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Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't
really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]: > If
it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the
internet, find a different way to show how it actually works--a
video, for example, or a detailed post with photos. Hopefully I
did that? Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the
netboot computer management setup on GitHub:
https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty Anyway, if this shouldn't have
been Show HN, I apologize! [0]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638
Author : kentonv
Score : 280 points
Date : 2024-11-16 15:52 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (lanparty.house)
(TXT) w3m dump (lanparty.house)
| anotherhue wrote:
| I assume this is also a CF PoP?
| hed wrote:
| I think these are cool and seeing the NetBoot + CoW setup for
| gaming is fun.
|
| Thanks for sharing!
| lostmsu wrote:
| Do you run Linux or Windows?
| kentonv wrote:
| The server is Linux but the game machines are Windows.
|
| But I am going to try switching the game machines to Linux at
| some point. I can't tell you how many times I've run into what
| were almost showstopper problems with the whole iSCSI netboot
| thing with Windows, only to get really lucky with some registry
| hack that worked around it. I'm sure it's going to just stop
| working at some point. Whereas with Linux I can dig into the
| stack and make things work however I want.
|
| In fact, in the old Palo Alto house, when I first completed it
| in 2011, the game stations were Linux for the first six months.
| In theory it was a better setup because the machines were able
| to use their local disks for the copy-on-write overlay (this
| was easy to set up with an initrd script and Device Mapper).
| With Windows, I haven't figured out how to utilize the local
| disk at all -- so all the copy-on-write overlays are on the
| server side, which of course wastes server resources.
|
| Of course, the problem with Linux is game support. We got a
| long way with WINE in 2011 but there were just a few too many
| issues. Here in 2024, Linux is ostensibly a much more capable
| gaming platform, with Steam support, Proton, etc. So maybe
| it'll work better this time?
|
| Anyway, just another project on the todo list...
| tim-- wrote:
| Have you thought about using Clonezilla and broadcasting out
| an image using PXE boot?
|
| Would completely bypass the iSCSI setup, and each machine
| would still get the latest image from your server before the
| lan party begins.
| kentonv wrote:
| A really neat thing about the netboot setup is it takes
| zero time to clone the image to all the machines. As soon
| as I'm done installing updates on one machine, I shut down,
| run one command that completes instantly, and now I can
| boot all the machines immediately with that image.
|
| There have been a decent number of times when I actually
| did this during a party to fix an issue, or between parties
| just to keep the machines maintained for the family to play
| with, etc. It'd be hard to do that if I have to spend hours
| transferring a large image every time.
|
| Aside from the stability issues at boot time, there isn't
| really a down side. I don't have any problems with load
| times. So I'm pretty happy with the setup.
| f1shy wrote:
| How much does it cost? Probably can only be pay be Musk, Wall and
| Gates
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Nope, USD 150k (for stations & cabinetry):
| https://lanparty.house/#cost
| levzettelin wrote:
| Fake news.
|
| > The house overall was a 7-digit number. Sorry, I'm not
| comfortable being any more specific than that.
| renewiltord wrote:
| You can get that size of home for 2 million in Austin. The
| work to make it a LAN party home is not that expensive in
| comparison. The magic for him is that his dad is an
| architect. The home is very well designed and if you want
| that kind of design you'll be paying more. Especially if
| you want the whole thing ready built.
| kentonv wrote:
| > The magic for him is that his dad is an architect.
|
| Yes. I could never have done any of this without that
| fact. When you hire an architect, especially for a high-
| end house, they are incentivized to make expensive design
| decisions in order to make the house more impressive for
| their portfolio, and of course the contractor is not
| going to stop them because they want the money. And if
| you're just a normal person not experienced in
| homebuilding, you will not be able to spot what they're
| doing. I'm sure I would have been taken advantage of if
| the architect wasn't a family member.
| stavros wrote:
| Not just those, but probably not too far off, either.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| LAN party game room by night, Cybersyn II by day?
|
| But where are the ceiling duct tape hammocks?
| http://octanecreative.com/ducttape/walltapings/images/german...
| xfalcox wrote:
| This is super awesome, congrats!
