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We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by walthamstow »

rob74 wrote: post #45

> We have efficient heat pumps and solar panels, but it's still a disturbing amount of energy usage and something I'm trying to debug. Perhaps we have too many windows letting in too much sunlight... External window blinds work wonders with that - your AC doesn't have to work hard to get the heat out of the greenhouse you inadvertently built if you avoid the heat getting in in the first place. But yeah, these might b…

I'm putting external shutters on my house in London this winter. This summer was crazy. I've never seen them further north than Barcelona.

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by asdfsa32 »

jamiecurle wrote: post #55

> The cabinetry is just a bunch of wood, cut into fairly large pieces. Maybe a few screws and hinges. Whereas the computers in total contain more than a trillion transistors, each of which had to be carefully etched in the right spot connected correctly to all the others. A trillion! That's 1,000,000,000,000! Really cool house, but describing the cabinets as "bunch of wood, cut into fairly large pieces. Maybe a few s…

> Really cool house, but describing the cabinets as "bunch of wood, cut into fairly large pieces. Maybe a few screws and hinges" shows little understanding of what goes into building something like that.

I mean, the whole place looks like a cookie cutter office block. The lack of appreciation and want for good design goes far deeper.

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by apexalpha »

While I am a bit jealous of the ability to buy a in-house gaming cafe setup for $75.000 there is little in here that is particularely noteworthy.

Everyone that has $75k can buy hardware? I guess the Netboot setup might be interesting?

Giving me MTV Cribs vibes where people pretend to be interested in a particular feature of a house while in reality it's just a 45min boast of how rich they are, broadcast in a socially acceptable way.

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