He looks like he's [REDACTED]™fun little #Mastodon network nerd dork special talk time about a #Steamdeck and 4 seconds of jitter that drove me absolutely insane:
for more than fucking year i've stopped doing Moonlight/Sunshine to my #Steamdeck from my gaming rig cuz it started doing these microstutters every 30 seconds and i could not figure out what it was.
I went insane installing Apollo vs Sunshine, virtual device drivers, switching to a hdmi virtual display dongle, tweaking Steam network settings, etc.
Eventually I gave up because I started playing some non-AAA games natively on the deck so the need stopped arising for Moonlight.
But now since Death Stranding 2 is out I decided to try again.... and it was still doing it
I kept thinking it was the Deck wifi or something scanning every 30 seconds so just was doing all this crap.
then I finally wondered if it wasn't just the deck but everything in the house.
So I watched my whole house traffic and noticed a similar tiny bit of network activity happening every 30 seconds to a few devices.
I thought maybe home assistant, etc. but nothing i powered down was changing anything.
so i put the full wireshark client on my deck and did a 90 second long capture to get 3 events and finally fucking got i and it was not remotely anything i would have expected
*every 30 seconds there was an ARP flood across two entire fucking subnets from my Blue Iris NVR server*
it was just hitting every fucking IP in the range, so like 500+ going "HELLO????????"
why?
over a year ago i swapped a camera for another one and never disabled the old camera in Blue Iris; i just hid it. i think maybe i thought i would swap the cameras back or something.
so for over a year, every 30 seconds Blue Iris was going "WHERE IS THIS CAMERA? HELLO????" and fucking flooding the network with these tiny requests that were unnoticeable unless you were trying to stream a game since that required a constant 0 interruption network connection because of frame rate and refresh rate matching shit.
I disabled the camera properly and now everything is back to full smooth glory. So time to fight death with my baby.
so TMYK: Disable your cameras properly in BlueIris or it will become a little scanning bitch