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| So we have an ongoing debate in the white collar world - work in
| the office or work at home. I am firmly on the "teams work better
| in physical proximity camp" but there are still many better ways
| to arrange that physical space
|
| And this - the hideaway desks that fold down to become a table
| top gaming session, well that could make much more flexible
| office spaces. (Don't get me started on offices with one or two
| desks and doors that shut !)
|
| But yeah, I like it, even if my house has that many people in I
| would probably just hide in the kitchen all night
| lukevdp wrote:
| Love the creativity and dedication to the project. And really
| cool house.
| seg_fault wrote:
| Awesome! The fold up mechanism is a great idea to make it look
| clean, when there is no party and it also saves the hardware from
| dust :D
| GauntletWizard wrote:
| You're living the dream, man.
| renewiltord wrote:
| Extraordinary home! Great design. Especially love the cat stuff.
| I have to say, it's wild that something "moderate" like an i5 /
| 4070 build is so powerful these days. It's middle of the line in
| this era but it's enough to play practically anything.
|
| Also, this is a classic example of the power of leverage. $200k
| down on a $1m home, home goes to $2m gives you a $1m profit on
| ~$240k. Accidental, in this case, but nice.
| somishere wrote:
| to see that upside on a home requires you 1. sell and 2. buy
| somewhere cheaper (or not buy at all) ... Otherwise it's a zero
| sum game. Home for a home.
| renewiltord wrote:
| Indeed that's what OP did. Bought in the Bay low, then sold
| high and moved to Austin, where presumably the increase in
| value is again sufficiently high because Austin prices
| skyrocketed in the last 5 years.
| jgeralnik wrote:
| What DDR pads are those? Are they custom made?
| kentonv wrote:
| They are L-TEK Ex Pro X. Shipped all the way from Poland!
|
| They seem to work pretty well. Have been using them frequently
| for more than a year with no issues yet.
| jgeralnik wrote:
| Thanks, those were the main recommendation the last time I
| looked into it (a few years ago), good to hear you recommend
| them too!
| jameskraus wrote:
| Hahaha, the anecdote about the subcontractor is great.
|
| What a thoughtfully designed space for your family and friends! I
| feel like going this custom is pretty rare, and you're clearly
| getting the value out of it. I also love that you did the math on
| the cable runs making essentially no difference.
|
| Thanks for sharing :)
| srbloom wrote:
| This is super freaking cool. I'm curious how you feel about
| Austin vs Bay Area in terms of general quality of life, culture,
| things like that?
| kentonv wrote:
| It feels pretty similar, but more chill. Distances are shorter.
| The sky doesn't fill with smoke for a week every year. The
| weather is much more interesting -- honestly I got really bored
| with Bay Area weather after 15 years. I even like the heat in
| the summer, in short intervals. There are enough tech people
| here to be interesting, but not enough that a random person you
| meet on the street is likely to be in tech.
|
| One thing I appreciate is that there is tons of _building_
| happening. Housing prices went up during the pandemic, but
| there is new housing being built everywhere you look, and as a
| result the prices are now going _down_ quite a bit! (Which I 'm
| fine with, even as a homeowner, because I wasn't planning to
| sell anytime soon anyway and I like to see problems getting
| solved.) The downtown skyline keeps changing -- the tallest
| tower when I arrived is now hardly notable!
|
| All that said I'm not sure I personally am very affected by
| where I live. When I moved from Minneapolis to the Bay Area,
| people asked me if it was a culture shock, but all I really
| noticed was less snow and more left turn lanes...
| iwontberude wrote:
| Having lived in the Midwest, Texas and Bay Area I can soundly
| say there is no comparison which can be made about the
| natural splendor. Bay Area, even with smoke in the air for a
| week, is orders of magnitude more comfortable and
| interesting. In Texas people cloister into giant houses and
| say goodbye to enjoying nature, it's really sad that people
| prefer such a reality. It lets them forget just how grand a
| world there is worth saving and fighting for instead of
| letting it all become privatized and exploited unsustainably.
| kentonv wrote:
| I do a lot of biking, and TBH I've had an easier time
| finding enjoyable bike routes near my house in Austin than
| I did in Palo Alto. During the summer I go biking at dawn
| and it's great, and during the winter there are usually
| 70-degree days regularly enough.
