I just had my first child and discovering the world with him has really been eye-opening to the “small things” again.

You might want to have a look at parkitect! Its an hommage to rct1/2 but in a modern 3d presentation

What’s a pedalo?

Get a USB c dock

So it’s a hollow half-shell

There’s an actual article on [remote coin-flipping] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_flipping#Telecommunications)

I believe pipewire should be able to do the routing. Pulseaudio as well.