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Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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1071 points kentonv | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source

I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]:

> 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!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

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laidoffamazon ◴[16 Nov 24 21:22 UTC] No.42159467[source]▶
This is neat, but as a $NET shareholder and someone with another ~$1m in net worth that can't afford to buy a house for at least another 6 years this makes me think we should significantly increase taxation.
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IAmGraydon ◴[16 Nov 24 22:36 UTC] No.42160006[source]▶
You have $1M of net worth that isn’t a house (and is therefore likely to be liquid) and you can’t afford to buy a house? Where and how much?
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laidoffamazon ◴[16 Nov 24 22:51 UTC] No.42160160[source]▶
I spend about $3.2k a month for a studio apartment in an HCOL area. I don’t even own a car.
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bigstrat2003 ◴[16 Nov 24 23:03 UTC] No.42160283[source]▶
You need to move, yesterday. Yes, moving sucks. No, ideally you wouldn't have to. But at the end of the day you are just plain shooting yourself in the foot if you continue to live in a place that absurdly expensive.

Like dude, you could buy an awesome house in just about any other part of the country if you truly have $1m in liquid wealth. You have options to own a house, you just have to act on them.

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47282847 ◴[17 Nov 24 03:23 UTC] No.42161750[source]▶
What’s this fixation on house ownership? It doesn’t make sense rationally. Stock markets always perform better, easily beating ownership and the hassle and associated risks of managing property.
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1. fragmede ◴[17 Nov 24 05:15 UTC] No.42162149[source]▶
Because you can build things like the house we're commenting on. If that's not your thing that's totally fine, but sometimes people want to spend way their hard earned money on adapting their living situation to suit their desires.

If I'm going to sink that kind of time/money/effort into building a thing, I don't want a landlord to be able to come in and take it away from me with some legal loophole or by raising my rent.