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   Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾 (kevie@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 16:06:22 JST Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾

   Could somebody please explain to me why, in the #raspberrypi world, people are so keen to sacrifice their ethernet port to power the device??? Every email I'm getting is a new power over ethernet hat/accessory. For me that is the one port I would never want to get rid of, all of my Pis are connected via ethernet.

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     NAB 🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶:marmite: (nab@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 16:17:55 JST NAB 🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶:marmite:

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     @kevie They aren't sacrificing the port - PoE provides power alongside data.
     Or am I completely misunderstanding your question?

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     Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾 (kevie@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 16:30:36 JST Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾

     • Phil Ashby :marmite: 🍵

     @phlash I'm only just seeing a flood of products in my emails, I was assuming that once you used the ethernet for power that it could no longer be used for a network connection.

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     Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾 (kevie@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 16:32:24 JST Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾

     • Phil Ashby :marmite: 🍵

     @phlash thank you for clearing that up for me as I was really confused as to why you would want to sacrifice your ethernet port, now I know that you don't; you're just making more use of it.

     👍🏻

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     Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾 (kevie@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 16:33:13 JST Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾

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     • NAB 🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶:marmite:

     @NAB thank you, that answers my question 👍🏻 I made a wrong assumption.