|
| Of course, on that measure, Minneapolis blows both of them
| out of the water -- at least during the half of the year
| when biking is enjoyable.
| mewse-hn wrote:
| Beautiful house, great ideas, love the stow-away workstations --
| no patch panel in the network rack _facepalm_
| gloflo wrote:
| I wish I was rich too.
| tptacek wrote:
| He seems like he has a really good attitude about it.
| w-m wrote:
| Wait, why do you have the same living room as Bojack Horseman?
| kentonv wrote:
| Lol, never seen it before, but looking now, yeah it looks kinda
| similar!
| teruakohatu wrote:
| This is truely living the dream, well done mate! It is indeed
| crazy that cabinetry costs the same as the technology.
|
| How does the cat restroom exhaust work? Always on or does it have
| a sensor?
|
| Do the cat doors prevent sound getting into the kids' rooms from
| the living room?
| kentonv wrote:
| The cat room fans are standard bathroom fans. At present we
| just leave them on all the time -- you can see the switches
| taped down in the photos. I suppose it might be a good idea to
| rig up a sensor...
| hunter2_ wrote:
| Might be able to use a flipper zero as the sensor, if the
| cats are chipped. Then you'll have data to catch any unusual
| usage, like a urinary blockage, before it becomes a serious
| problem! At that point you're a smart switch and Home
| Assistant script away from fan control.
| kentonv wrote:
| Garply had a blockage once and he did a remarkably good job
| of communicating the problem to us directly!
| ahaucnx wrote:
| I would recommend to use an TVOC sensor that detects smell
| very easily and then automatically switch on a fan. Could
| be a fun project.
|
| Just need: - TVOC sensor like the SGP41
|
| - ESP32 microcontroller
|
| - Electric Relay
| devenson wrote:
| Constant fans are sucking outside air into your house. Could
| be part of your Heat/AC efficiency problem mentioned in your
| post. A timer to run every 10th minute would be a simple
| improvement.
| Symbiote wrote:
| > [High AC cost.] Perhaps we have too many windows letting in too
| much sunlight...
|
| My office has automatic blinds that open and close according to
| some climate control system. The blinds are within the double
| glazing, so they can't be damaged by weather (or cats). The nice
| version for a home would be something like [1].
|
| I'm sure the owner could program the automation so they only
| change position if no-one is in the room. There's no point having
| sunlight streaming into an empty room.
|
| [1] https://www.betweenglassblinds.co.uk/
| kentonv wrote:
| Yeah good idea. We do have electric shades on many of the
| windows... I just need to rig up some software control of them.
| I suppose as an experiment I could leave them all down for a
| day and see how much power it saves. The shades are on the
| inside of the glass, but light-colored, so should reflect back
| a fair amount of light.
| necovek wrote:
| In the winter in a normal European/northern US climate, you
| probably want sunlight streaming into an empty room to reduce
| the heating bill.
|
| Possibly never in Austin, TX: I am not too privy to the
| temperatures it gets down to in the winter, though heating was
| brought up too.
| eertami wrote:
| The biggest surprise for me was seeing the desks with no mouse
| pads (or if you wanted to build it into the cabinet you'd
| probably want to stick down a desk pad).
|
| But I also in my circles everyone takes their own
| keyboard/mouse/pad/headphones as those are the things it's hard
| to adjust to - admittedly my priorities could be completely
| different.
| kentonv wrote:
| I mostly haven't used a mouse pad in decades... until recently.
| I now have a mouse pad on my main work desk because the wood
| where my mouse was kept attracting weird black spots. They were
| easy to clean off but weirded me out. And I guess it would be
| sad if I ended up with a permanent wear spot...
|
| But I think the LAN parties don't really happen often enough to
| cause much wear. In 10 years at the old place no one used mouse
| pads and it was never an issue.
| zexodus wrote:
| > the wood where my mouse was kept attracting weird black
| spots
|
| Have the same issue, but can't subscribe to mousepads. I
| believe that's dust getting in the crevices of the wood.
| hk1337 wrote:
| Or oils from your hand, perhaps?
| buildsjets wrote:
| May I recommend the 3M Precise Mouse Pad with Repositionable
| Adhesive Backing? Dumb name, good product.
