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xkcd #2963: House Inputs and Outputs (xkcd.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (5 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] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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...

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