[12:53] <_< ... >_> be care there's a monday out there just waiting to get you [13:30] shhhh! it's sight is based on movement. if you stay perfectly still, it won't see you. [13:31] i hear it can smell fear... [16:30] :D [16:30] i thought i'd seen it all, then i saw my Uncle's church setup... [16:31] imagine if you will, an upstairs room for distracting kids of church-goers - where in a cupboard with no movement of air, 2 ISP supplied routers sit, each on 60 Mb broadband services... then to one side, _4_ powerline adapters plugged into a power strip all in a row, the intent being for them to service 4 other locations point-to-point [16:33] toasty [16:35] funny you say that, as the one length of network cable i saw tacked into the big cheese's office swung low into her room heater and was melted [16:35] plasticky whiff like a true network cabinet [17:13] "4 powerline adapters plugged into a power strip all in a row" /o\ [17:20] i think that makes it a packet strip :-) [17:24] xD [21:02] bonus points if they later put in a network with poe so the network is for power and the power lines are for data. that'll confuse the pfy some point down the road :-) [21:04] *zap* [21:32] * zxmpi licks cable... tastes like ipv6 [21:48] heh i wonder when our main ISP will ever adopt that [21:48] honestly it's just a complication though from my point of view, so no concerns for now [21:49] i've always thought that phone company if smart could have sold a service to the home of a backup battery that would be trickle charged by phone network and give 2-3 days power for a light, radio and recharge a few phones [21:50] could be a nice little earner [21:50] especially for remote rural areas where power cuts can be regular in winter and last days or weeks [21:56] i see they made a laptop for ocd folk :-P https://boingboing.net/2021/09/10/laptop-with-an-ortholinear-keyboard.html [22:24] crikey [22:26] might make it theft proof :-) [22:27] a European with an AZERTY was trying to explain their pain of not having + and - keys on the number row, recently [22:27] but those laptops are usually a few quid cheaper. :-) [22:28] they're the dogs milk of laptops :-)