|
| https://www.amazon.com/3M-Precise-Repositionable-Adhesive-
| MP...
| amatecha wrote:
| Wow, this is beyond badass. Not only is the LAN and home network
| setup top-notch, that location is excellent too - what a view!
| Congrats on the amazing LAN setup and such a fun place to enjoy
| some gaming with your friends & family. Truly worthy of some
| envy, that's for sure :) Looks like it was a good chunk of work,
| but 110% worth it!
| hk1337 wrote:
| > Normally, maintaining twelve machines used by random guests
| would have two huge problems:
|
| Maybe you did this with your other house but I would have thought
| guests would bring their own computer to a LAN party. All you
| have to do is provide the space and network capability?
| kentonv wrote:
| See: https://lanparty.house/#why-build-in
| syntaxing wrote:
| > Jade and I needed a bigger house, but we really could not
| afford to buy (much less build) anything bigger in Palo Alto.
|
| I'm really surprised about this, really shows how ludicrous the
| housing market is in the Bay Area. How high does your income need
| to be to afford a bigger house?!
| valzam wrote:
| Also considering 1400 sq ft (130 sq m) too small to raise a
| family is peak American... That's bigger than 99.9% of
| apartments people live in in Europe and raise a family just
| fine.
| Tijdreiziger wrote:
| At first, my jaw was open looking at the photos.
|
| Then I remembered... oh yeah, everything is bigger in America
| (especially in Texas)!
| sevg wrote:
| I suppose if you want to raise a family AND have a huge
| dedicated lan party area, then maybe 130 sqm isn't enough.
|
| But I do agree with you. We live in a 4 bedroom detached
| house approx 120 sqm and this is plenty of space for a
| family. In fact, it's above average space out of all the
| families I know...
| RulerOf wrote:
| > I've never heard of anyone else having done anything like this.
| This surprises me! But, surely, if someone else did it, someone
| would have told me about it? If you know of another, please let
| me know!
|
| I never had the tenacity to consider my build "finished," and
| definitely didn't have your budget, but I built a 5-player
| room[1] for DotA 2 back in 2013.
|
| I got really lucky with hardware selection and ended up fighting
| with various bugs over the years... diagnosing a broken video
| card was an exercise in frustration because the virtualization
| layer made BSODs impossible to see.
|
| I went with local disk-per-VM because latency matters more than
| throughput, and I'd been doing iSCSI boot for such a long time
| that I was intimately familiar with the downsides.
|
| I _love_ your setup (thanks for taking the time to share this
| BTW) and would love to know if you ever get the local CoW
| working.
|
| My only tech-related comment is that I will also confirm that
| those 10G cards are indeed trash, and would humbly suggest an
| Intel-based eBay special. You could still load iPXE (I assume
| you're using it) from the onboard NIC, continue using it for WoL,
| but shift the netboot over to the add-in card via a script, and
| probably get better stability and performance.
|
| [1]: https://imgur.com/a/4x4-four-desktops-one-system-kWyH4
| kentonv wrote:
| Hah, you really did the VM thing? A lot of people have
| suggested that to me but I didn't think it'd actually work.
| Pretty cool!
|
| Yeah I'm pretty sure my onboard 10G Marvell AQtion ethernet is
| the source of most of my stability woes. About half the time
| any of these machines boot up, Windows bluescreens within the
| first couple minutes, and I think it has something to do with
| the iSCSI service crashing. Never had trouble in the old house
| where the machines had 1G network -- but load times were
| painful.
|
| Luckily if the machines don't crash in the first couple
| minutes, then they settle down and work fine...
|
| Yeah I could get higher-quality 10G cards and put them in all
| the machines but they seem expensive...
| kridsdale3 wrote:
| I'm building out a 10G LAN in my house (8k VR video files are
| ludicrously enormous) and while it's mostly Mac, where I use
| Thunderbolt to SFP fiber adapters, for my Windows PC I'm
| looking around at what PCI options to get, and haven't pulled
| the trigger.
|
| If you make a decision on a 10G card (SFP or ethernet) I'd
| like to hear what you picked.
| toast0 wrote:
| > Yeah I could get higher-quality 10G cards and put them in
| all the machines but they seem expensive...
