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Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by thesnide » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 2:58 AM UTC

TacticalCoder wrote: post #48

kentonv wrote: post #28

Heh, of all arguably-valid definitions of "LAN Party" I think this one is as far away from mine as you can get. Traditional LAN party: Everyone brings their computers to one place to connect via a LAN, where they play games, swap files, demo stuff to each other, etc. My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them. Nobody brings their own. The point is to i…

> My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them. I had many computers but not that many. Most friends would bring their own PCs. Countless hours on Half-Life maps and mods, pre Counter-Strike. Then the Counter-Strike beta came out and that became our (full) life! We'd also play Warcraft II on our LAN. Now... Warcraft II wasn't meant to be played over the…

did you try ipxwrapper?

https://www.solemnwarning.net/ipxwrapper/

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by hammyhavoc » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:41 AM UTC

scottlamb wrote: post #170

fwipsy wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CRTs have to maintain a near-vacuum inside IIRC. So it's probably a matter of safety to make them strong; if they're too delicate and get mishandled, they implode and some hapless consumer gets a face full of glass.

Wouldn't imploding rather than exploding prevent the face full of glass? But I suppose it has to be pretty strong to maintain that vacuum even if they assumed no one ever touched, moved, or got near it.

CRTs implode—and then glass flies out at high velocity.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by hammyhavoc » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:42 AM UTC

omnicognate wrote: post #74

CursedSilicon wrote: post #49

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"We're going to write paragraphs about how cool this project is but also it's all on the LAN and it's invite-only so don't ask"

Read the manifesto, linked there and in the comments here. Its entire membership is 19 close friends and they won't let anyone new join who hasn't already been friends with one of them for at least 10 years. They're just sharing the idea because they like what they've built and think other people could have fun building something similar. It's like a treehouse enthusiast putting some pictures of the cool treehouse th…

I didn't think there were others doing this out there, but yes, do this for sure. It's a lot of fun. Write about it too. I'm going to write up ours.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by hammyhavoc » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:42 AM UTC

jasonm23 wrote: post #181

fc417fc802 wrote: post #134

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Probably because I'm in the same camp as the person you originally responded to. It's an intriguing project and clearly a lot of effort has gone into it so I'm left wondering about how it's being used. If I were going to build something similar (as they advocate) what might I use it for? > around half of the people on the LAN have thermal receipt printers with open access, for printing out quips or jokes on each othe…

You might just want to look at setting up a friends only WireGuard, or Tailscale network.

NetBird is also worth a look—FOSS and can be self-hosted.