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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 gblargg »

Aboutplants wrote: post #47

The funnest part of this whole thing is the manual litter box, literally the worst part of having a cat, and it’s been solved through technology (litter robots). Everything in the house has tech, except the one thing that has you picking up actual shit every day. Zoom out buddy

I've seen the insides of those automatic ones. If you think scooping lumps out of a normal litterbox is bad, try cleaning an automatic one out.

Clumping litter works surprisingly well. It's really a minor thing.

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

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Post by xyzelement »

weakfish wrote: post #120
xyzelement wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depending on where you live most cars you see on the road are in the ballpark. It costs about 40k to change the roof on a house around here. So 75k is both objectively massive, and not. I won't argue "privilege" but it seems like both people in the couple have been working for a long time and took equity bets that paid off. Another way to look at it, in many tech jobs 75k could be a bonus (additional to salary an equ…

> most cars are in the ballpark If you’re in the Bay, maybe, otherwise it’s $35-50k depending on how new

That's why I wrote "depending on where you are"

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

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Post by gorgoiler »

I really love the idea of having all the PCs in some place far away from where I, the human am sitting, but I don’t know how to do that. HDMI and USB cables can’t work over more than a few tens of feet can they? Or maybe these are special shielded cables, or sent down shielded cat6 cabling? Would love to have even more details on how to do this.

Also, since saying goodbye to my dad in hospital last year, whenever I hear about people enjoying time with their own fathers I feel really happy. I would have loved to build a house with my dad!

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