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Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by Symbiote »

jillyboel wrote: post #145
Symbiote wrote: post #33

> [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 r…

That's awesome! Unfortunately it's all "request a quote". Can you shed some light on how much you paid?

Sorry, by "my office" I meant the building my employer owns.

There were several companies when I searched for "shutters OR blinds inside double glazing".

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Post by mschuster91 »

> The machines all boot off of a network drive based on this image. Each machine gets a copy-on-write overlay on top of the main image, so that guests can make changes to their machine which won't be seen by any other, and will be deleted at the end of the party.

How do you deal with Windows licensing/activation in that scenario? I didn't see anything in the Github repository, and I can't imagine that not being the worst PITA.

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Post by jokethrowaway »

ckmiller wrote: post #185
LakesAndTrees wrote: post #148

I think the thing that I’m most amazed by - and this setup is truly amazing - is the fact that you’ve got a group of friends to enjoy this with. Good for you; this looks like a blast, and I can only imagine how fun that’d be, compared to years of purely solo gaming.

Especially amazing considering that he moved from Palo Alto to Austin. Did all his friends move too?

Plenty of people in tech moved from Silicon Valley to Austin to get a better tax / quality of life deal, even in my social circle. Remote working becoming widely available really made a difference.

I'm in a completely different part of the world, but for similar reasons I ended up with a few friends in tech who moved to the same part of the world - and I've also met similar profiles to ours, attracted by the same reasons.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by mschuster91 »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #200
crooked-v wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yep. The fact that in most places in the US it's illegal to build apartments above shops is insane. That's the norm in the UK.

It's in Germany too, but recently it's become the norm for new-rich people to buy or rent these apartments and then sue the shop and especially bar owners for noise violations.

Not allowing that kind of mixed usage in the first place completely cuts away all that crap.

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Post by michaelt »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #112
kentonv wrote: post #60

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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.

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.

Generally it's fine - in the 1990s barely anyone had a mechanical keyboard. Instead, game developers learned to test their products on the most common keyboard models. That's why so many games use WASD+Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Space and a handful of other keys in that area.

It doesn't look like they're hoping to play split-screen fighting games with both players using the same keyboard :)

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Post by alecco »

laidoffamazon wrote: post #238
sfeng wrote: post #236

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If you’re a Cloudflare shareholder, Kenton has increased your net worth quite a bit. He is one of the few people who is so unreasonably capable he can and has changed the direction of a multibillion dollar company single handedly. It sounds hyperbolic, but it’s not in this particular case. I’m also fairly convinced he didn’t capture one tenth of one percent of the value he created, so I’m not sure how anyone can argu…

As someone that was previously bullish on Workers but now fully disillusioned with a barely positive cost basis on it right now I disagree with this - if anything I feel burned for believing and continuing to believe. Either way, people like me aren’t going to be able to capture even a tenth of the success of joining Google in 2005 or buying a $1m house in Palo Alto ~4 years after graduating (I’m 6.5 years out of gra…

Take it easy. These kind of thought won't help you. It's a rough time out there but thing change. Our ancestors survived famines and war. We should be able to manage this.

And yes, life is not fair. But don't waste it, it's finite.

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Post by smolder »

stevage wrote: post #128
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #100

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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.

True. Only 98% of mechanical keyboards are noisy.

Nope, not even close. Mainly just the ones with clicky (e.g. mx-blue, less so mx-brown) switches. It's an option but not a requirement, and honestly not that common for gaming-oriented ones, which typically have linear non-clicky switches, which can be quieter than membrane buttons, even. I like the semi-clicky brown ones for typing but haven't used them for years for noise reasons. My mechanical KBs have generally always had rubber o-rings that dampen the sound from bottoming out, too, a fairly common feature.

Apparently, based on your earlier post, you bought the noisy kind. That's on you.

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Post by amluto »

ahaucnx wrote: post #85
hunter2_ wrote: post #43

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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.

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

I’m highly unimpressed by my couple of SGP41 sensors, but they would probably work for this application.
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