|
| Bulk buying is probably hard, but ex-enterprise Intel 10G on
| eBay tends to be pretty inexpensive. Dual spf+ x520 cards are
| regularly available for $10. Dual 10g-base-t x540 cards run a
| bit more, with more variance, $15-$25. No 2.5/5Gb support,
| but my 10g network equipment can't do those speeds either, so
| no big deal. These are almost all x8 cards, so you need a
| slot that can accomidate them, but x4 electrical _should_ be
| fine (I 've seen reports that some enterprise gear has
| trouble working properly in x1/x4 slots beyond bandwidth
| restrictions which shouldn't be a problem; if a dual port
| card needs x8 and you only have x4 and only use a single
| port, that should be fine)
|
| I think all of mine can pxeboot, but sometimes you have to
| fiddle with the eeprom tools, and they might be legacy only,
| no uefi pxe, but that's fine for me.
|
| And you usually have to be ok with running them with no
| brackets, cause they usually come with low profile brackets
| only.
| Multiplayer wrote:
| As the former proprietor of LanParty.com (which I mistakenly
| included in a sale to IGN) I must salute you. The absolute genius
| of the provided lan equipment and particularly the management
| thereof is an inspiration.
|
| I think the lack of any standing offerings of variations of Quake
| is a glaring mistake but easily rectified. :)
|
| It's really heartening to see lan gaming continued and offered in
| such a way that the amount of hassle and setup is minimized and
| the gaming is maximized. We spent far too much time in the 90's
| and 2000's dealing with driver issues, etc etc. Bravo.
| xyst wrote:
| I'm surprised people still have LAN parties.
|
| My lan parties were more adhoc. Plan to play at some dudes/gals
| house, bring pcs/laptops/consoles and other gear, run cat5 cable
| between rooms, hook them up to some shitty switch and go to town.
| Many hours of sweaty gameplay. Piss off the neighbors. Trip a few
| circuit breakers.
|
| This "lan party" has such a corporate feel to it. Almost reminds
| me of a typical work office. Just what I need after grinding it
| for 5 hrs and commuting home for another 1-2 hr -- to experience
| the work environment again!
|
| I'm actually more interested in the dedicated cat walk and doors
| that lead into various rooms.
| deadbabe wrote:
| It's one thing to build a house like this, if you can actually
| host a LAN party with friends and max out occupancy at every game
| station you are rich in life.
| iwontberude wrote:
| Such a cool house, too bad it's in Texas
| echoangle wrote:
| This is so cool. But the keyboard disturbed me, wouldn't you at
| least want a mechanical keyboard?
|
| > Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired -- The world's cheapest keyboard
| at $13 a pop. Works perfectly fine for all gaming needs.
|
| I can't imagine playing stuff like overwatch on a membrane office
| keyboard for $13 when having spent more than 100k on the setup.
| Especially when cheap mechanical keyboards are not that much more
| expensive either.
| kentonv wrote:
| Honestly I've never felt it made any difference to me when
| gaming. I would never code on such a keyboard but for the old
| WASD it seems fine.
|
| That said, guests are welcome to bring any peripherals they
| want. There's a USB hub at each station to plug stuff in.
| TheAceOfHearts wrote:
| I guess it depends on what sort of games you're playing, but
| isn't it possible for the lack of n-key rollover to be a
| problem? My understanding is that many of these keyboards
| fail to register inputs if too many keys are pressed at the
| same time.
| ics wrote:
| For starters, it's a generic choice that's likely similar to
| what many used in school computer labs. No bikeshedding over
| which type of switches to get; that can be a very taste-
| specific choice. I might have missed it but wonder if there are
| any house rules against bringing your own mouse/keyboard.
|
| Edit: kentonv replied answered before I hit submit. BYOK/M if
| you want, nice.
| stevage wrote:
| The noise of a room full of mechanical keyboards, dear god.
|
| Me, I bought a mechanical keyboard but I despise it. Switched
| to a Logitech Keys.
| Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
| Not all mechanical keyboards are noisy.
|
| I use TTC Silent Bluish White switches which produce a muted
| "thock" sound, rather than the loud "clickety-clack" that
| you're probably thinking of. They're only _slightly_ louder
| than a typical membrane keyboard.
