> If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos.
Hopefully I did that?
Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the netboot computer management setup on GitHub:
https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty
Anyway, if this shouldn't have been Show HN, I apologize!
I'm curious too how the planning folks reacted when you got the permits. I would expect Austin to go more smoothly than Palo Alto but that would be interesting to know about too.
I don't really know. I never spoke with them directly (real estate agents like to avoid that...). I did leave the equipment, but the buyer was a family and my impression was that they weren't particularly interested in the LAN setup, so it's possible they ripped it all out.
I looked up the house on street view and they have a Tesla parked in the front yard (on dirt/grass) which strikes me as a hilarious combination of Bay Area and hillbilly. (There is a carport in the back of the house, I don't know why they aren't using it!)
Anyway, the computers were a bit outdated so I don't think it would have been useful to bring them with us.
> I would expect Austin to go more smoothly than Palo Alto but that would be interesting to know about too.
Loooooooool, no. Austin was actually much worse. It took six months! Though it was in the middle of the pandemic, maybe that was part of it.
But the plans as submitted for permitting didn't really show any of the LAN party stuff so there really wasn't anything unusual to react to.