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

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

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The “Oh no”'s were particularly great

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No mention of the chimney.

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For “people” it would be Santa. The “smoke” row would be fun.

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lol ring reference

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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.

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

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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…

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I use a powerline network adapter to this day

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That’s Ethernet over power

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

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