| laidoffamazon wrote:
| This is neat, but as a $NET shareholder and someone with another
| ~$1m in net worth that can't afford to buy a house for at least
| another 6 years this makes me think we should significantly
| increase taxation.
| crooked-v wrote:
| Housing price issues in the US are fundamentally the result of
| every major city making it expensive or impossible to actually
| build enough housing. Changing taxes (in either direction)
| really wouldn't move the needle at all. What's needed are local
| zoning changes and significant revamps of permitting and
| approval processes to remove endless discretionary roadblocks
| from anyone who doesn't like medium density housing.
| laidoffamazon wrote:
| That's logical yes, but I'd prefer to see them punished (at
| least 50% of them has a Stanford undergrad and thus thinks of
| the rest of us as subhuman scum anyway so I think it's
| perfectly fair).
| paulproteus wrote:
| OP lives in Austin. If you have $1M net worth, you can
| probably buy a house there and live there. If you don't go
| do that, I think you're just punishing yourself.
| cluckindan wrote:
| No.
|
| The global housing crisis is the result of international
| organised crime owning or operating most of the large
| construction conglomerates, using real estate as a fiat
| currency to wash the proceeds from all their illicit
| business, and (org crime infested) private equity companies
| cashing in on the former situation, pumping assets by buying
| up available real estate just to make it unavailable.
|
| CRIME is the real reason worldwide for people not being able
| to afford a house.
| qeternity wrote:
| This is absurd. Does it happen? Yes. But this is not the
| primary driver.
|
| We turned housing into retirement funds. The median
| family's wealth is their primary residence. We cannot have
| these assets depreciate in nominal terms for this reason,
| and we actually need them to appreciate in real terms for
| people to have a nest egg.
|
| It's awful, but it's the truth.
| kristianp wrote:
| What's a $NET shareholder?
| laidoffamazon wrote:
| A somewhat small subset of my net worth is Cloudflare, which
| has the ticker symbol $NET
| theideaofcoffee wrote:
| It's someone who owns shares in Cloudflare (their market
| ticker being 'NET'), but everyone here thinks they're a
| financial wonk when talking about big tech and finance so
| they insist on making it opaque like that. It's a dumb and
| cringey trend. Just say "as a Cloudflare shareholder", I
| promise you the six bytes you save won't be missed!
| compiler-devel wrote:
| When have increased taxes directly contributed to your take
| home pay?
| IAmGraydon wrote:
| It doesn't. They're just expressing their jealousy in a
| thinly veiled and highly embarrassing way.
| laidoffamazon wrote:
| It's not very thinly veiled
| compiler-devel wrote:
| It truly is embarrassing. Imagine seeing something and
| thinking, "how can I get the government to forcefully take
| some of that for my benefit?"
| laidoffamazon wrote:
| It's not for my benefit, I just want to see Stanford
| grads get punished. I could get more punitive but I keep
| that for yelling at strangers in person.
| IAmGraydon wrote:
| You have $1M of net worth that isn't a house (and is therefore
| likely to be liquid) and you can't afford to buy a house? Where
| and how much?
| laidoffamazon wrote:
| I spend about $3.2k a month for a studio apartment in an HCOL
| area. I don't even own a car.
| tptacek wrote:
| If you can't afford to buy a house, what you want is zoning
| reform, not increased taxation.
|
| (I want both, but I don't want more taxes to solve the housing
| problem, because they won't.)
| laidoffamazon wrote:
| I want both too, but neither is going to happen in the next
| 4-12 years so I can only fantasize about punitive measures
| frakkingcylons wrote:
| Amazing setup, thanks for the write-up! My dream house if I was
| rich would have a LAN party room like this (plus a mini fridge
| stocked with Bawls Guarana). Stretch goal would be a movie
| theater like Brandon Sanderson has in his lair.
| valzam wrote:
| > I miss the old MX518.
|
| Truely the peak of mouse design.
| Sakos wrote:
| This is amazing. In today's world, I'm not sure what's more
| prohibitive though. Finding 20 friends who play video games and
| would be into LAN parties or being able to pay for this kind of
| setup.
| yapyap wrote:
| House, or room?
