lanparty.house

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lan party house

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lanparty.house

A(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

lanparty.house

#lan party#netboot#gaming house#iscsi

1,117points
381comments
#5of 3,515 in 2024
Top 1%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

51 positive, 61 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 8 critical, out of 127 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.

Design: 19 for, 3 againstIdea: 10 for, 3 againstExecution: 5 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

Objections

  • Doubts about netboot stability at startup

    From 1 comment
    • 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…
      kentonv on HN

Questions

  • Why not use a standard PC setup instead of netboot

    From 1 comment
    • Given it's only 20 pcs, I might have just opted for fully local machines with a basic disk overlay software with exceptions for where Steam and Epic live. Course, engineering a…
      9x39 on HN

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