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   Adam Williamson :fedora: (adamw@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 11:28:29 JST Adam Williamson :fedora:

   you might be a home sysadmin if: your 'ethernet connection tester' is whatever laptop you could find in the junk pile that's old enough to have an ethernet port

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     Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 11:29:51 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

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     • Brendan Conoboy

     @bconoboy @adamw
     My box of old/weird cables have two of those USB to Ethernet, and one USB WiFi dongle. 🤣

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     Brendan Conoboy (bconoboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 11:29:52 JST Brendan Conoboy

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     @adamw Everybody's junk drawer needs a USB-to-Ethernet dongle 🙂

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     Adam Williamson :fedora: (adamw@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 11:29:52 JST Adam Williamson :fedora:

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     • Brendan Conoboy

     @bconoboy i was actually using one of those but it made for a less pithy post

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     Brendan Conoboy (bconoboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 11:29:52 JST Brendan Conoboy

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     @adamw Oh crap, I ruined the joke. Hrm. Uh. You might be a home network admin if: you have 2 dozen vlans, a pair of redundant 48 port switches, and only 3 ethernet ports in use. Yeah, that's the ticket!