Electricity in garage, bad?
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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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.
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.
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...
PoE is amazing for certain devices. Cameras (including video doorbells), and WiFi equipment.
I use a powerline network adapter to this day
That's Ethernet over power
I know, I was responding to him saying that used to be done
lol ring reference
Two biggest worries as a homeowner: water where it shouldn't be and no water where it should be.
Yes! 80% of home ownership is essentially water management.
The "Oh no"'s were particularly great
No mention of the chimney.
For "people" it would be Santa. The "smoke" row would be fun.