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[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago

Hell I can't find anyone younger than elder millennial who knows how networks actually work

If you grew up with wifi and online game matchmaking your brain was already ruined

Phones and tablets, forget about it

[-] Runcible@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago

no one has ever truly understood how networks work, it's just varying degrees of shamanism

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

Yeah, going to Lan parties with friends back in the day was always an exercise in frustration.

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah so put this number into hamachi...

[-] fox@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Nah there's probably some arpanet guy enjoying his tech-free retirement in the woods who keeps having nightmares about oscilloscopes and vacuum tubes

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I'm not saying everybody over 40 knows, but some people over 40 know

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

just keep entering "shut" "no shut" over and over until it works

[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can do layer 2 and up. If we need to deal with PHY we're still fuct.

this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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