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by geekman7473 2mo ago
There is a section in here on piracy. That has always been part of it for me as well.
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How to throw a LAN party in 2026(justinbecker.dev)
3 points by geekman7473 2mo ago|4 comments
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by geekman7473 2mo ago
Please forgive the SEO optimized title, but I put together a blog post as a one-stop-shop guide for hosting a small LAN party in your home. I figure that if you are hosting a huge public LAN then you probably know what you are doing, and do
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by geekman7473 3mo ago
Raymond Chen often makes it to the front page here, but in case you haven't seen it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ This is my favorite from him: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewt
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by geekman7473 4mo ago
For now, no. I would want to clean up the innards quite a bit before releasing the source, and it has already consumed so much of my time as it is. I also need to figure out Linux support as well before really "going public".
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by geekman7473 4mo ago
You would be surprised. Many of my guests are professional software engineers, and they still struggle with these types of things. I suspect this is downstream of how streamlined the gaming experience has become in the last 15 years. Most p
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by geekman7473 4mo ago
I'm torn on this issue as well. I have fond memories of the janky setups, but also it is nice to actually have time to play games at the party. At some LANs, I've spent hours and hours just trying to get everyone in the game and p
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by geekman7473 4mo ago
LAN parties aren't dead! Some of us are keeping the magic alive. I throw LAN parties at my house about twice a year. The hardest part, as i've gotten older, has been scheduling. Now I need to send save-the-dates 2 months in advanc
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by geekman7473 10mo ago
TL;DR the author attempts to measure the ratio between native and emulated performance using Microsoft Prism on Windows. His measurements suggest that the emulated performance is very close to native performance. Though I am not skeptical o
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Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite(rkblog.dev)
104 points by geekman7473 10mo ago|58 comments