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“Dad’s laughing, but I’m about to host the most epic LAN party of my life”
Just as soon as I get friends…
Dear old Dad is in IT, and he explains that this is a lot more expensive than a nintendo switch.
Only the “license”, hardware is cheap
Poor kid got a hand me down cisco IOS garbage fresh off the legacy rack decommissioning full of old ass Sun SPARC servers.
At least get him something new.
Could be an old photo?
“I said I wanted Switch 2!”
“Switch 2? What’s wrong with the first one I gave you?”
At least it’s a proper Cisco one and not those shitty Linksys/SG ones.
Unfortunately it’s a Cisco one, so there’s probably recurring support costs tied to it.
Got to teach them about support contracts now otherwise Pal Alto will gouge them with their credits system.
Shitty Linksys, a Cisco brand you mean?
Also, Cisco’s list of absolute bonkers vulnerabilities is not a good sign tbh.They sold Linksys to Belkin ages ago and rebranded the stuff they kept as SG.
TBF even though they have a significant number of vulns, they are at least open about handling them unlike other vendors.
Thanks, I didn’t know. I sort of said goodbye decades ago when linksys was the wifi kit and they got gobbled up.
So you’re going to fix the vulnerabilities, right?
…
…right?
At least your dad is not black.
This comment confused me until I remembered that Community scene.
Yep , that’s what I meant :)
Wtf.
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Edit: it works now, but what the actual copulation is thatI guess I should provide context for people who haven’t watched Community, lol
Well… today I got educated.
I have a couple of 8-port Gigabit Netgear switches that have been working perfectly for about 15 years, now.
I sort-of forget about them. They just work. It’s nice.
Pretty sure this is gonna be a better investment in future and cannot be bricked by nintendo when they feel like it.
@The_Picard_Maneuver Or, alternately, in the 80s if your grandma had literally NO IDEA about kids’ toys. (When my brother asked for a Transformer for his birthday, she called my mom asking for specs and whether he was sure this was what he wanted.)
“Hey, some lady is on the phone saying she wants a 15 kVA transformer. Pole-mount, single-phase. She seems like she knows what she’s talking about but then she asked if we gift wrap…”
“nein papa, minecraft, mineCRAFT!”
I’m doing NetworkChuck’s Summer of CCNA. I know what a switch is now :)
I would have loved that gift as a teenager - I only had a 4port hub, which limited the people I could invite to a LAN party
Dad trying to turn his son into a sysadmin
Lucky.
To be honest, I prefer a switch rather than a switch right now.
