

Okay sure, for a specific use case yes you can point a record to a private IP, however this explicitly doesn’t expose your homelab to the web. I misunderstood OPs intention.

You can’t point to 192.168.X.X that’s your local network IP address. You need to point to your public IP address which you can find by just searching ‘what is my IP’. Note that you can’t be behind CGNAT for this, and either need a static IP or dynamic DNS configuration. Be aware of the risks involved exposing your home server to the internet in this manner.

Hardly surprising that the sales have been soft since launch considering the shocking user reviews. The game is pretty good, but when it barely runs on most users machines people are going to either keep waiting for it to improve or write it off forever. All the die-hard fans who are even interested in the endgame content already have the game.