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    [–] [email protected] 74 points 6 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    "The elders of the Internet...know my name?!"

    [–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    I remember one Christmas dinner one of my aunties asked about iCloud and how are they "storing pictures n stuff inside clouds now?" (physical clouds!)

    Everyone immediately looks at me and most of them probably didn't believe me when I said it's just a marketing term for storing your data on a companies "computer"/server.

    My family is mostly tech illiterate, but still call me paranoid when I tell them the actual truth behind the tech they're putting their trust in.

    [–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The cloud is just someone else’s computer that you neither own nor control.

    [–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Or - hear me out - or it is a bit of cotton on the end of an Ethernet cable.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    That's the stuff the elites don't want you to know

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    Jokes on them, the Covenant have broken long ago

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    Exactly should've replaced the fluff with quite literally someone else's computer.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    That patch panel is a thing of beauty from the front, I'll bet it looks even better ~~walking away~~ from the back

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    Not bad work, I'd use Velcro.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

    Hell no, even the servers are vaping now 😭

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Why are those patch cables so long?!

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Well when you have to release a patch to a customer and they are quite far away...

    (e: also I have my house networked with patch cables to every room via the attic, some are 100')

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

    This explains a lot

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
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    [–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Don't those blue cables go to various locations in the office for equipment to connect to? You don't have 20 cables leading out to the internet. The purple cables connect to the switch/router/firewall and then one (or maybe a few) connection leads out to the internet.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    It's not the Internet, it's The Cloud.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

    Purple cables go in, blue cables go to the cloud as you can see.