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LASR | 11 months ago

Oh how far we've come.

My home internet is a fiber gigabit 3g/3g up/down. Tucked away under the staircase is where my fiber ONT terminates and it is my server room. I have half a dozen boxes running various things. 4 symmetric 2012 i7 mac minis running linux KVM, and hosting various critical services - pihole, home automation, Homekit Secure Video etc.

Then there a giant former gaming PC with 7 HDD bays running the entire storage backend for a whole load of GoPro/Osmo/Insta360 videos I capture. Rclone to Google Photos for back-up. I don't edit any videos. Just there to capture memories so I can at some point when AI tools get good enough just have it generate clips. Same box runs my plex server with HW transcoding.

Then there is the actual gaming PC, a mini-ITX running steam remote play. Has power, a network cable and a fake HDMI dongle that emulates a monitor to trick the GPU into thinking something is actually plugged in.

Basically everything I do with desktop PCs at home is via some sort of remote interface.

Remote gaming is probably the most demanding of all of these. Low-latency HW-accelerated solutions eg: Parsec / steam-link are incredible technologies.

I carry an AppleTV + PS5 controllers to friends' houses and play the latest games across the internet.

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deadbabe|11 months ago

The most impressive thing here is that you physically go to friends houses to play games together.

bombela|11 months ago

what impressed me is the latency low enough to game remotely. This seems unattainable in the bay area.

varenc|11 months ago

what impressed me is the 3gigabit up/down fiber connection. That seems unattainable in San Francisco.

culi|11 months ago

> I carry an AppleTV + PS5 controllers to friends' houses and play the latest games across the internet.

Be honest—you're just playing Factorio

dalanmiller|11 months ago

Do you have a write up on how you get this to work with Apple TV? What you have I consider the dream setup.

throwaway314155|11 months ago

The honest answer is that it doesn't work very well in practice. This is seemingly worsened over Wi-Fi on AppleTV whose Wi-Fi stack constantly interrupts streaming in order to do a variety of things with their "location services".

Moonlight works great (over ethernet at least) locally though.

culi|11 months ago

> at some point when AI tools get good enough just have it generate clips

iPhones already do this today. I'm often surprised how well made they are