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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.

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[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

I use a powerline network adapter to this day

[-] null@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

That's Ethernet over power

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

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

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