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People think power over ethernet is so great, and yet when I try to do water over ethernet everyone yells at me.

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2963:_House_Inputs_and_Outputs

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Two biggest worries as a homeowner: water where it shouldn't be and no water where it should be.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes! 80% of home ownership is essentially water management.

[–] SirSamuel 9 points 4 months ago

The "Oh no"'s were particularly great

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No mention of the chimney.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

For "people" it would be Santa. The "smoke" row would be fun.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

lol ring reference

[–] Cocodapuf 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Do you know anyone who actually uses power over Ethernet? Every motherboard I've ever bought supports it, but I don't know anyone who uses it.

Although the inverse, networking through your power line certainly used to be a thing. It looks like people still do it sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

PoE is amazing for certain devices. Cameras (including video doorbells), and WiFi equipment.

[–] BenM2023 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I use it on every phone handset at work... I guess it's the switch PoE not the pc mobo but the effect is the same. If you are talking pc mobo PoE I guess it could be handy if you had a PoE camera...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I use a powerline network adapter to this day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's Ethernet over power

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I know, I was responding to him saying that used to be done

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Electricity in garage, bad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

In the garage is fine, but this is about inputs and outputs. Electricity entering or leaving a house via a garage (or front door), and not via power lines, generally indicates something is very wrong. That's quite a large air gap to cross after all.