| djhworld wrote:
| Extraordinary and beautiful house, thanks for sharing.
|
| Do you worry about the upgrade cycle on the hardware? Can't be
| fun replacing the CPU in lots of machines :D
| kentonv wrote:
| In 9 years in the Palo Alto house, the only things I ever
| upgraded were GPU and RAM, and things seemed to work out fine.
| So I'm not too worried about it, no.
|
| That said, I do regret the motherboard choice, and I suppose if
| I ever resort to replacing them then it's a fine time to
| upgrade everything else. Hope it doesn't come to that though.
| wdr1 wrote:
| Has anyone done this on smaller scale? Say 4 or 8 stations?
|
| We have space in our basement. And with our kids getting into
| pre-teen/teen years, I think it'd be fun to have a place for lan
| parties.
| chipweinberger wrote:
| my favorite part is the cat walk with the doors to the rooms, how
| cool! treehouse vibes.
| stringtoint wrote:
| Where is the guy duck taped to the ceiling?
| written-beyond wrote:
| The amount of thought that's gone into that cat lavatory really
| makes me envy your belief in yourself. Here I am rewriting my dB
| schema 4 times.
| ata_aman wrote:
| Beautiful. All of it. I love it when tech brings people together.
| marxisttemp wrote:
| Nice, can you guys help me with a down payment? I don't need
| dozens of 4070s, just four walls and a roof
| mcdeltat wrote:
| Not the best use of resources considering we are in a housing
| crisis. Another thing on the list of things wealthy people think
| they need...
| latentcall wrote:
| Younger me thinks this is really awesome. This was my DREAM
| during Halo 2 years. Kudos. The design, the hardware, the room
| itself. The house is beautiful. The pictures and write ups are
| fantastic.
|
| Feel free to ignore the next part of my comment:
|
| Current me with lived experiences and knowledge of the world
| thinks it's a little disgusting. I don't think it's your fault,
| or you're intending to do that. I don't think YOU'RE disgusting.
| Just flaunting wealth in your own nerdy gamer way which many
| wealthy people are wont to do. I don't blame you. If I could
| afford a 7 figure house and 150k for an adult playhouse I don't
| think I'd say no. The computer hardware alone being outdated and
| turning into e-waste soon enough while people including children
| sleep and starve in the streets just rubs me the wrong way.
|
| Anybody remember Rich Kids of IG?
|
| Anyway. I wouldn't feel right with myself if I didn't say
| something. I don't think you did anything wrong, you are a
| product of your environment as am I. I won't check responses to
| this comment just putting it out there is enough for me. Enjoy
| your LAN parties dude!
| nivethan wrote:
| > I wouldn't feel right with myself if I didn't say something.
|
| Many people live with not feeling right with themselves.
| r1ch wrote:
| How did you deal with the length of the USB and display cables? I
| thought after 5m or so things would start falling apart. Are
| there active extenders and can they can handle 240+ Hz?
| kentonv wrote:
| Yes, Monoprice sells a brand called "SlimRun" which actually
| convert the signal to fiber optic and can handle 100ft runs for
| USB, DisplayPort, and HDMI. They are pricey but they work.
|
| I haven't tried 240Hz, but I have successfully run 7680x2160
| wide screen at 120Hz (using HDMI), and 4k144Hz (using
| DisplayPort).
| slumberlust wrote:
| Not OP, but he website addresses this:
| https://lanparty.house/#cable-latency
| asn007 wrote:
| That's a sweet LAN setup you've got! The only few things that rub
| me the wrong way is the choice of peripherals and the lack of
| headsets. Must be pretty noisy in here!
|
| The tabletops also seems a bit too thin and wiggly for my taste,
| but, honestly, for LAN parties with chill people you personally
| know -- it's ok
|
| As for the actual host setup with a singular disk image -- great
| job! LAN gaming centres do something similar with their setups,
| with some differences (a lot of centres either use Windows-based
| diskless solutions that mount vhdx files as drives remotely over
| iSCSI, or use ZFS-based snapshotting, which is my personal
| favourite)
|
| But all in all, seems like my dream house :)
|
| I own a chain of LAN gaming centres, so the feedback is
| definitely skewered into the business perspective quite a bit
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