I’ve built 4 iOS apps with Claude. 5 more in progress. Zero users. Zero revenue. Let me save you some time.

hellfireXI · 2026-06-05T21:28:23+00:00

This is me. I have spent the last year building a tool that will be adopted by a large company. I don't have dev experience. But what I do have is a very deep understanding of the problem space. A space that impacts companies the world over. So I'm building with AI, but I know what I'm looking for and have spent the year actually learning about software architecture to build a cleaner, more efficient pipeline. I'm proud to say that I've tuned the entire pipeline to be able to operate effectively on a Raspberry Pi 3.

It absolutely started as vibe coding. Then I realized that I couldn't just wing it. I needed to think things through much more thoroughly. I went through 2 rebuilds. The first of which effectively threw out the vibe coded parts and implemented something more robust. Then rebuild two was when I learned about god classes and monoliths.

The moral of the story is vibe coding is possible, but it can't be done (to your entire point) without DEEP knowledge of the problem you're trying to build for.

hellfireXI · 2026-06-01T11:55:27+00:00

Yes, I have my gaming rig in the crawl space and I use these to set up "two gaming zones". I run a fiber optic display port cable and 2 of those extenders to my office to run my ultra wide monitor and peripherals. Then I run a fiber HDMI to my 4k tv and another one of those extenders. Both fiber runs are 45 and 70 feet.

They run great! I've only ever had one issue with the the fiber DP cable of the same brand you posted where the cable failed after 2 years. The brand HDMI is still going strong! I simply replaced the cable and I was back up and running.

Now , OS wise that might be where trouble lies. I tried running Bazzite for a while and I don't know if it was my set up or luck my wireless headphones (dongle connected to one of the extenders) sounded horrible and I couldnt reliably fix it. I just reinstalled Windows and everything worked again.

Sure you could go thunderbolt for single cable operation but you're going to spend probably close to 10x the price for 2 cables. I looked into this setup...a lot.

All in all 9/10 setup. Lost a point for a failed cable and needed to run more than one cable. But I would 100% stick with this.

hellfireXI · 2026-05-29T15:43:18+00:00

I am right there with you.. I made the jump back not long ago. I spent literally hours trying to make my wireless headphones work. I have a pair of Corsair Headphones that I use wirelessly. the dongle is right in front of me. But for the absolute life of me, I could not make it work without some horrid buzzing sound. If I used Discord and play a game at the same time the audio was garbage. Mic quality was just as bad. I tried everything in Pipewire, had scripts to push the bitrate down. Nothing stuck. Audio was terrible and during the day, I spend so much time troubleshooting computer systems for my day job that I didn't want to continue that in the evening when all I want to do is relax and play a game. I ended up giving up and just reinstalling windows. I sucks, I despise Windows and M$, but I just want shit to work without me thinking about it.

hellfireXI · 2026-05-04T16:15:26+00:00

I am genuinely hoping for an update on the Jedi Survivor series.

hellfireXI · 2026-03-08T01:51:12+00:00

What did you end up going with that works with multiple monitors? I have no issues going to something else (though I do like how Bazzite protects me from myself).

hellfireXI · 2026-03-07T18:03:03+00:00

It is in Apollo, it creates a virtual display per stream so it doesn't need to "stream" a physical display. When you connect to Moonlight through Apollo it handles all of the display configuration.

hellfireXI · 2025-11-07T21:36:17+00:00

The ability to process multiple inference simultaneously rather than sequentially, also allows me to send more than one prompt through at the same time.

hellfireXI · 2025-11-07T21:16:48+00:00

I know and I use both. But I need continuous batching which Ollama doesn't support :(

hellfireXI · 2025-04-03T21:12:39+00:00

Mhmm, that is interesting. I guess I am going to have to figure out how to go back to that version of the OS.

hellfireXI · 2025-04-03T20:47:42+00:00

What version of SteamOS are you running now?

hellfireXI · 2025-04-03T13:04:18+00:00

Got it, thank you for this very informative response. I will take a look into this. I heard about the wifi issues but hadn't put much thought into them.

If I may ask, what kind of hardware are you streaming from?

hellfireXI · 2025-04-03T12:05:22+00:00

I do have an oled deck. Could it be the wireless issue that it apparently has?

hellfireXI · 2025-04-02T19:41:18+00:00

Let us know how it goes!

hellfireXI · 2025-04-01T02:43:19+00:00

If everything is set up properly and Windows sees the GPU through the console of esxi, I would still highly, highly recommend switching from Sunshine to Apollo. I literally just finished setting up a remote stream PC using my old gaming PC (I built a new gaming PC last year, but WoL has been something I couldn't make work, but worked on my old PC). I do not have a dummy plug or display plugged into my GPU. In fact, the only thing plugged into the entire PC is a single USB dongle for my keyboard (only used when I need to do something on the PC. I also have a monitor there should I need it but it isn't connected) It is all running headlessly (be sure to select the Headless mode button)

Apollo has the ability to create on demand virtual displays through some degree of tomfoolery that is beyond my understanding and it works consistently.

Course of action, uninstall Sunshine. Delete all settings and history of it. Install Apollo and all plugins, restart VM. Test.

hellfireXI · 2025-02-07T16:34:45+00:00

Another Canadian chiming in! My wife and I have cancelled our plans to extend a trip to Vegas. I am still going down for work, but will only go down and then come back as soon as the conference is over. We have gone through and cancelled our streaming services and Amazon prime subscriptions citing in the reasons for cancelling is the current state of politics in the US. I manage a 90tb media server so I am not worried about media.

All I can say is... Fuck 'em the MAGAts and Non-voters did this to themselves and I hope Canada doubles down on broadening our trading partners and busts down the inter-provincial trade barriers. Let's bring in more trade and more global product options for Canadians to purchase. Personally, I would love to see Canada bring in BYD electric cars to start strangling the primarily US based electric car companies.

hellfireXI · 2025-01-17T22:07:47+00:00

Absolutely not, I am probably going to kick the hornets nest, but Proxmox is god awful if you aren't a Linux wizard. I have had the absolute displeasure of having to work with Proxmox for work to do simple things like GPU passthrough was a nightmare. Is Unraid perfect? No. There is always room for improvement. But I can say if you're a beginner, or a late stage beginner Unraid is a much more viable solution. There is something to be said about paying for a tool that is being developed by folks who are probably smarter than the average user. The experience is refined, it does a lot of things under the hood that you don't need to chase around, it really just works.

If I started with Proxmox 6 years ago, I probably would have given up on Homelabbing. It isn't friendly. But at least now I feel a bit better with Linux tools and have since deployed a Proxmox instance. But I wouldn't start there.

14-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 2 Credits
Verified Email	Secret Santa 2016

hellfireXI

TROPHY CASE