kentonv

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by kentonv 2y ago
Interesting! I sure hope that's not my problem because I uhhh really don't want to open up 20 machines to try to fix that. I think it probably isn't the same problem, though, because I only have stability issues at initial st
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by kentonv 2y ago
Oh man that was a good one too.
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by kentonv 2y ago
The new one is a lot more expensive but I might get it.
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by kentonv 2y ago
I thought that too originally! This is covered in the Q&A: https://lanparty.house/#why-build-in
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by kentonv 2y ago
Hmm, that sounds like a lot more maintenance work to me. The way I have it set up, I am essentially maintaining only one PC, in a totally normal way. I update Windows by pulling up Windows Update in the control panel, etc. Since I only have
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by kentonv 2y ago
Monoprice SlimRun cables -- they have USB, DisplayPort, and HDMI. They transmit over fiber optic and seem to work just fine even at 100ft.
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by kentonv 2y ago
Ehh... I'm very skeptical of those streaming services. I tried Stadia once. Played Celeste. The results were very interesting. I didn't exactly perceive latency, but I did perceive that the game felt wrong . As a result, my favor
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by kentonv 2y ago
I have never seen nor heard any mention of fluoride in Austin, FWIW. I mean, maybe I just don't hang out with that crowd. But I do go to restaurants and haven't ever seen it mentioned.
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by kentonv 2y ago
We'll turn on one or two to play games ourselves. E.g. my 5-year-old is currently playing Portal 2 at the station next to me. But otherwise, no, not really. At least not so far. Fun story: When I built the house in Palo Alto in 2011, p
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by kentonv 2y ago
Yeah that's a good point, I should turn off the fans for a day and see if it changes the power use...
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by kentonv 2y ago
Hmm, I've never had an issue with this. We generally don't play competitively but we do play fast-paced FPS and such and I just don't recall this ever having come up. (We had the same keyboards in the last house FWIW.)
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by kentonv 2y ago
Where did the Stanford thing come from? I went to the University of Minnesota.
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by kentonv 2y ago
I'm curious, what are the popular products/solutions that LAN centers use for this? I ended up putting together my own thing. I saw various products that seemed like they might be what I wanted but they always seemed... sketchy.
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by kentonv 2y ago
Yes, Monoprice sells a brand called "SlimRun" which actually convert the signal to fiber optic and can handle 100ft runs for USB, DisplayPort, and HDMI. They are pricey but they work. I haven't tried 240Hz, but I have success
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by kentonv 2y ago
A really neat thing about the netboot setup is it takes zero time to clone the image to all the machines. As soon as I'm done installing updates on one machine, I shut down, run one command that completes instantly, and now I can boot
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by kentonv 2y ago
In 9 years in the Palo Alto house, the only things I ever upgraded were GPU and RAM, and things seemed to work out fine. So I'm not too worried about it, no. That said, I do regret the motherboard choice, and I suppose if I ever resort
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by kentonv 2y ago
I do a lot of biking, and TBH I've had an easier time finding enjoyable bike routes near my house in Austin than I did in Palo Alto. During the summer I go biking at dawn and it's great, and during the winter there are usually 70-
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by kentonv 2y ago
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 ea
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by kentonv 2y ago
Garply had a blockage once and he did a remarkably good job of communicating the problem to us directly!
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by kentonv 2y ago
Hah, you really did the VM thing? A lot of people have suggested that to me but I didn't think it'd actually work. Pretty cool! Yeah I'm pretty sure my onboard 10G Marvell AQtion ethernet is the source of most of my stability
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by kentonv 2y ago
See: https://lanparty.house/#why-build-in
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by kentonv 2y ago
Yeah good idea. We do have electric shades on many of the windows... I just need to rig up some software control of them. I suppose as an experiment I could leave them all down for a day and see how much power it saves. The shades are on th
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by kentonv 2y ago
The cat room fans are standard bathroom fans. At present we just leave them on all the time -- you can see the switches taped down in the photos. I suppose it might be a good idea to rig up a sensor...
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by kentonv 2y ago
I mostly haven't used a mouse pad in decades... until recently. I now have a mouse pad on my main work desk because the wood where my mouse was kept attracting weird black spots. They were easy to clean off but weirded me out. And I gu
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by kentonv 2y ago
Lol, never seen it before, but looking now, yeah it looks kinda similar!
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by kentonv 2y ago
It feels pretty similar, but more chill. Distances are shorter. The sky doesn't fill with smoke for a week every year. The weather is much more interesting -- honestly I got really bored with Bay Area weather after 15 years. I even lik
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by kentonv 2y ago
They are L-TEK Ex Pro X. Shipped all the way from Poland! They seem to work pretty well. Have been using them frequently for more than a year with no issues yet.
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by kentonv 2y ago
> The magic for him is that his dad is an architect. Yes. I could never have done any of this without that fact. When you hire an architect, especially for a high-end house, they are incentivized to make expensive design decisions in ord
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by kentonv 2y ago
The server is Linux but the game machines are Windows. But I am going to try switching the game machines to Linux at some point. I can't tell you how many times I've run into what were almost showstopper problems with the whole iS
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